#252 - Managerial Accountant Earns $1,000/Month Hosting Poetry Slams
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2017
⏱️ 5 minutes
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The road to riches may not be paved with poetry, but this Dubai accountant earns a healthy side income teaching workshops and producing performances.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey side hustle school listeners, welcome back it's Chris Gillebo. |
| 0:10.0 | Ten days out from the side hustle book launch. |
| 0:12.2 | And did you ever hear that old saying about how the road to riches is paved with spoken |
| 0:16.2 | word poetry? |
| 0:17.2 | No? |
| 0:18.2 | Well I don't think anyone's ever said that, but today you'll hear about a managerial |
| 0:21.5 | accountant in Dubai who earns a thousand dollars a month hosting poetry slams. |
| 0:27.1 | Now Dubai is kind of a strange place. |
| 0:28.3 | I've been going there pretty much every year since at least 2008 I think I don't know any |
| 0:33.2 | other place in the world where you can go to an indoor ski lodge at a mall when the temperature |
| 0:37.5 | outside is more than a hundred degrees Fahrenheit. |
| 0:39.0 | And it's such a weird thing because you can literally walk into this mall and see people |
| 0:42.8 | skiing on artificial snow and other people are sitting around drinking hot chocolate. |
| 0:47.0 | I guess it makes sense because it's like the Arctic when you walk into the mall. |
| 0:50.3 | It's bizarre because outside you leave your hotel you walk outside you start sweating |
| 0:53.2 | immediately and then you walk into a mall which you pretty much do and do buy since everything |
| 0:57.1 | there is a mall. |
| 0:58.1 | You need a sweater you need a scarf and you need some hot chocolate. |
| 1:00.9 | Well anyway today's story takes us to Dubai but there isn't any skiing there. |
| 1:04.8 | Instead there's poetry. |
| 1:06.0 | We'll meet that guy the managerial accountant who sets up a series of workshops and poetry |
| 1:10.1 | slams earning a thousand dollars each month doing something he cares about not really trying |
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