#291 - Oregon Woman Gets Paid to Clean Animal Skulls with Flesh-Eating Beetles
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2017
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
You read that right. In this bone-rattling story, a woman earns up to $3,000/month cleaning animal skulls for hunters and horror shows. She’s bad to the bone!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey side hustle school listeners, it's Chris Killabo. I got something I bet you have never |
| 0:10.7 | heard of today. In fact, I'm going to be shocked if you've heard about it before, at least |
| 0:14.2 | I was shocked when I heard about it. So let's just jump right to it. How would you like |
| 0:18.4 | to set up a colony of beetles in your home? Beetles is in insects, and put them to work |
| 0:23.8 | for you. And these are no ordinary beetles they are in fact flesh eating beetles. And their |
| 0:28.8 | job is going to be to clean animal skulls for fun and profit. Well I know what you're |
| 0:33.9 | thinking Chris that sounds like an awful idea. I would never in a million years want to |
| 0:37.3 | do that. Well that opinion may not change by the end of this episode. I'm kind of there |
| 0:41.8 | with you actually. However for the focus of the story and our purpose at side hustle |
| 0:46.1 | school, what if I told you that this colony of beetles, which just so happens to work for |
| 0:50.1 | free since their insects, this colony of beetles actually earns thousands of dollars a month |
| 0:55.2 | for an Oregon woman. Like I said, you still may not want to do this yourself, but on this |
| 0:59.8 | daily show, I'm trying to demonstrate all the different ways that you can make money. |
| 1:04.5 | And I'm learning about some of them myself along the way. Flesh eating beetles earning thousands |
| 1:08.5 | of dollars a month on the side, only on side hustle school folks that story come and right |
| 1:12.8 | up. |
| 1:23.4 | Carla Brower is a bone cleaner. With a little help from thousands of flesh eating beetles, |
| 1:28.1 | her best and only employees, Carla takes a raw specimen and turns it into pristine bone, |
| 1:33.6 | clean, bright and white. Her work may be seen at a museum as part of a historical or educational |
| 1:38.4 | display or just hung over the mantle at someone's house. In case it's not immediately obvious, |
| 1:43.6 | bone cleaning is not the most glamorous job. Carla spends hours prepping, cleaning, repairing, |
| 1:48.2 | and restoring, but the end result is, well, better than when she started. Carla first |
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