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Side Hustle School

#291 - Oregon Woman Gets Paid to Clean Animal Skulls with Flesh-Eating Beetles

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K 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! Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. You need a hustle! Share: #SideHustleSchoolShow notes: SideHustleSchool.comTwitter: @chrisguillebeauInstagram: @193countries To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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