#318 - Office Worker Turns $15 Into $500/Month Custom Cup Hustle
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
A frustrated office worker “throws shade” on her feelings about coming to work each day—then gets paid for her complaints.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and greetings. Welcome to Side Hustle School. I'm your host Chris Gillibow. |
| 0:11.1 | Today we're going to talk about an office worker who turns $15 into a $500 a month side hustle. |
| 0:16.6 | Lots of people are trapped in jobs they don't enjoy. Lots of people complain about their jobs. |
| 0:21.1 | Well this person complained about her job but actually found a way to make money from her complaints. |
| 0:25.3 | How about that? And in this episode we're going to look at print on demand, |
| 0:29.2 | also called POD. And we've talked about this on this show but it's been a long time. |
| 0:34.0 | Basically the way that print on demand works is there's a number of companies that will print |
| 0:37.9 | whatever design or quote or image you want on all kinds of stuff. In this case it's going to be |
| 0:43.1 | mugs or cups but it could also be t-shirts, iPhone cases, lots of other stuff. |
| 0:47.9 | And the key part of print on demand is that you don't actually have to make an investment |
| 0:52.0 | or stock any inventory for your designs. And the demand part comes in when somebody places |
| 0:56.9 | an order. So in somebody places an order for something then they go and print it, they ship it |
| 1:00.4 | to the customer, you never actually handle it. So this is great for all kinds of reasons. |
| 1:05.2 | As you might imagine there's no risk, you can test out a bunch of different ideas. |
| 1:09.8 | And if it works like it does in this case it can turn into recurring income. |
| 1:13.6 | So I'll tell you the story and give you some resources of how to learn more about this world. |
| 1:17.6 | Maybe get started with your own print on demand hustle. And all of those things are coming right up. |
| 1:27.0 | Like all too many people in the 9-5 grind, Stisha Sims felt that her work wasn't being appreciated. |
| 1:41.1 | Her ideas and suggestions were ignored, promotions passed her by, and she was left to |
| 1:45.6 | fin for herself in the cruel world of office politics. Stisha admits this left her feeling, |
| 1:50.3 | well, a little petty. In order to cope with the drudgery of going to the office each day, |
| 1:54.9 | she came up with a set of quips to help convey her feelings without getting her fired. |
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