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Side Hustle School

#318 - Office Worker Turns $15 Into $500/Month Custom Cup Hustle

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K 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. 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. 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

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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