Hi, my name is Anita Smith. I was late off during the pandemic, but was able to pivot to

new career. And then four months was able to actually double my salary. What's up? What's up, Nick?

Oh, Loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because sometimes you're nine to five. Just

isn't going to cut it. And in Anita's case, her nine to five went away indefinitely during COVID.

So she did the proactive thing and learned a new skill set to level up her earning power.

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and promo code side hustle. Now Anita's story, this is less of a side hustle spin-off in the spirit of

the series we've been doing this month and more of a wholesale career change. But I want to

share it because I think it's a powerful illustration that the skills and knowledge we have today

don't have to be set in stone. Ready? Let's do it.

My previous career, I was a revenue manager at a big hotel chain connected to the convention center.

This was around February 2020. A lot of groups started canceling. We had a lot of group business and

that was the hotel's bread and butter. We have like over 500 employees at the hotel. I'm like a lot of

people are going to be out of jobs. Maybe three weeks later, most of us were furloughed,

October's when I got the official layoff letter. Okay, so now you're five, six months deep into it.

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