#535 - IT Guy Earns Extra $50,000/Year Restoring Vintage Radios
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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He wanted to start a side business and put his engineering degree to good use. When he stumbled across two 1950s radios, he found an idea that was right on his wavelength.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello, what's up? |
| 0:36.4 | This is Chris Killabow, your host of Sodosome School. |
| 0:39.6 | Got a great story for you today. |
| 0:41.1 | Great story has some helpful lessons as well. |
| 0:44.0 | And as I was working on it, it reminded me of one of my earliest memories. |
| 0:48.2 | That memory is of my grandpa, who passed away when I was quite young. |
| 0:51.0 | I believe I was five or six. |
| 0:52.9 | But I remember that he was really into old radios. |
| 0:57.0 | His hobby was collecting and restoring vintage radios. |
| 0:59.9 | I used that word vintage there, but of course for him, they weren't necessarily vintage. |
| 1:04.4 | They were from an era that he grew up in. |
| 1:06.6 | And today's story is about an IT professional who wants to start a side business and put |
| 1:10.8 | his engineering degree to good use. |
| 1:13.2 | When he stumbles across two 1950s radios at a flea market, he finds an idea that is right |
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