#545 - College Grad Shares “More than Mac & Cheese” Recipes for Students
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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When a college student learns to cook, she documents her recipes online, earning more than $1,000/month.
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| 0:00.0 | When you finally learn to cook as a college student, what do you do next? |
| 0:09.3 | Well friends, I gotta be honest with you, I couldn't answer that question myself because |
| 0:12.3 | I never learned to cook as a college student or even later. |
| 0:14.9 | But for the purposes of our conversation today, let's say what you do next is you start |
| 0:19.0 | a blog showing your fellow students how to prepare more than boxed macaroni and cheese |
| 0:22.9 | and frozen pizza. |
| 0:24.2 | Not that there's anything wrong with boxed macaroni and cheese and frozen pizza. |
| 0:27.9 | Just to be clear. |
| 0:29.5 | And that's what today's featured story did. |
| 0:31.2 | It turned into a revenue source paying out more than $1,000 a month while she travels |
| 0:35.0 | to South Africa, starts a new job, and pursues other interests. |
| 0:39.7 | My name is Chris Gillibot, this is Side Usual School, stay tuned to hear how she did it. |
| 0:55.0 | Chelsea Cole was a student at the University of Oregon on the fast track to becoming an |
| 0:58.6 | elementary school teacher. |
| 0:59.9 | But a couple years in, the realities of the public school system started to sink in, |
| 1:04.1 | and she was no longer certain that she wanted to work in traditional education. |
| 1:08.1 | That's when she started to pay more attention to the things she enjoyed to see if there'd |
| 1:11.0 | be any viable alternative. |
| 1:13.6 | The first thing that boiled to the top was her love of food and cooking. |
| 1:18.3 | You see, Chelsea had created a food blog called a Ducks oven. |
| 1:22.8 | The name comes from the University of Oregon's mascot, which happens to be a duck. |
| 1:27.4 | The purpose of the blog was to document her adventures in cooking, and also just kind |
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