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Side Hustle School

#769 - Rocket Scientist Launches Out-Of-This-World Tutoring Business

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A NASA rocket scientist engineers her students toward top-flight grades. 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: @chrisguillebeau 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

What's up friends, listeners, community. Welcome to Side of Soul School. My name is Chris

0:13.1

Kylopo. In today's story, which by the way we have a story every single day, it's a story

0:18.2

about someone who makes extra money for themselves, creates an asset for themselves even, not

0:22.5

just working a second job, without quitting their day job, like they do their day job and

0:26.6

they do something else for themselves. So today's story, a rocket scientist launches an out-of-this-world

0:31.8

tutoring platform. Now, like any good rocket scientist, she's also starting to plan ahead and

0:37.0

systemize, create systems, create processes, etc, to where she can reach more people and be more

0:42.4

efficient. Now, even so, even without having a lot of systems or scale, you can still earn at

0:47.2

least $500 a month on the side just by tutoring. If you have a skill in a specific subject,

0:52.1

you'll hear all about all of that in this astronomical low-gravity full throttle story. And as a

0:57.4

side note, speaking of rocket scientists, I want to give a shout out to my mom, Pat Kylopo. She is

1:01.9

also a NASA engineer. She has been a NASA engineer or has worked as a contractor for various

1:06.7

government agencies in the aerospace industry for more than 30 years, I believe, quite a while. She'll

1:11.4

be retiring soon. And we actually have a side hustle idea for her that the family came up with during

1:16.2

our recent Christmas visit. So one day, perhaps you'll hear about the Thanksgiving spreadsheet hustle.

1:21.3

That's going to be my mom's side hustle when she retires from NASA, or maybe we'll see what she does.

1:25.9

But for now, rocket scientists launches out of this world tutoring business is coming right up. Stay tuned.

1:41.0

Tai-Ease Lage loves numbers. Born in Brazil, but living in Florida since childhood,

1:46.0

she's been tutoring struggling students in math from the age of 14.

1:49.9

Neighborhood parents were quick to hire her once they discovered her command of the subject.

1:54.0

Her trick andometry teacher recognized her talent and asked if he could share her phone number

1:57.7

with students who were having difficulty. Soon, her tutoring hustle was earning her $100

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