#840 - NYC Student Starts Barking Business Walking Dogs
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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A busy college student discovers a way to create his own schedule and make $2,000 a month by walking dogs.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | One of my first inspirations when I was writing the $100 startup many years ago was when |
| 0:13.6 | I put the word out that I was looking for accidental entrepreneurs. |
| 0:17.5 | And I said that an accidental entrepreneur was kind of anybody who ended up working for |
| 0:20.7 | themselves starting a business, operating a business without following a traditional |
| 0:24.7 | startup path. |
| 0:25.7 | They didn't write a business plan, go to the bank, look for investors, all that kind |
| 0:29.0 | of stuff. |
| 0:30.0 | And I got back a ton of responses, many of which turned into stories and case studies, |
| 0:34.6 | and then formed a basis for the research I did for the book. |
| 0:36.9 | Now, one story in particular was from a dog walker in Minneapolis who at first wrote |
| 0:41.8 | in and I was like, oh, dog walker, okay, whatever. |
| 0:45.3 | And then she was like, well, I'm making $80,000 a year. |
| 0:47.8 | And I thought that was interesting. |
| 0:49.1 | I was like, I don't know a lot of dog walkers who make $80,000 a year. |
| 0:52.4 | Or at least I don't hear of many of them. |
| 0:54.6 | Thought about that while I was working on today's story. |
| 0:56.8 | By the way, this is Sadistle School. |
| 0:58.2 | My name is Chris Killabo. |
| 0:59.2 | Welcome. |
| 1:00.2 | So glad you're here. |
| 1:01.2 | Every day I'm telling different stories of people who find a way to make money without |
| 1:04.7 | quitting their job using a skill they already have, not going into debt, not spending a lot |
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