#870 - Retail Worker Cleans Up With Litter-Picking Business
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Despite having little in the way of business skills, money, or education, this retail worker turns his father’s side hustle into a multiple six-figure business.
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
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a brand new week! |
| 0:11.1 | What's up my name is Chris Gellipote, so glad you're here. |
| 0:13.5 | Excited to bring you a whole new set of stories of real people out there making something |
| 0:17.1 | pretty cool. |
| 0:18.1 | These are real people with real jobs and real struggles, real challenges, but also real |
| 0:22.1 | dreams, real goals. |
| 0:23.8 | Real desire to make something for themselves to be more in charge of their lives, to have |
| 0:27.3 | more freedom and opportunity and empowerment. |
| 0:29.7 | All good things there. |
| 0:31.8 | This one's really fun today because sometimes the simplest ideas are the most profitable. |
| 0:36.5 | As much as I love technology, I always love telling you about someone who's invented |
| 0:39.9 | the latest app or face recognition device or driverless car, whatever it is, it's also |
| 0:45.2 | interesting to look at something that at a fundamental level is pretty basic. |
| 0:49.6 | That's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:52.0 | But listen, if I said, hey, here's a story of someone who picks up litter from parking |
| 0:55.6 | lots. |
| 0:56.6 | You might not be interested. |
| 0:57.6 | I mean, you might, but to be fair, you might not. |
| 1:00.8 | Another principle of the show is that we try to show our listeners how they can create |
| 1:04.0 | assets for themselves in the new economy. |
| 1:06.5 | Not just work harder for small amounts of money. |
| 1:08.7 | Not just get a second job or whatever. |
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