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Side Hustle School

#908 - College Lecturer Profits from 3D Design Tutorials

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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A UK college instructor turns 3D video tutorials into a profitable business, teaching people around the world to design beautiful things.

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0:00.0

For anyone out there who is a college teacher, instructor, lecturer, professor, whatever,

0:15.0

especially in the adjunct or part-time world, I am aware it is a hard life out there.

0:19.4

I got some friends doing that and it's a struggle.

0:22.6

Education funding has been cut in lots of areas, both in the US and abroad.

0:26.9

Many US and particular, more and more institutions are opting to higher adjunct instructors,

0:31.6

positions that typically pay very little and provide no security in the form of tenure possibilities

0:36.7

or other traditional benefits of academia.

0:40.2

Today's story comes to us from the UK where somebody is having similar but different

0:45.0

challenges.

0:46.0

It features a college instructor who loves his students but has grown increasingly frustrated

0:49.9

with the system.

0:51.3

In need of creating an alternative future for himself, he turns 3D video tutorials into

0:56.0

an online venture, teaching people around the world to design beautiful things.

1:00.4

He stumbles upon this project by accident but then takes action to optimize, improve, and

1:05.0

pursue it to profitability.

1:07.2

In recent months, he's actually been earning more from the online tutorials than he does

1:10.6

in his day job.

1:11.6

So, naturally he is excited and already asking himself what's next.

1:15.8

So if any college teachers out there, there is hope.

1:18.0

Listen up and pay attention to this guy's story.

1:20.2

I'll bring it to you in just 30 seconds.

1:26.0

Shane Wittington, a digital art and game development lecturer in the United Kingdom, was looking

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