#972 - College Student Bakes 1,500 Cheesecakes to Pay Tuition
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
This “College Confectionista” pays for college by baking and selling cheesecakes—as many as 324 in a single week.
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| 0:00.0 | Introducing the College Confectionista. |
| 0:12.3 | Long ago we did a story on a woman who breeds rabbits to paper college. |
| 0:16.1 | Now we have a story of a woman who bakes cheesecakes. |
| 0:18.8 | Personally, I am more excited about cheesecakes than I am about rabbits. |
| 0:22.4 | But how much money can you actually make selling cheesecakes? |
| 0:24.7 | Well, perhaps a better initial question is how many cheesecakes can you sell? |
| 0:29.7 | In this story, the College Confectionista sells more than 1500. |
| 0:34.0 | At $40 a pop, that adds up to more than $60,000. |
| 0:39.0 | In fact, she bakes as many as 324 in a single week. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to Sadistle School. |
| 0:44.0 | My name is Chris Gellavo. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm so excited to be able to bring you these stories every single day. |
| 0:48.0 | This one is called College Student Bakes 1500 Cheesecakes to Pay Tuition. |
| 0:52.2 | It's coming to you in just 30 seconds. |
| 0:54.0 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:56.6 | The organic nature is ever changing and unpredictable. |
| 1:00.3 | Shifting between wind, sun and rain. |
| 1:02.8 | But one thing is certain, this landscape shares its goodness with us all. |
| 1:07.8 | Yard is the delicious plant-based oat drink, made with simple, all natural ingredients, |
| 1:13.4 | and organic oats grown and harvested in Nordic fields. |
| 1:17.4 | Yard, inspired by Nordic nature, |
| 1:20.6 | ended in the Chille burial turnitives aisle. |
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