Ep. 2980 - TBT: Production Assistant Specializes in Props Sourcing
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Throwback Thursday segment, we hear from a Vancouver production assistant who built a side hustle around sourcing hard-to-find props. Discover how filling an unusual niche brought steady work and new credibility in a competitive industry.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼
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| 0:37.8 | Production assistant specializes in prop sourcing. |
| 0:49.7 | Hey friends, what's up? |
| 0:50.8 | Welcome back to Sight Usful School. |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome as well to Throwback Thursday. |
| 0:54.6 | In this segment, we take an in-depth look at someone whose story has evolved since we first |
| 0:58.4 | feature them. It's fun to go back and do a little blast from the past. Last week, we heard from a |
| 1:03.4 | Toronto freelancer who turned scattered editing gigs into a specialized agency serving fitness |
| 1:10.1 | creators. So they found their niche, |
| 1:12.3 | they found a way to get specialized, and they actually created sustainable monthly income. |
| 1:16.9 | So it's often a good strategy to achieve that particular goal. Now today in our latest feature, |
| 1:21.2 | we're going to continue with a Canadian theme. We will hear from a Vancouver production |
| 1:25.7 | assistant who built this side hustle specifically around |
| 1:28.6 | sourcing hard to find props. So in the film industry, which is big in Vancouver, you need people |
| 1:34.4 | to do all kinds of things. They're often in various production roles, but they're doing lots of |
| 1:38.4 | stuff. And this person has been able to focus or specialize on finding props for film and TV shows. So let's hear about how |
| 1:46.4 | meeting this gap brought steady work and new credibility in a competitive field. We're going to hear |
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