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🗓️ 27 February 2025
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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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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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