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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3070 - STORY: High School Student Earns $20,000 Making Wooden Bow Ties

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When a young woodworker receives a wooden bow tie as a gift, he's unimpressed… so he learns to make his own and ends up earning $20,000 in a year as a high-school student.

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.

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Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

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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. 😎 🙏🏼 

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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0:00.0

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0:30.2

High school student earns $20,000 making wooden bow ties.

0:35.2

When a young woodworker receives a wooden bow tie as a gift, he is unimpressed.

0:39.3

So he learns to make his own, ends up bringing in $20,000 in a year as a high school student. He then builds this business up, goes on to make a good bit more

0:44.4

than that $20,000. And it kind of becomes a big part of his lifestyle going into college

0:49.7

and beyond. So this is a pretty cool story of following a passion or following a skill, a skill and a

0:55.4

passion working together to create a pretty significant revenue stream for a young person.

1:00.7

And this is part of a series we're doing this year, bringing you some remixes of our early

1:05.1

year's best stories from 2017, 2018. We started the podcast, January 1 at 2017, have recorded and produced and published an

1:13.5

episode every single day since. So if you were listening back then, if you have an incredible

1:18.1

memory, you might recognize a couple of these stories, but each one is being re-recorded.

1:22.1

We also include some new updates in some cases. So without further ado, let's get into today's

1:27.3

about the high school student

1:28.5

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