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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.
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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. |
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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 |
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