From "No Skills" to $3k a Month on the Side (Greatest Hits)

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

No skills to start a side hustle? Today’s guest, Chris Misterek of SelfMadeWebDesigner.com didn’t let that hold him back. He went from being in a tight spot personally and financially, to bringing in an average of $3k a month on the side through his new web design business. With no previous experience with web design, Chris decided to start at the ground up by working through some free online courses. Within a few months, he was introducing himself as a web designer. Within 18 months, he was earning double his day job salary on the side! Tune in to this episode to hear Chris explain how he: Picked up this new skillset on the cheap Found his first clients Marketed and grew his business Recommends you replicate this across any number of industries Full Show Notes: The Path from "No Skills" to $3k a Month on the Side New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mint Mobile⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Indeed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠OpenPhone⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Get 20% off of your first 6 months! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shopify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Sign up for a $1 per month trial!

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0:00.0	Here's an oldie but a goodie from the archives from the Side Hustle Show Greatest Hits Collection.
0:05.6	How One Side Hustle Show listener turned a challenging situation into a new income stream
0:10.6	or the path from no skills to $3,000 a month on the side.
0:19.3	What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here.
0:21.2	Welcome to The Science Hustle Show because every expert was once a beginner.
0:26.1	Like many parents, I've been spending a lot more time with my kids over the last couple months,
0:31.0	which has been a great silver lining to the whole having preschool closed thing.
0:35.1	And one thing that is fascinating to me about spending this extra time with the kids
0:39.1	is the pace of their learning.
0:41.9	They're two years old and four years old for the sake of reference, and they're picking up
0:45.7	new stuff daily.
0:47.6	What's weird is as adults, we start to think of our skill sets as fixed.
0:52.4	A kid would never think that way.
0:54.4	There's just stuff they haven't learned yet.
0:57.2	And that brings me to today's guest, Chris Misterick of self-made webdesigner.com.
1:02.7	It's an appropriate URL for Chris because he's a self-made, largely self-taught web designer.
1:10.1	He went from being in a tight spot personally and
1:13.5	financially to bringing in an average of $3,000 a month on the side through his new web design
1:19.1	business. Stick around in this one to hear how Chris picked up this new skill set on the cheap,
1:24.1	how he found his first clients, and how he's marketed and grown the business since then.
1:28.3	And the important note here is that this is replicable across any number of industries.
1:33.6	In fact, I just hit publish on a blog post on some of the highest paid and most in-demand
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