Speaker 1: Episode three ninety four Frugal Side Hustles Summer side Hustles
Speaker 1: for Teachers.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to
Speaker 2: save money, embrace simplicity, and live a life. Here your
Speaker 2: hosts Jen and Jill.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen, my
Speaker 1: name is Jill, and this is our Summer side Hustles episode.
Speaker 1: We say it's for teachers, but it could really be
Speaker 1: for anyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you looking for a summer side hustle, doesn't
Speaker 3: matter what you know, but there are a lot I
Speaker 3: mean for the career path that has summers available. This
Speaker 3: is something that a lot of teachers need to consider,
Speaker 3: maybe want to consider for a financial goals. So we've
Speaker 3: got a lot of teachers that listen to the podcast.
Speaker 3: We've given us some ideas that we want to go through.
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Speaker 3: Who cares. Yeah, I'm like, is this for entertainment?
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Speaker 1: Self realization, just knowing thyself is very important. So Frugal
Speaker 1: Side Hustles we love this series. We do it often,
Speaker 1: and we want to share business ideas that can be
Speaker 1: done as side hustles but could potentially grow to bigger things.
Speaker 1: And we're taking the same approach with this summer side
Speaker 1: hustle episode, but we have a lot of others. So
Speaker 1: episode three fifty six we talk about Airbnb rooms and
Speaker 1: co hosting. Episode three thirty eight we talk about self
Speaker 1: publishing fiction and nonfiction with Kay Williams, she's a really
Speaker 1: successful fiction author, self published. And episode three twenty bookkeeping
Speaker 1: with Kate Johnson. That's a really good one. You'll hear
Speaker 1: a little bit more about that one in this episode.
Speaker 1: I honestly think that is the perfect side hustle for teachers,
Speaker 1: especially if you like the if you're the math type teacher,
Speaker 1: or if you enjoy math more than the regular teacher.
Speaker 1: Bookkeeping is a fantastic side hustle that can be turned
Speaker 1: into a full time business should you ever want or
Speaker 1: need it too.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Great, great, great side hustle episodes. But here we are.
Speaker 3: We're here for our teachers right now. And this first
Speaker 3: article comes from Education Week. It's titled Teachers, summer jobs
Speaker 3: can be fun, but that's not why they do it.
Speaker 3: I don't know that anybody ever said working another job
Speaker 3: after your main job is fun. Sometimes it is.
Speaker 1: I mean it could be like we've both worked so many,
Speaker 1: so many side hustles like this could be the Side
Speaker 1: Hustle Sisters podcast. And I didn't necessarily do it for
Speaker 1: the fun, but I worked at a foster group home
Speaker 1: because it was so different from my regular job and
Speaker 1: it was something I was really passionate about. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily need to do it, but like it gave
Speaker 1: me like access to a world that I wanted to
Speaker 1: learn more about, and it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will. I think this article is just a
Speaker 3: helpful introduction. We're not going to spend a lot of
Speaker 3: time on it. I couldn't totally find the type of
Speaker 3: article I was looking for, so I'm just gonna weave
Speaker 3: in the things that I wanted to say that aren't
Speaker 3: in this article. But they do. Start off by describing rancher,
Speaker 3: Airbnb host dog, border governess to children of billionaires. I
Speaker 3: don't know how you find that, gig bartender, jewelry welder,
Speaker 3: minor league baseball, mas Scott sailing instructor, wedding videographer, just
Speaker 3: a sampling of the side hustles that some teachers take
Speaker 3: on during the summer months, and really describing that most
Speaker 3: teachers are doing this because they need the extra income.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about our poll a little bit later. But
Speaker 3: many of you teachers do have additional work side hustles,
Speaker 3: maybe throughout the year, maybe just for the summer. Very
Speaker 3: few of you are actually just taking the very needed
Speaker 3: rest and break, and a lot of that having to
Speaker 3: do with needing the extra money. We're not going to
Speaker 3: take a deep dive into teachers being underpaid, but where
Speaker 3: you want to see additional financial goals of paying down debt,
Speaker 3: maybe just for a season, what can be considered. So
Speaker 3: I appreciate that they highlighted some of the discrepancies with
Speaker 3: income and expenses for many teachers that unfortunately additional work
Speaker 3: is needed. And I think one of the things in
Speaker 3: light of this that I wanted to highlight before we
Speaker 3: got into all of the different ideas that you could
Speaker 3: be doing, is still taking inventory of what's going to
Speaker 3: be realistic that I think considerations are needed before you
Speaker 3: just jump on Okay, yeah, let me try that, Let
Speaker 3: me try that, let me try that, let me see
Speaker 3: what sticks. I think we need to be looking at mental, emotional,
Speaker 3: physical energy. That being with children all day, almost every day,
Speaker 3: for a solid span of months does take a toll
Speaker 3: on all of these aspects of our personhood. So considering
Speaker 3: what can I reasonably do? And what does my do
Speaker 3: my summer months look like? Do you have children in
Speaker 3: school who now are at home and you are primarily
Speaker 3: responsible for now because they're also not in school. These
Speaker 3: things we sometimes can think, oh, oh yeah, that sounds great,
Speaker 3: let me do it, and then it's not until we're
Speaker 3: in it that we realize, oh, no, I over committed myself,
Speaker 3: so really recognizing that, yeah, I could use the extra money,
Speaker 3: but what can I reasonably do? What do I have
Speaker 3: the energy, the mental capacity, emotional capacity for also what
Speaker 3: amount of supplemental income do I need? And that all
Speaker 3: of these questions can help us to narrow down what
Speaker 3: you might end up doing. Is it a thousand dollars,
Speaker 3: Is it a few thousand dollars that's going to help
Speaker 3: ste you in the direction of what you might say
Speaker 3: yes or no to how big of a bang for
Speaker 3: or how big of a buck for your energy are
Speaker 3: you going to need? And then something else that I
Speaker 3: think because Jen and I often talk about the difference
Speaker 3: between just like a side hustle or a side business,
Speaker 3: some of our side Hustle episodes are talking about entrepreneurship
Speaker 3: and starting your own side business I think that's also
Speaker 3: a consideration worth doing now, both now and in the future.
Speaker 3: What's going to help me now, but what also might
Speaker 3: help set me up in the future. Is it possible
Speaker 3: that I'm considering now that I don't want to be
Speaker 3: a teacher in this capacity for forever. You may want
Speaker 3: to consider starting a side business now that can grow.
Speaker 3: It's part of that like eighty twenty question. It's part
Speaker 3: of that like focusing question. Is there something that I
Speaker 3: can do now that will make the future easier or
Speaker 3: some of these jobs unnecessary? And if that's the case,
Speaker 3: not just considering dog walking, but considering starting your own
Speaker 3: online business might be for you. So these are just
Speaker 3: some of the things that I wanted to highlight before
Speaker 3: we just started throwing out these ideas of side hustles
Speaker 3: others have had really taking inventory for yourself of what
Speaker 3: are my capacities, what is the financial number that I'm
Speaker 3: looking to reach, and what do I want my fear
Speaker 3: to look like? And if there are things that I
Speaker 3: could be doing now with minimal amounts of time that
Speaker 3: could grow into something more that could really open up
Speaker 3: doors of possibility for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, well said, I think if you feel
Speaker 1: like you want to, you know, stay home with your kids,
Speaker 1: or you're just like I mean, honestly, like teaching is
Speaker 1: done for you. You're done with teaching, don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: as someone with children in public school, I don't I
Speaker 1: feel for you, and I don't envy you. And you
Speaker 1: have permission to get out, Like it's really hard in there.
Speaker 1: And so if this can give you the freedom you
Speaker 1: need to start small and just enjoy. We don't always
Speaker 1: need to do work that we are passionate about. Some
Speaker 1: like I think for ninety nine percent of us, work
Speaker 1: should just fuel the things that we're passionate about. And
Speaker 1: so if that's you, I mean, I think teachers who
Speaker 1: are really in it passionate about it. But if it's
Speaker 1: not you, then we hope that this series, especially this episode,
Speaker 1: will will give you some ideas to start that ball rolling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and both are in here. So if you do
Speaker 3: love what you do and you're just like I just
Speaker 3: need a little bit of extra income for minimal amounts
Speaker 3: of effort what's out there, then we got you. Okay,
Speaker 3: So let's get into the second part where we're actually
Speaker 3: talking about what are teachers doing in the summer. I
Speaker 3: gotta admit to you, Jen, I don't think that I
Speaker 3: totally knew how many teachers are working in the summer.
Speaker 3: My impression was, y'all are kicking back. This is your
Speaker 3: vacation time. You're just maybe cleaning your house, catching up
Speaker 3: on stuff, maybe doing a little bit of prep for
Speaker 3: the next school year, and that's that. But no half
Speaker 3: y'all are out there hustling.
Speaker 1: Half of the teachers in our friend letter survey are
Speaker 1: doing some kind of summer job to make extra money.
Speaker 1: And so I'm going to talk about that. I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk about the results of the survey that we did,
Speaker 1: and then Jill is going to expound on a few
Speaker 1: more ideas in the next article. But so some of
Speaker 1: the things that our listeners and readers are already doing
Speaker 1: that who are teachers, And again, you don't have to
Speaker 1: be a teacher to do these, but they are best
Speaker 1: suited for them. So online tutoring, part time and weekend
Speaker 1: bookkeeping and customer service for a local grocery store. You
Speaker 1: can do bookkeeping and customer service for businesses virtually, and
Speaker 1: that is a great part time gig, especially for small businesses.
Speaker 1: And this reader says she does it part time during
Speaker 1: the year and then we'll take on more over the summer,
Speaker 1: essentially getting forty hours a week.
Speaker 3: Again. We've got that book Keeping episode with Kate Johnson,
Speaker 3: episode three twenty. If this one's peaking your interest, go
Speaker 3: back to that one.
Speaker 1: We have a reader who does summer school. That's a
Speaker 1: really good one that a lot of people said they did.
Speaker 1: We've got Instacart shopper and Amazon Flex shopper. I have
Speaker 1: a friend Kevin who trans like his transportation is exclusively
Speaker 1: e bike and he will just deliver like all kinds
Speaker 1: of He's a former lawyer and now he just does
Speaker 1: like Uber eats, grub hub like stuff on like small things,
Speaker 1: not even small things, like he just takes this. He'll
Speaker 1: he'll move his two kids on his e bike, you know,
Speaker 1: like he we have to have him on the show, honestly,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you could do. There's so many options for this.
Speaker 1: We have a reader who cleans houses during the summer,
Speaker 1: and we have someone who worked at Walmart during the
Speaker 1: summers and kids thought it was so cool to see
Speaker 1: me outside of school. This one I love. I run
Speaker 1: musicals in the summer through a local community theater, basically
Speaker 1: making my music job an all year round experience. We
Speaker 1: have one reader whose granddaughter is a high school teacher
Speaker 1: and she walks dogs and babysits while people are away.
Speaker 3: I love the.
Speaker 1: Dog walking thing. I have a friend who does this,
Speaker 1: and it's so easy to just go check on dogs,
Speaker 1: to bring them to the park, take them for walks
Speaker 1: like it's and then you get like a consistent, you know,
Speaker 1: groove going with some dogs. It's a really good side hustles,
Speaker 1: she says, sometimes including the like pet sitting. It'll include
Speaker 1: like just watering their plants, you know, bringing the mail in.
Speaker 3: That's the thing we will consider holiday jobs. You know
Speaker 3: that stores are hiring more around the holidays to keep
Speaker 3: up with the level of customer that they have. But
Speaker 3: also we can think what do most people do in
Speaker 3: the summer, and how can I shift around that People
Speaker 3: go on vacation, So what happens to the dogs they
Speaker 3: leave behind, the houses they leave behind? What a dogs?
Speaker 3: Airbnb bookings potentially could increase in certain areas if you
Speaker 3: live in one of those destination spots, could you pick
Speaker 3: up some cleaning even for some airbnbs just for the summer.
Speaker 3: I think there's so many things that Okay, what are
Speaker 3: the trends of the seasons, and how can I take
Speaker 3: advantage weddings? I can't. Don't even get me started on
Speaker 3: the wedding industry. But there certainly is a lot to
Speaker 3: be said for what you could intersect with that doesn't
Speaker 3: have to follow you throughout the rest of the year
Speaker 3: unless you want it to.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, day of coordinators for weddings. Man, you're not involved
Speaker 1: in any of the planning like up leading up to
Speaker 1: the day. You just show up on the day and
Speaker 1: you're coordinating everything that has already been planned. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: a great like one day job. Another great one day job.
Speaker 1: This reader says she's a poll worker because schools are closed,
Speaker 1: so she can so she can always be there because
Speaker 1: the schools are closed.
Speaker 3: That day, like voting polls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's two hundred and fifty dollars that she'll
Speaker 1: make it one day.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: She also owns a tutoring business year round. She's a lifeguard,
Speaker 1: works summer school, teaches swim lessons, dog sitting. It is
Speaker 1: very telling that those of you who work side houses,
Speaker 1: you're not just working one that you're doing multiple. One
Speaker 1: reader says her husband, who's a teacher, does curriculum planning
Speaker 1: over the summers. That's a really good one. I think
Speaker 1: if you wanted to like sell curriculum. I know my
Speaker 1: friend who's a teacher, and I'm always saying, like, you
Speaker 1: love making science curriculums, and everybody else says they hate them,
Speaker 1: Like you can sell your curriculums to other teachers, and
Speaker 1: she's like, there's too many there's too many people and
Speaker 1: teachers pay teacher. If you are just putting yourself, yes,
Speaker 1: there are a ton of people on Teachers pay teachers.
Speaker 3: Yes it is.
Speaker 1: It's the Etsy for teachers. But just because there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of people in there doesn't mean you can't also
Speaker 1: be on it. If you've already made custom curriculum, why
Speaker 1: not put it up there and when someone asks you
Speaker 1: about it, you send them the link.
Speaker 3: Yep, why not you've already created it. Someone else wants it. Listen,
Speaker 3: there's a ton of podcasts out there. Here we are,
Speaker 3: we're still showing up two days a week. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: You can barely convince me out of thinking that there's
Speaker 3: not enough space for everybody.
Speaker 1: There's enough space for everyone to.
Speaker 3: Be able to do what they want to do. Because
Speaker 3: you represent a specific Niche. No one else is providing
Speaker 3: exactly the way that you're providing it, So try it.
Speaker 3: Why not? Okay, I want to talk about this article
Speaker 3: which comes from the Ways to Wealth. It's called ten
Speaker 3: side hustles for teachers. It's not specifically summertime, although a
Speaker 3: lot of them can just be done in the summertime.
Speaker 3: Or you could put lots of energy and effort into
Speaker 3: it for the summer and then allow it to kind
Speaker 3: of keep bringing in revenue throughout the year. However you
Speaker 3: want to slice and dice this thing. I thought that
Speaker 3: there were some actual, really good ideas. The first few
Speaker 3: I'm just going to kind of combine into one. Their
Speaker 3: number one, two, and five are pretty similar, so selling principles,
Speaker 3: lesson plans. I think maybe even a course was number five,
Speaker 3: all along the same lines. This kind of digital resources
Speaker 3: that you can create and sell, which is exactly what Jen,
Speaker 3: you just said. I just want to reiterate this that
Speaker 3: maybe it is a lesson plan. You've come up with
Speaker 3: a really cool way to teach this concept in science. Great,
Speaker 3: put it, put it out there, put it on teachers,
Speaker 3: pay teachers, put it on Etsy, put it put it
Speaker 3: out there, create your own website. However deep you want
Speaker 3: to go into this sell principles. That's also something that
Speaker 3: can just be done on Amazon. Just any type of
Speaker 3: thing that can be utilized by other teachers, potentially even parents,
Speaker 3: I'm about to get there, but even homeschool families. So
Speaker 3: I can't speak for this. I don't know how many
Speaker 3: homeschool homeschooling parents go on teachers pay teachers, but there
Speaker 3: could be a whole other niche of how to resource
Speaker 3: homeschooling families with some of the things that you know.
Speaker 3: Because you are a professional teacher who's gone through the
Speaker 3: schooling and have taught many, many children, and you've got
Speaker 3: all sorts of tips and tricks up your sleeves, you
Speaker 3: are a resource. If no one's ever told you you
Speaker 3: are a resource, you are a resource. There's so much
Speaker 3: that you have in your repertoire that you could be
Speaker 3: selling online. The summertime could be the time to really
Speaker 3: put a lot of energy gent effort into it and
Speaker 3: then let those puppies sell for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: And you, I mean, you could also sell digital products
Speaker 1: that help teachers become better teachers if they're if you
Speaker 1: have a strength in the classroom, that other teachers are
Speaker 1: seeking your advice, or someone has said, oh, go talk
Speaker 1: to so and so. She's really good at that, or
Speaker 1: she's got a system for that. Then you can create
Speaker 1: something that can be sold to teachers at a wider audience,
Speaker 1: and it can be given away for free to the
Speaker 1: teachers around you get some testimonials. Again, make a website.
Speaker 1: You may not sell anything right away, but you sell
Speaker 1: nothing without a buy button. So putting it out there
Speaker 1: and just like getting it there so when somebody does
Speaker 1: ask you about something, you have a place to direct
Speaker 1: them to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am really excited about this. Next one I
Speaker 3: can't say I've ever heard of this. Number seven is
Speaker 3: being a homeschool consultant. Here's a staggering statistic. Between twenty
Speaker 3: twenty and twenty twenty two, the number of homeschool children
Speaker 3: in America nearly doubled, So from two point three million
Speaker 3: to four point three million. The number of people homeschooling
Speaker 3: is insanity. A lot of that having to do with
Speaker 3: the pandemic obviously, and then people just continuing on. People
Speaker 3: homeschool for a variety of reasons. But homeschool families need
Speaker 3: your teacher assistance. So Homeschool consultants can help with anything
Speaker 3: from creating a homeschool schedule, helping to choose curriculum, helping
Speaker 3: to adjust curriculum to a family's needs, because usually a
Speaker 3: family that's homeschooling has multiple aged children in different grades,
Speaker 3: with different learning styles. That's for many people one of
Speaker 3: the reasons that day homeschool so that they can give
Speaker 3: a very individualized approach to their student. And who better
Speaker 3: to consult than a teacher who works with twenty kids
Speaker 3: on a daily basis, Like, you know how to work
Speaker 3: with different types of kids and learning styles. So you
Speaker 3: could even help parents coach on Yeah you know how
Speaker 3: to parent this kid, but do you know how to
Speaker 3: teach this child? And so figuring out a homeschooling style,
Speaker 3: how to homeschool multiple ag we don't even know how
Speaker 3: to parent right, Yeah, that's so true. How to incorporate
Speaker 3: hands on learning instruction, How to homeschool high school students
Speaker 3: homeschooling children with various learning difficulties, finding resources or working
Speaker 3: with a struggling reader, Maybe even offering some of the
Speaker 3: teaching after school hours if you want to do this
Speaker 3: throughout the year, like a version of tutoring, possibly but
Speaker 3: maybe even handling the entire subject.
Speaker 1: Yeah, become a specialized tutor only for homeschool students, and
Speaker 1: you then only work during the day in the summer,
Speaker 1: I don't have to you know, work afternoons or nights
Speaker 1: after kids are out of school, and eventually, if you
Speaker 1: wanted to be doing you know, throughout the year, leaving
Speaker 1: your teaching job, then you're only working the days that
Speaker 1: you know homeschool kids are at school.
Speaker 3: With a number of homeschool families, this tells me you
Speaker 3: could start as simply as finding a mom group on
Speaker 3: Facebook that's local to you and putting it out there
Speaker 3: that this is something that you're offering. This is also
Speaker 3: making me think of not on this list, but how
Speaker 3: many moms I've talked to who bemoan the summer with
Speaker 3: their kids, and just like, what am I going to do?
Speaker 3: We function so well on rhythm and routine and the
Speaker 3: summer just throws it all out of whack. What about
Speaker 3: preparing plans for just families they're not even homeschool family
Speaker 3: they're becoming homeschool families essentially in the summertime. But preparing
Speaker 3: loose schedules and potential fun learning activities that people could
Speaker 3: be doing through the summer. I can't think of a
Speaker 3: single mom that I know who wouldn't pay at least
Speaker 3: twenty bucks for that. Just like, yeah, give me the resources.
Speaker 3: What can I do on a day to day basis?
Speaker 3: What are some ideas for activities?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 3: You go, I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this could grow into something like we have
Speaker 1: friends that now are part of a hybrid homeschool where
Speaker 1: they send their kid to this private school two or
Speaker 1: three days a week and then they homeschool them the
Speaker 1: other two or three days. So getting involved, like finding
Speaker 1: one of those hybrid homeschools and maybe getting involved there,
Speaker 1: not necessarily starting your own, but like figuring out how
Speaker 1: to get involved. So lots of options for homeschooling.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not done being excited about the ideas in
Speaker 3: this article. Number eight on the list is become an
Speaker 3: adjunct professor. So what I'm learning from all your teachers
Speaker 3: out here is that many of you you have gone
Speaker 3: on to get your master's degree. There's incentives for it
Speaker 3: with payscale, there's some push for it. You do not
Speaker 3: need a PhD to be a professor. You can have
Speaker 3: a You do need to have a master's degree though,
Speaker 3: So if that's you, if you're a teacher with a
Speaker 3: master's degree, considering an adjunct professor role is a fantastic idea.
Speaker 3: This is actually something I personally do as a side hustle,
Speaker 3: and I can attest to specifically in the summer, a
Speaker 3: lot of universities are looking for adjunct professors because their
Speaker 3: regular faculty their employee staff, wants off for the summer.
Speaker 3: Like it's like a traditional teaching role. They're closed for
Speaker 3: the summer, but there's not closed, but a lot of
Speaker 3: the regular university schedule kind of slows down for the summertime,
Speaker 3: but there's still some classes that are going through the
Speaker 3: summer and they want to give their faculty off, so
Speaker 3: they will try and fill in the gaps with adjunct professors.
Speaker 3: There's absolutely some thing you can do throughout the year,
Speaker 3: but it is specifically can be a summertime gig. And
Speaker 3: I will add that because of the pandemic and just
Speaker 3: life in general, there are so many more online programs,
Speaker 3: so this is something that you could even do remotely.
Speaker 3: That is specifically what I do. I'm an adjunct in
Speaker 3: the summer for a master's program online and it really
Speaker 3: doesn't require a ton of live synchronous time from me.
Speaker 3: It is still your grading of papers, being available to
Speaker 3: students minimally throughout the week, but an excellent gig if
Speaker 3: you meet those different requirements. I would say you don't
Speaker 3: get paid a ton, but as I've calculated out at
Speaker 3: the standard, you're getting paid about thirty five to fifty
Speaker 3: dollars an hour for what the work actually is. That's
Speaker 3: not bad. Potentially could be more of it, more hourly
Speaker 3: than what you're getting paid at your regular teaching job.
Speaker 3: And finally, this idea really does excite me as well.
Speaker 3: Number nine is being a special lecturer.
Speaker 1: I like this idea. I have thought about this one.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you are already a teacher. You know how
Speaker 3: to lecture, You know how to get a crowd to
Speaker 3: listen to you a crowd of children, much less a
Speaker 3: crowd of adults. There are so many different fields that
Speaker 3: would want guest lecturers, and a variety of subject matters.
Speaker 3: Of course, you do have to be an expert in
Speaker 3: said field, but if you're a teacher, you're an expert
Speaker 3: on something. Guarantee you. Some of the ideas that they
Speaker 3: list are art exhibits, different art installations might want a
Speaker 3: guest lecturer to talk about that installation or maybe even
Speaker 3: what that artwork is related to hold hold your faces
Speaker 3: and yourselves. As I'm about to say this next thing.
Speaker 3: Cruise ships. Cruise ships might want lecturers depending on what
Speaker 3: the cruise is for. Maybe the cruise ship has its
Speaker 3: own type of like installation that they want a lecturer for,
Speaker 3: or maybe there's conferences happening on cruise ships that you
Speaker 3: could be a special lecturer for. Charity and fundraiser events,
Speaker 3: community education events, museums, public library classes. Not all of
Speaker 3: them are going to pay a ton. You might be
Speaker 3: talking at minimum forty dollars for maybe an hour guest
Speaker 3: lecture spot, but you could be talking all the way
Speaker 3: up into you know, maybe the low thousands, depending on
Speaker 3: if you're a guest lecturer on a cruise ship. There's
Speaker 3: this is wild.
Speaker 1: I will I will say this could work into the
Speaker 1: high thousands to tens of thousands, because what you can
Speaker 1: do here, as like a guest lecturer, whether it's paid
Speaker 1: or not, is you can build a portfolio to where
Speaker 1: you are getting to speak at these conferences. So many
Speaker 1: teachers will have their you know, their one conference they
Speaker 1: go to every summer, right, you could be speaking, You
Speaker 1: could be a keynote speaker at those teacher conferences every year.
Speaker 1: So if you can, you know, create a keynote talk
Speaker 1: that would be of interest to teacher organizations un then
Speaker 1: this lower level stuff can work into really like, these
Speaker 1: organizations are paying tens of thousands of dollars for high
Speaker 1: level keynote speakers, and they're not looking for like CEOs
Speaker 1: and you know, Steve Jobs type people, you know, Like
Speaker 1: they're looking like a music teacher conference is looking for
Speaker 1: a teacher to give some kind of motivational or inspirational
Speaker 1: educational talk to other music teachers who also teach high
Speaker 1: schoolers or middle schoolers or elementary.
Speaker 4: School teachers, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's just something that this can work into. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of conferences over the summer making it
Speaker 1: a perfect opportunity.
Speaker 3: I think that's beautiful. But I also think you don't
Speaker 3: have to pigeonhole yourself just because you're a teacher. You
Speaker 3: have to talk to teachers. I think you can use
Speaker 3: your teaching skill. Let's say you are a teacher. You've
Speaker 3: got all of that resource and knowledge of how to
Speaker 3: teach something, and you just happen to be an avid
Speaker 3: gardener and you want to go give a guest lecture
Speaker 3: at your local nursery or your garden group, and they
Speaker 3: want to pay you. Anything starts somewhere, and each speaking
Speaker 3: gig can build upon itself. But you also don't have
Speaker 3: to feel as though teaching is the only thing you're
Speaker 3: able to do. You have a skill set that has
Speaker 3: a variety of different outlets you can find. What are
Speaker 3: the other things you're interested in? Which does loop back
Speaker 3: to that first question that I asked about mental emotional,
Speaker 3: physical capacity. Sometimes when we're exhausted in one area, it
Speaker 3: doesn't mean that all we need to do is sleep.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it does sometimes that's the best way to refresh ourselves,
Speaker 3: but we can also find rest and refreshment and just
Speaker 3: doing something different, exercising a different aspect of who we are.
Speaker 3: So you might be exhausted with teaching children all day
Speaker 3: and you want the summer to rest, but you need money. Okay,
Speaker 3: how can you utilize the plethora of skill sets that
Speaker 3: you have that isn't exactly the same as what you
Speaker 3: did during the school year. Utilize your skill set, but
Speaker 3: find a different outlet for it that can make you
Speaker 3: money that excites you, that is enjoyable. Yep, you know
Speaker 3: what does really excite me, and I always find enjoyable that.
Speaker 1: I think all teachers should be calling in with and
Speaker 1: letting us know, like any time of year, but especially
Speaker 1: the summer, the bill of the week.
Speaker 5: That's right, it's time for the best minute of your
Speaker 5: entire week. Maybe a baby was born and his name
Speaker 5: is William. Maybe you paid off your mortgage, maybe your
Speaker 5: car died and you're happy to not have to pay
Speaker 5: that bill anymore. Duck bills, Buffalo bills, Bill Clinton, this
Speaker 5: is the bill of the week.
Speaker 4: Hi, Jenna Jill, This is Christine from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I
Speaker 4: wanted to tell you about my bill of the week
Speaker 4: I'm super excited about. I have a twenty eighteen Toyota
Speaker 4: Wrap four. I had a headlight go out, so I
Speaker 4: called the dealership. They wanted about sixty dollars to go
Speaker 4: ahead and change the lightbulb, and then I called a
Speaker 4: local garage, thinking it would be cheaper, and it was astounding.
Speaker 4: They wanted three hundred dollars to change the light bulb
Speaker 4: in my car. So then I went on YouTube and
Speaker 4: I started watching videos about how to change the light
Speaker 4: bulb in my car, make a model. And then when
Speaker 4: we came home, I went to the store and I
Speaker 4: bought my light bulb. We came home and my husband
Speaker 4: and I held the flashlight, went in there, changed the
Speaker 4: light bulb for thirty one dollars and it took us
Speaker 4: less than five minutes. Thank you. Love the podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh, Christine, I love a YouTube fixing story. I love it.
Speaker 3: Oh makes me so happy. That's what we're talking about. Christine.
Speaker 3: You knew you had options. You knew you didn't have
Speaker 3: to fork over three hundred bucks for someone else to
Speaker 3: do a five minute job that you yourself could easily do
Speaker 3: with the power of the internet and your go get
Speaker 3: an attitude. You're gritty, problem solving nature. Yes, yes, changing out.
Speaker 3: I mean I gotta say I have not done it,
Speaker 3: but I have seen it done and it is easy.
Speaker 3: And actually most any store that has an autopart section,
Speaker 3: including Walmart, usually has a guide that will tell you
Speaker 3: the exact bulb to purchase for your car. You just
Speaker 3: look it up in the in the guide, find the bulb,
Speaker 3: get it. Yeah, then you watch the YouTube video. You
Speaker 3: do it yourself for thirty one dollars. In less than
Speaker 3: five minutes, you saved yourself two hundred and seventy dollars.
Speaker 3: Well done, Christine, And now you won't get pulled over
Speaker 3: and get a ticket for having a headlined out If
Speaker 3: you all listening, have a bill about just sticking it
Speaker 3: to the man, find in your own pathway forward. Just
Speaker 3: be out here being a trailblazer and saving money. Or
Speaker 3: your name is Bill, and you you've not done any
Speaker 3: of this, You've never changed a headlight before, but you
Speaker 3: are Bill because that's your name. Visit Provocal Friends podcast
Speaker 3: dot com slash Bill. I'll leave us here, Bill, And
Speaker 3: now it's time for the light being.
Speaker 1: Around, all right, for today's vulnerability lightning round. What's your
Speaker 1: fondest memory of a summer side hustle that you've ever done.
Speaker 1: Oh so I've I don't know if I've ever done
Speaker 1: one strictly summer, but man, I've done quite a few
Speaker 1: side hustles. I think my fondest, Well, my fondest is
Speaker 1: for sure the Foster the group. I mean, I loved
Speaker 1: that place. I loved it there. I got to build
Speaker 1: like great relationships and I got to be like a
Speaker 1: I mean, I was the young youngest person working with
Speaker 1: these kids. Like I was the only person under the
Speaker 1: age of sixty, right, I mean the staff in the
Speaker 1: office were my age, but like the moms and other
Speaker 1: respite were all just like you know, older retired women.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it was really cool to build relationships and just
Speaker 1: be able to like get on a different level with
Speaker 1: the kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that.
Speaker 1: Was really great. I did that for about three years.
Speaker 3: Whoa man, This is really unlocking some memories. I have
Speaker 3: made money doing so many things, not all can be
Speaker 3: shared on the page. Not all of it was sustainable
Speaker 3: amounts of money, but I've gotten paid to do nearly
Speaker 3: everything that's legal. Honestly, this is probably my favorite side ushle.
Speaker 3: It became my main hustle. This was a side hustle
Speaker 3: for me. Yeah, for a very long time. That has
Speaker 3: eclipsed the rest of it has become a main hustle.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, by surprise, yeah, suppress, supress.
Speaker 1: Nobody anticipated that a podcast would become a main It's
Speaker 1: nothing that we would recommend.
Speaker 3: Not me. Yeah, for sure. There was a time that
Speaker 3: I babysat a child, a friend's child, in exchange for food.
Speaker 3: That might be the most unique that I didn't actually
Speaker 3: get paid for that, but I was just like, food
Speaker 3: is my main problem. I don't even have time to
Speaker 3: make food, nor do I even know where to start.
Speaker 3: But I will watch your baby, and you love cooking,
Speaker 3: so you make me food. That happened for a while.
Speaker 3: I did enjoy that. That was nice. I'm always looking
Speaker 3: for ways to pay someone else to make me food,
Speaker 3: even though I am getting better at it. I'd love
Speaker 3: to outsource that.
Speaker 1: I probably won't make you food, but you can hold
Speaker 1: my baby.
Speaker 3: I'll do that, but i'd love it if you made
Speaker 3: me food. I will try.
Speaker 1: I'm always also looking for people to.
Speaker 3: Make any food I have. I'm remembering now too. I
Speaker 3: got paid like commissioned art. I like made different charcoal
Speaker 3: drawings for people that they paid me for. I have
Speaker 3: flipped furniture for money beyond all the other side of
Speaker 3: a couple talk about. Yeah, flipped our vs. Sold plants
Speaker 3: on the side of their own bar, Attended at weddings,
Speaker 3: DJed weddings.
Speaker 1: Day of coordinator, Yeah yeah, day of coordination. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've definitely done more side hustles than I.
Speaker 3: Have, and I am more poor than you are.
Speaker 1: So o fake your no, no, no, I don't I mean,
Speaker 1: ours just came from a few lucky side hustles. The
Speaker 1: Airbnb out of our house that was really good, that
Speaker 1: was very lucrative as compared to the time it took
Speaker 1: to actually work the quote unquote side hustle that worked
Speaker 1: out really well for us, and selling T shirts that
Speaker 1: just lucked out. I got really lucky with the algorithm
Speaker 1: until somebody like maliciously took me down, and then it
Speaker 1: just wasn't fun anymore. It just got so vicious, like
Speaker 1: the merch by Amazon like world got very vicious, very automated,
Speaker 1: and I just like couldn't keep up. I was just
Speaker 1: like doing it for funzies, but that also became very
Speaker 1: lucrative for a short amount of time. So and we
Speaker 1: use since those were both before we had kids, we
Speaker 1: just invested all of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean that.
Speaker 1: Was the secret. So, like, if you're looking to do
Speaker 1: a side hustle just to maybe catch up with retirement,
Speaker 1: there you go, like just do something for funsies, yeah,
Speaker 1: and put the extra towards retirement.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what we did.
Speaker 1: We didn't I wasn't passionate about airbnb. Yeah, I still
Speaker 1: do it, but I'm not passionate and there you go.
Speaker 1: You don't have to commit to it for a lifetime. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can do any one of these things, make some
Speaker 1: money off of it, learn from it and move on yeap.
Speaker 1: Like me, I hardly made any money, but I got
Speaker 1: a lot of skill set. You got a lot of skills.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. Many of you know
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Speaker 1: you helped me by scoring the Starbucks mug at a
Speaker 1: local thrift shop for six dollars and she sent us
Speaker 1: a picture when she says this Starbucks mug instead of
Speaker 1: thirty six dollars new at the store in January, I
Speaker 1: saved seventy five dollars because I use this mug at
Speaker 1: home instead of drive through. Never thought it would work
Speaker 1: for me famous last words, but it did. Thanks for
Speaker 1: all you do. Ladies. Also because of your inspiration, we
Speaker 1: started saving for this sweet girl that we got last fall.
Speaker 1: It was a cute picture of her doggie. We even
Speaker 1: have an emergency fund for her. And this was in February.
Speaker 1: So she says, happy Valentine's from a former shopaholic who's
Speaker 1: now on a budget, still likes to shop, just very
Speaker 1: particular now in a good way.
Speaker 3: Take care. Oh my word. Ps. No, she didn't get
Speaker 3: the coffee, though she did try.
Speaker 1: It was a picture of the dog with the coffee.
Speaker 1: It was very cute. Thank you.
Speaker 3: That's so kind, And what an amazing encouragement for us
Speaker 3: and celebratory realization for you that this is truly what
Speaker 3: we are hoping to do for ourselves. Encourage you all
Speaker 3: towards is just getting control of impulse spending and spending
Speaker 3: more intentionally and finding yourself with some of the margin
Speaker 3: to put towards the things that you really value and enjoy.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful. Well, don thanks for listening. If you want
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Speaker 3: Okay Jen Yes speaking of trying different side hustles. You
Speaker 3: know me, I'm always looking for ways to make more money.
Speaker 3: I'm always just looking for money on the ground. You
Speaker 3: know you are, which Eric, this is not what I
Speaker 3: plan on telling you, but I'm about to found He
Speaker 3: just got a button down shirt, I want to say
Speaker 3: from the thrift store, but possibly not. But it had
Speaker 3: a little pocket in it. We were having lunch the
Speaker 3: other day and he just like reaches in this pocket
Speaker 3: pulls out a five dollar bill. Hey, He's like, I
Speaker 3: haven't washed the shirt yet, it's my first time wearing it.
Speaker 3: There's just a five dollar bill in the shirt pocket.
Speaker 3: Oh good day, A good sunday. I love that finding
Speaker 3: a five dollar Yeah, that was that was beautiful. But
Speaker 3: instead of Airbnb, I try peer Space. Did I tell
Speaker 3: you about that?
Speaker 1: Well, you told me. You post it on peer space.
Speaker 3: I posted on peer tel.
Speaker 1: Tell the people about peer space.
Speaker 3: Okay. So peer space is an opportunity for you to
Speaker 3: list your space online for people to rent for like
Speaker 3: more an hourly or day rate, so no one's sleeping over.
Speaker 3: It's different from Airbnb in that way, but people could
Speaker 3: rent it for business meetings or maybe even like photography
Speaker 3: or videography shoots or some sort of event, maybe like
Speaker 3: a small business gathering, or if you want to extend
Speaker 3: your hours later into the night and let people host
Speaker 3: parties at your house, you could do that. So really
Speaker 3: excited about it because you can actually make more money
Speaker 3: off of peer space what people will pay hourly than
Speaker 3: you can sometimes on an overnight at your place, and
Speaker 3: then you don't have to like give people a bed,
Speaker 3: although people probably aren't booking as regularly, so there is
Speaker 3: bit of a trade off, but a little bit more
Speaker 3: bang for your buck at that point, or vice versa
Speaker 3: as the recipient of it. But I was excited about
Speaker 3: this idea, and so I put our space up on it. Now,
Speaker 3: I did just have a recent interaction that does not
Speaker 3: vote well for me. I had turned on instant booking.
Speaker 3: It was encouraged to do that when we first signed
Speaker 3: up for it, like let people instantly book it and
Speaker 3: they're more likely to book it, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that sounds good. I'll just make sure that the calendar's
Speaker 3: up to date. Well. Fast forward to now, I've had
Speaker 3: a few inquiries about it, not people instantly booking, just
Speaker 3: kind of messaging me to see if the space is
Speaker 3: going to be a good fit for them, So I
Speaker 3: haven't totally thought about the fact that instant booking is on.
Speaker 3: So this one woman reaches out to me. She's like, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about hosting my fortieth birthday party at your
Speaker 3: place from four to seven pm, three hours for fortieth
Speaker 3: birthday party. And I was like, hey, how exciting. You know,
Speaker 3: let me get a little bit more information from you
Speaker 3: and we can kind of see if this can work, Like,
Speaker 3: are you planning on staying here? Are you planning on
Speaker 3: setting up and tearing down and having your party in
Speaker 3: this three hour time span? And she was like, well,
Speaker 3: I was planning. I was hoping for like a thirty
Speaker 3: minute grace period to set up. And then I said, well,
Speaker 3: are you planning on bringing your own food or because
Speaker 3: I do have an option where I could like get
Speaker 3: it catered for them, not me providing the food, but
Speaker 3: like collecting and curating the food. And she said, no,
Speaker 3: we'll bring her own food. So I'm like, okay, that's decent.
Speaker 3: And then literally after a few minutes of thinking about it.
Speaker 3: It was within a couple of days. I was not
Speaker 3: feeling well and knew that i'd have a lot of
Speaker 3: cleaning to do, and it just like wasn't going to
Speaker 3: be worth it, just the timing. I'm like, she wants
Speaker 3: a thirty minute grace period ahead of time fortieth birthday party.
Speaker 3: They do say they're to be drinking, They're not going
Speaker 3: to be out of here by seven pm. There's no way.
Speaker 3: I just don't feel comfortable about this. So I wrote
Speaker 3: back and said, unfortunately listed out all these reasons, I
Speaker 3: don't think I'm gonna be able to give you what
Speaker 3: you deserve for your fortieth birthday party. Literally, as I
Speaker 3: send that message, she books it. She's not even waiting
Speaker 3: for my response to all these different clarification pieces, she
Speaker 3: just books it, so that I gave it another like
Speaker 3: forty minutes to see if she saw my message and
Speaker 3: if she would cancel. So I'm like, I don't want
Speaker 3: to be the one to cancel, but I did. I canceled.
Speaker 3: I was the one to cancel. And now I'm getting
Speaker 3: all these messages from peer space being like, this is
Speaker 3: your first one, so you're fine, but if you ever
Speaker 3: do it again, there's gonna be fines fees, and they
Speaker 3: even said, yeah, if there are any costs incurred by
Speaker 3: the guest or peer Space. As a result of this cancelation,
Speaker 3: we'll be reaching out to you to pay those and
Speaker 3: now I feel bullied and scared.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they want to. It has to be a
Speaker 1: good end result for the user. Airbnb does the same
Speaker 1: thing because there were a lot I mean, there have
Speaker 1: been horror stories, right, but if you turn I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just like a there. Yeah, they're not going to
Speaker 1: charge you after the first time, obviously, but it is
Speaker 1: something that people take very seriously.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still on it. I'm still excited about the
Speaker 3: possibilities of it. I just turned off instant booking for
Speaker 3: now into like I mean, and maybe that'll mean people
Speaker 3: aren't going to be well.
Speaker 1: Something you can do with keeping instant Booking on is
Speaker 1: that you can make minimum parameters and you can set
Speaker 1: really clear guidelines like renting is a four hour minimum.
Speaker 1: There is no grace period for set up and tear
Speaker 1: down everything you have to pay you just you be
Speaker 1: very clear in the description. Yeah, and that way when
Speaker 1: you turn instant Booking on and keep all your communication
Speaker 1: on the platform, so there's no way they're going to
Speaker 1: charge you for anything, because they'll see forty minutes after
Speaker 1: booking that it was canceled, So there's you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, I mean within two hours of her initial request,
Speaker 3: I told her it wasn't gonna work, so like the yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, but being very clear, like in our Airbnb listing,
Speaker 1: like we're very clear this is an apartment. This is
Speaker 1: an apartment. It is attached to a primary residence, and
Speaker 1: it's on a quiet street. But you're not getting a
Speaker 1: single family home. You know, you just make it really
Speaker 1: clear what you're getting into so they know they have
Speaker 1: no room to complain or you know, try to skirt
Speaker 1: like like push the edge of the allow you know, allotment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's just a learning curve. I think with all
Speaker 3: of these things, like even the side hustles that we're
Speaker 3: just talking about, Like some of them sound really cool
Speaker 3: and could be lucrative, but there's still always going to
Speaker 3: be like a learning curve and potential failure along the way.
Speaker 1: I think a really good lesson to learn in stuff
Speaker 1: like this is that you have to protect yourself first.
Speaker 1: Don't be like, oh, I'll do anything, like I'll cook
Speaker 1: for these people, I'll cater this, Like, protect yourself first,
Speaker 1: under promise and potentially over deliver or under promise and
Speaker 1: just adequately, moderately deliver. You know, like this is when
Speaker 1: you are promising too much when you're a business owner,
Speaker 1: you will quickly burn yourself out. But when you stay
Speaker 1: in your lane, only work in your capacity, then you
Speaker 1: have the capacity to over deliver in some instance when
Speaker 1: it feels.
Speaker 3: You go that is good. Cool, good word.