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☆ I make $6,500 a month in rental income. After wanting to invest for 20 years, I used a HELOC to buy my first investment properties.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-26 | by ( Kimanzi Constable | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Amanda Hammett, 43, is a public speaker, consultant, and real-estate investor in Atlanta, Georgia. One idea that kept coming to my mind was real-estate investing. It never felt like we had the mental space or time to give real-estate investing a real thought. The goal is to replace my income as a speaker and consultant with real-estate income, and I'm on track to reach that goal this year. Are you a real-estate investor who wants to share your story?

☆ I'm a virtual assistant making 6 figures a year. Here's how I found clients and scaled up to start my own company.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-01 | by ( Layne Van Vranken | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Falyn Golub is a virtual assistant and the founder of boutique VA company The Invisible Assistant. I didn't know that a virtual assistant was even a job when I decided to start working from home in 2016. Over the past five years, I've created my own virtual assistant business, and it's become an incredible career for me. This isn't an industry-specific career because the need for a virtual assistant can be applied to just about any industry. Are you a virtual assistant who wants to share your story?

☆ My husband and I made $200,000 in revenue last year on Poshmark. Here's how I went from working at Bath & Body Works to reselling full time.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-13 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I resell shoes on Poshmark full time under the closet name "RNZY," which is my husband, Ryan's, and my name combined. From 2013 to 2015, I worked as a Bath & Body Works store manager in Burlington, Vermont. We sold shoes and clothing, but we quickly niched down to exclusively shoes. We both realized that we enjoyed the entire process of selling shoes — sourcing, cleaning, photographing, listing, and shipping. (We search for the pair of shoes on Poshmark and select "sold items."

☆ I make 6 figures a year as a freelance virtual assistant. Here are 3 things that help me work smarter and faster.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-05 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Hannah Dixon is a freelance virtual assistant and coach who juggles a lot of different projects. When I was starting out as a freelance virtual assistant, I juggled a lot of clients with very different projects and very different deadlines. An online Mastermind group is a collection of people who are working toward similar goals but bring different expertise to the table. I joined my first Mastermind group about a year and a half into my freelance career. Are you a successful virtual assistant with a story to tell?

☆ I'm a hairstylist for A-list celebrities who works on magazine and film sets. Here's what my job is like.
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-29 | by ( Costa B. Pappas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Elena Maravelias is a celebrity hairstylist who got her start cutting a singer's hair at a concert. She toured with the Warped Tour, got a job at a salon in NYC, and now has a celebrity client list. She says when working with celebrities, don't put them on a pedestal or ask personal questions. I didn't have the goal to become a bicoastal celebrity hairstylist — it just sort of happened. You never know what you're going to encounter on set, which is the exciting part, but being on set for up to 14 hours at a time for weeks can be a lot.

☆ I make $7,000 a month on Taskrabbit doing odd jobs like event planning, gift wrapping, and organizing closets. Here's how I got my start.
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-23 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

She makes an average of $7,000 a month building furniture and dressing up as a princess for parties. Thanks to Taskrabbit, I've felt more at home in this huge city by knowing the ins and outs of what the city offers — and where. There were requests for everything from personal-assistant work to event planning and staffing, and much more. Since you're not forced to meet a quota, sometimes I'll work seven days a week, or sometimes I'll work three days a week. I also continue to help all the other clients I've acquired through the years by word of mouth.

☆ I make up to $5,000 a month on Fiverr and only work 4 days a week. Here are my biggest tips for making your profile stand out to attract new clients.
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-22 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Her best advice is to be a leader in your projects and connect with your clients on a deeper level. I'm a content writer, speaker, and the founder and director of FreelanceSpeak, a blog and coaching business for freelancers. After taking a content-marketing course at work, I saw an opportunity to create a more fulfilling career on my own terms. I was hired to write location-specific articles, and I used those articles as samples to land my next client, a content agency. Sellers can't solicit customers for reviews — however, I use a template when I deliver a client's order that says, "Hi [name], I have your content ready for review.

☆ I run a 6-figure company that uses TikTok and Pinterest to generate sales. Here's how I started it as a side hustle.
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-15 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Abha Chiyedan is the founder of The Werk Life, a digital-media company she started as a side hustle. The Werk Life had zero followers, and I set a lofty goal of getting to 1,000 followers in three weeks. Building out my own line of products and services for The Werk Life has been my main focus. Pinterest was one of the first social accounts I started for The Werk Life. Did you leave a corporate job to become an entrepreneur or run a successful TikTok business or account?

☆ I'm a commercial pilot for Frontier. The commute and unruly passengers are a challenge, but I love that I get paid to travel.
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-20 | by ( David Silverberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Ron Fishman is a commercial pilot for Frontier Airlines with more than 17 years of experience. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ron Fishman, a 42-year-old commercial pilot from Toronto, Ontario, who's been flying for more than 17 years. This one-year certificate gave me my private pilot license (PPL), commercial pilot license (CPL), instrument rating (IR), and other things like night ratingsA private pilot license allows you to fly for fun, meaning you aren't allowed to profit from piloting. A commercial license allows you to make money as a pilot, with limitations. I'm not anxious and I support United, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, and each airline's decisions, regardless of their stance on masks.

☆ I've flipped more than 1,000 properties worth $500 million. Here's what I've learned about real estate from my biggest losses.
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-07 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

John Maxim is a house flipper who learned how to do everything himself to understand the market. This opened my eyes to real estate as an avenue for making money — even with no background in it. Since I started, I've flipped more than 1,000 properties that total $500 million in real estate. I've learned a lot about renovations the hard wayBefore and after a kitchen flip. Keep an eye on what things really cost, including the value of your time and the future value of your money.

☆ I'm a 23-year-old who's saved more than $107,000 by waitressing and bartending in Nantucket and Aspen. Here's what it's like being a seasonal worker.
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-02 | by ( Lauryn Haas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Sam Madden, 23, has worked as a nanny, waitress, and bartender in Nantucket and Aspen for six years. I had some money saved to pay for rent because I'd worked at McDonald's and Olive Garden throughout high school. In the main house, there were a bunch of college guys and girls who all worked at the Nantucket Yacht Club, and I thought that their summer looked like so much fun. My manager saw that I had bartending on my résumé from the yacht club and asked if I wanted to start bartending. She lived with a manager of a restaurant called Cru, which is kind of the "It" restaurant on the island.

☆ I do bottle service for a Las Vegas nightclub and can make thousands in tips each night — but the job is a lot grosser than people realize
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-11 | by ( Lauryn Haas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

"Bottle girl" is slang for girls who work in clubs and do bottle service specifically, but both terms describe what I do. I got the job two weeks after I turned 21, so I hadn't even officially been to a club yet. All the clubs in Las Vegas, mine included, are usually open one weekday and then on the weekends. Our job is to guide them through the night, although we're supposed to sell to them and encourage them to buy. But I know some girls who are uncomfortable about handshakes and high fives because in a nightclub we just don't really know where people's hands have been.

☆ I make $5,000 a month washing people's clothes on SudShare — here's how
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-07 | by ( Lauryn Haas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Before I found out about SudShare, I drove for ride-hailing companies like Uber and cleaned houses with different companies. As a Sudster, I started earning between $600 to $700 a week at the beginning, then more clients started placing orders. On a good day, bags are from $55 to $60, sometimes upward of $120, as it's $1 per pound of clothes. When folding clothes, I don't fold all of them at the same time but rather separate the loads by clients. Usually if I pick up a lot of clothes, I don't deliver them the same day, but I deliver them all by the next morning.

☆ I'm a prop master who handles weapons on movie and TV sets. I'm the last person to hand an actor a gun, but I've never been afraid for my safety.
▼ + stars: | 2021-10-22 | by ( Lauryn Haas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Lucien Charles has worked as a prop master on TV and film sets for 17 years. Prop masters are the last person to hand an actor a gun, and the person who gives the actor a gun is responsible for it. People on the set being close to a prop gun is very dangerous. The blast of a prop gun can kill you, depending on the load that the gun has. I don't know the timeline of history for this story or what year they're doing — that's information I don't have, so I don't know what happened there.

☆ I'm an ER doctor who runs a travel company on the weekends — and it's landed me a 6-figure book deal, free trips, and more
▼ + stars: | 2021-10-19 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Calvin D. Sun is an attending physician and the leader of The Monsoon Diaries, a travel company. This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Calvin D. Sun, a 34-year-old ER doctor from New York, about his job and travel company. Calvin D. Sun. I'm also the founder and CEO of The Monsoon Diaries, a travel company that leads unstructured, adventure-centric trips around the world. Courtesy of Calvin D. SunI had no idea at the time that it would go any further than just that.

☆ I'm a 25-year-old who makes a $91,000 salary as a virtual assistant, plus income from my 2 side hustles — here's how I get it all done
▼ + stars: | 2021-09-23 | by ( Lauryn Haas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Andrea Laird, 25, is a virtual assistant, freelancer, and business owner from Brooklyn, New York. Then I was introduced to being a virtual assistant, where you don't need a lot of experience, and you can use that same call-center experience to serve somebody and learn. The majority of my income is from my salaried job, and my second biggest source of income is from my freelance clients. They're the same templates I used to secure my first virtual assistant client within seven days when I first started. Are you a virtual assistant who wants to share your story?

☆ I'm a teacher in a tiny Alaskan village. My class consists of 8 students and there are no restaurants or movie theaters — here's what my life is like.
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-13 | by ( Taryn Williams | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Taryn Williams, 28, is a teacher and freelance writer based in the rural Alaskan Bush. Taryn Williams. Taryn WilliamsWhen I lived in Philadelphia, it took me nearly an hour to commute to my school via public transportation. Because I live so close to school, I'm able to go home for lunch every day, and it's something I've really grown to appreciate. Most recently, I facilitated an internship in which students learned how to make their own podcast from a Native Alaskan podcaster.

☆ 2 cart girls who work on golf courses reveal what their jobs are like, from $900 tips to dealing with creepy men and unwanted advances
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-20 | by ( Lauryn Haas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Working as a beverage-cart driver is a popular summer job for many young women. Insider spoke with two women who have worked as beverage-cart drivers at golf courses in Texas and California. But for a bunch of my relatives, that was their summer job, and they made a lot of money doing it. So you're driving a golf cart around all summer, getting tan, talking to people, and making money. People don't think about that.

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