Mark Kohler shares how anyone can earn money through side hustles, even when time feels tight. He recounts a kitchen table conversation with his child during COVID and walks through concrete options: Uber, DoorDash, lawn care, janitorial work. He did janitorial work himself for eight years.
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I was literally with one of my kids at the kitchen table working on a real estate project. And there was tears because they're like, I just thought this would make more money. And then the next thought was, I don't have any time. I don't have time to go make more money. And then we started to unpack it. When you start to unpack it, it's this impression that I don't have more time. It's this impression that I can't do this. It's too hard. When in reality there's never been more opportunity. This was during COVID We had the big formation. There was over 20 million side hustles that got started during that two year period in. Because people said, I lost my job, they shut the door, I'm not an essential service. I got to go make money. How am I going to do this? They started driving Uber, they started doing doordash, they started mowing lawns, they started doing janitorial. I was a janitor for eight years. I know it's not that hard to walk out tomorrow and knock on someone's door, go, can I clean your garage? Can I clean your office? Can I clean your house? If you're willing to work, there's ways to make money.
