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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3028 - STORY: College Student Hacks Into $40,000 A Month Side Hustle

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When this student found himself in thousands of dollars worth of debt, he made a simple $40 investment that would go on to transform his life and reach tens of thousands of people around the world.

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:02.7

A college student hacks into $40,000 a month side hustle.

0:15.1

When this student found himself in thousands of dollars worth of debt, he made a simple

0:19.4

$40 investment that would go on to transform his life and reach tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt, he made a simple $40 investment that would go on to

0:21.6

transform his life and reach tens of thousands of people around the world. Welcome to

0:26.5

Sidesaw School, Chris Gillibow here, your host. Excited to bring you today's story, but also I have a

0:31.7

new book out. It's called Time Anxiety. It's about the fear of running out of time, about how do we decide what to do next,

0:39.5

how can we free ourselves from deadline dread, chronic rushing, all those kinds of things that

0:44.9

just weigh us down. I've been working on this book for a long time. I'm so thrilled to have it out

0:48.7

in the world. Timeanxiety.com. You can order the book from any retailer. I'm also doing events across the country. You can find

0:56.6

dates and details on that website as well. But of course, on with the show, because that's happening

1:01.2

too, every single day, of course. And this is part, this particular segment is part of a remix,

1:07.6

some of our best stories from 2017, 2018, going all the way back there.

1:12.3

If you happen to be listening then, well, we've got some updates.

1:15.1

And if you were not listening in 2017, well, it's completely new.

1:18.4

So as noted, today's story, it's about this college student.

1:21.2

He creates a series of courses on the topic of ethical hacking.

1:25.4

So he's basically a computer programmer showing people how to hack

1:28.3

systems for good, as opposed to the other kind of hacking. He goes on to earn five figures in net

1:33.9

income each month from these materials. He's just doing fabulously well. He was several years ago

1:39.8

when we first featured him, and he's still going strong. It's just incredible story. So I'm going to bring it to you in just 30 seconds.

1:46.2

Quick little shout out to our sponsor.

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