No one likes to feel stack, especially by your cloud, but the IBM cloud is the most open and secure public cloud for business. It can manage all your absent data anywhere. Smart loves problems, IBM, let's put smart to work, I began dot com slashed flexible. It's always go to find something you do for work, even if you didn't get paid for it and then it's even better to then get paid for it today. Speech or case study is really passionate about the photographer. He dies per real estate listings, so much so that in the beginning he says be felt like he should be the one paying for it now. Fortunately, for him, that's not how it works. The real estate agents pay him because he makes their listings stand out in a crowded marketplace. Welcome dishonest will money, Miss Priscilla Vote, so glad you're here today. What is something you like to do so much that you would do it for free? but it is also a marketable skill. That question is

I know a lot of our listeners are thinking about. It is a crucial question. It is kind of your gateway point to the world of sight, a sling, especially if you're thinking about doing some kind of service, so think about that. I come back to it at the end of this episode. Calling this one. Hobbyist photographer finds eight hundred dollars a month hiding in local newspaper statement. A revenue manager for Suffolk University, Adam Hoagie. We had a passion for photography. He had a knack for finding the best perspective in whatever he was. He also had another passion for realistic, but it wasn't. A few months ago that he heard them together in a picturesque site. Hustle Adam was simply flipping The real estate ads in his local newspaper when the opportunity came into focus many of the homes for sale had grainy cellphone pictures He saw a beautiful home from his childhood, represented in such a way. His resolve said it

immediately. Sent an email to the listing agent offering to take better images of the house and agent responded quickly, saying that she was interested. He realized he could draw from prior experience. His own families harm it. Gonna foresail your earlier and I witnessed the photo shoot by local photographer. He was quick to look up on Facebook and asked for advice. He also contacted friend next door, let a nearly identical home and they let him complete a practice, shoot the house responsible for impulsive, hustle idea when under contract before you take photos of it, but at a major so the setback he created. Instagram and Facebook profiles posting sample, work, family and friends homes. He then offered a fit Our visa gift cards were lucky winner, who liked and shared his page later on offering the same reward for a referral bonus to real estate agents after conducting some reason Adam figured out an ideal range of white to charge to undercut his competition. He does

to go at the lower end of the spectrum and in hopes of getting more business from the same agents, he even offers fifty percent off the first job. His very first page shoot took place less than two weeks from when he first had the idea, and he made couple of Ricky mistakes. He arrived at the home wearing a suit thinking. He should dress to impress, but then he rise. He would need to be flexible in different positions, including getting down on the ground for the perfect angle, suffer future jobs, did the suit also Adam was nervous. Rushing through the home is the real estate it break down his neck. The shoot took forty five minutes, but it felt like ours when it finally escaped into his car to head to his second shoot. He nearly cried. He says he felt like a failure, but he had been able to get any good photos that he had just wasted that agents time it turned out that he worry too much money. The photos turned out just fine and he learned from the ones that weren't so get he also learned about getting paid when he started Ottawa reschedule his entire day around whatever was best for the real estate agent, even changing a schedule on the fly more than once, you get a job

the agents had conveniently forgotten to bring your checkbooks, so he would do job in the knock you paid for weeks afterwards. He realized he would need to set boundaries. He still tries to be flexible wherever possible, but he now has a a sea of getting paid before handing over the final photos. So far only been doing this for four months, but he's making eight hundred governor dollars each month on the site it has already made up, possible for Adam and his dog to move into a nicer apartment. That's right! The dog has benefited from Adam Sessile, which are You have an old story. What happens if you play a country music song backwards? You get your house back, your truck back. Your girl back your dog back, it had Adam hopes to grow the business, so he can raises rates and maybe one day, even think his Linz into the more competitive market in Boston. You never know the picture perfect side hustle just might be hiding in your local newspaper,

So back to that question, and we started with what is something you like to do so much you would do it for free, but is also a marketable scale. I think this is one of our shared life goals. I think this is something that everybody should aspire to, not the only life goal, but I think it's really important to be able to find something that makes you come alive that you feel passionate about, but again is also something that is economically viable is sustainable and, like I said, I know that and is something that many of our listeners. Our thinking about. I want to give a shoutout you a good friend of mine, Jonathan fields. Jonathan is the founder of the good Life project and he has recently created a new tool that can help you to the essential nature of the work you're here to do. This is a free till you can take a little quiz. Can I tell you some information about yourself is calling it the life's work dna attack. This goes myself yesterday. It was interesting to see the results. This project is called spark a tight and if you go to spark a type dot com, you can check it out for yourself take the quiz that a spark a type s p, a r k, e t why p dot com and my speaking time is.

Bigger so I'll be curious. If you take that quest, let me know what yours is. Thank you as always for listening to date. Inspiration is good, but inspiration with action is so much better, though show notes. Are its additional school dotcom, slash six, seven to ensure got Adams project and see what he is up as well. We are nearing the end of the week. I've got a weekly recap for you to Morrow and then a whole new set of stories coming next week. Don't going, be sure your subscribed. Once again, my name is critical about this is side hustle score.