robot, your records are welcome to thoughtful score. Story I high school teacher spends his way to profits. Operating several side are in the world of vinyl records. Stumbles on this largely by accident, but it's nice full time work and has taken him all over the world and to events such as cultural and the Superbowl. When you start doing something you're interested in when you kind of take a big even a small step. You never know where you're going to end up. That's the whole point of a side, hustle exploration and discovery, crafts on covering something that could even change your life, whether it's a complete career change like this guy, is going to tell you about, or it's just some additional income. No, that's pretty good too! That's a big part of talk about everyday of the program. Before I get started, I want to give a shout out to another podcast. This is pretty cool. It's called from the heart conversations with yoga girl when she's not practicing handstands on her stand up paddle board to school at

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For business it can manage all your apps and data anywhere across all your clouds, so it can help take on anything from rebuking flights on the fly to restocking shelves on demand without getting in your way, Smart loves problems, IBM, let's put smart to work, visit, IBM dot com, flexible to learn more Michael Dixon has more of aside hustle theme and one specific service or product he runs. Several projects are based in one way or another. Around final records lie. Records well might became obsessed with his parents old vinyl records as a kid. He believes there's value in a tangible product. It's not mass produced. Unlike streaming digital audio files about a decade ago, he was working a full time job as a high school teacher. When he began his first vinyl related business, he would order small batches of records from New Zealand from

The only light cut record makers in the world at that time. In case you did not know because, of course, I didn't cutting a record using a late means that sound waves are focused into a needle Tipp as the needle vibrates edges groups into the disk, the groups of the physical equivalent to the sound waves and voila. You have yourself a record lace. Cut records are made one at a time, so small orders can be easily handled, whereas records made it a pressing plant or mass produced require large minimum borders. But when MIKE's orders from New Zealand started taking too long to fill, he wondered if he can learn to cut those records himself. He

and buying old, broken life machines that were built in the nineteen forty thousand pities. It took him about a year, but he figured out the process. This led to my second business vintage records, late repair, restoration and part sales. He runs this business with the help of the business partner named cress, making Chris started working life record, cutting booths at museums and small festivals. Doing the work just for fun. One day to convert shoe company took notice. They contacted MIKE about cutting records, Ferko Cello, where the majority of their party guess we're in the marketing and entertainment industry captivated what the process people started. Hiring, making, crisper corporate parties, festivals and other events it hasn't slowed down since just being at the events, is their best form of advertising. Three months after the converse event, MIKE's teaching contract was due to be renewed. He made a decision to leave his study, reliable income as a teacher and go all in with a record business he's never looked back since then MIKE increased

appeared around the world it over sixty festivals and events. They ve worked with acts such as the flaming lips just in timber lake and with Khalifa, have also been hired to cut records. The Sundance Film Festival and the super since might initially intend for his hobby to become a business. It's difficult to calculate start up costs at the time he would basically by equipment whenever he had the expendable income to do so. Also when he originally bought his gear. It was much less expensive than it is today, so it's actually appreciated in value, but overall he has to make the start up cost for approximately five thousand dollars and its monthly profits are approximately three thousand five hundred dollars working in a specialized industry can sometimes be a struggle. Paychecks are unsteady and the work comes and goes but more important to him than the monetary profit is what he calls standard of living profitability. She hasn't states, he gets to go on company sponsored work trips all over the world and spends his time. Hustling. Music,

in vinyl all things he loves. You also gets to meet and work with artist he's admired for years. He says he doesn't know anyone who has half as much fun doing their job as he does. Turning aside us all into his full time, work has dramatically improved MIKE's quality of life. Next on a turn style is more of the same. He's got some events in the: U S in Europe, coming up in a south west to our for his science of sound presentation, He's also developing new equipment for record cutting and working with some of his favorite artists I might add one thing away from research was episode aside from running about late records. Is this no that might has standard of living profitability interesting little metric to live by, not just how much money are you making, which must be clarified. A school were all about making

honey, it's good to make money, but the reason why we want to make money is because it can sometimes give us more choices and options in life to do what's important ass, It is certainly not the be all and all that's why I like this standard of living profitability, little metric or matrix or or whatever you want to call it reminds me of something I read about in my blog a long time ago a concept called units of momentary happiness, and I forget exactly where this came from. I think I cited in the article. The idea behind it is like we're always thinking about to be happier how to better ourselves, improve our situations, etc. If we focus not so much on the big things, because we always hearing about like really big things, but just ask yourself: how can you increase every single day? You're units of measurement and busy we come up. The wondered satisfies book is coming out on Tuesday I'll be on the road to five different cities next week, and hopefully we get a chance to hang out somewhere. Even if we don't I'll be talking with you about it as I go along. So thanks. So much for listing inspiration is guidance my coffee this moment, while I'm out in the sunshine this moment why

changes. The music that I like we're having a conversation with a friend or or whatever is pay attention to those little moments. Units of momentary happiness can just see what you can do day after day to increase them. I will leave you with that. Today. I got a busy weekend and busy we come up. Other wondered Sicels book is coming out. Tuesday I'll be on the road to five different cities next week, and hopefully we get a chance to hang out somewhere, even if we don't I'll be talking with you about it as I go along. So thanks. So much for listing inspiration is good, but inspiration with action is better You learn all about MIKE's. Various businesses just come to satisfy school dotcom. Slash eight eight too, We will link up everything I mention in the episode and more. Tomorrow and then all over the place. Next week you are a rock star. My name is critical about this is site us all. Sport

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