I quit my job for an easy side hustle – now I bring in £81k a month & work for just 2.5 hours a week
A SAVVY money whizz has shared how you can rake in a staggering £81k every month whilst working less than three hours a week.
Ever since securing a job, Cassiy Johnson, from the USA, had always wanted a second income source to rake in extra cash – however, one of her first side hustles, selling concrete candles and coffee mugs swirled in nail polish, took up too much of her time.
Then she came up with an idea – designing T-shirts.
Cassiy soon launched her Etsy shop after having been furloughed from her full-time job as a daycare salesperson, where she was making over £55k a year.
In the autumn, just months after launching her shop, the money whizz brought $30,000 – or a staggering £24k – in two months, she said in an interview with CBNC.
The best part? Not only is the side hustle lucrative but it she also spends just 30 minutes a day working on it – or just 2.5hrs a week.
After quitting her sales job, where she was paid a little over £13 per hour – Cassiy made this her full-time occupation and the following year the entrepreneur made an eye-watering £73k in sales.
According to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It, Cassiy’s Etsy storee has brought in over £618k in lifetime revenue, roughly a third of which is profit, she reckons.
In her highest-earning month to date, the style fan believes she’s brought in £81k date, pocketing a hefty £21k of the sum.
Sharing her success story, Cassiy revealed that following this, she decided to come up with two additional businesses and this, in turn, enabled her hubby to also quit his job.
“My husband was having a really stressful time at work, and I knew we could live off $90,000 [£72k per year],” said the 31-year-old.
“It was a magical time, to be able to be like, ‘You know what, honey, just quit your job.’”
A ‘print on demand’ side hustle
According to the whizz, who also shares her tips and tricks on YouTube, the ”print on demand” side hustle is relatively ”easy”.
Here, sellers come up with designs on blank T-shirt templates — these are called mock-ups — and then send orders to manufacturers, who are responsible for printing and shipping the items.
The strategy is simply to figure out what “people are already looking for [and] put something up for sale in front of them”, Cassiy added.
Once per month, she will do a thorough research on the site, finding the hottest trends and seeing what’s worth jumping on.
For extra source of inspiration, the fashion fan will also check out what’s new at at Walmart, as well as on social media.
To create each new shirt, the 31-year-old uses the popular graphic design platform Canva before uploading a snap of the mock-up T-shirt to her Etsy page.
According to her, the shirt doesn’t actually exist until someone orders it – this will send an automated request to a manufacturer and distributor, such as Printify, which is already integrated into Etsy.
The majority of her designs have popular phrases that come in unique fonts or even with an altered language for certain demographics, for example, those in the health sector and teachers.
Cassiy also sells customisable T-shirts, where shoppers can chuck their own text or slogan into already existing design templates.
Amongst her most popular offerings in 2021, for instance, was a repeatable design that features letters in half-cheetah print, half-neon font, she said.
“I made designs that look exactly the same, that say hundreds of different things,” Cassiy noted.