Hustles You Wish You Started As a Kid...

[Jackson Cole]

Hi All! In my last post I asked "What's a peice of advice you wish you could've told your 16 year old self?" Not really expecting a response I whipped up a quick snippet and hoped for the best. Well I hoped... and my hopes came true because I was able to hear from 5 AMAZING individuals that each had excellent advice. Gosh what a world we live in. A random 16 year old kid can reach out and get high quality advice from industry experts in less then a hour... crazy.

With that being said, one peice of advice that stuck out to me was "Start A Hustle." Great advice and that's something I've always been interested in. For those of you who don't know me I've always been a little more entrepreneurial then the average joe. But here's a tiny bit about me for context.

• Made some decent money acting in commercials and doing professional theatre for a little.
• Filmed my school's football team and edited a hype video... worked my way up to getting paid to make videos for various teams and events.
• Tried to start a clothing brand, got a few sales, not proud to say I lost passion, focus and gave up.
• Started a YT channel, grew to 1,000+ subscribers, kids at school found it and I slowly stopped posting.
• Volunteered at a local church, started as a camera operator, showed up consistently, learned a ton and eventually worked my way up to working as director of the broadcast team for a couple of services.

With all that being said, that's about where my resume is at right now. I've taken a pause on filming sports and events because I recently joined the football team to help my physicality in lacrosse, but I'm hoping to film the basketball team this year.

My little brother being a hustler like me recently started mowing lawns in our neighborhood for a price and honestly I'm kicking myself for not jumping on that one first (don't tell anyone I told you but it's going pretty well for the kid).

There's so many different hustles out there... selling snacks at school, mowing lawns, pressure washing driveways and even cleaning cars. For all the seasoned BiggerPockets folks hopefully reading this I was wondering if y'all have any hustle ideas or thoughts that you've been thinking over and saying, "Dang I shoulda done that when I was a kid." If that's you... then drop them in the replies! Thanks for your time, - Jackson