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I quit my job then a pandemic happened. I thought I'd made the worst decision of my life, but it led to my dream career.
Tammie Ash quit her engineering job just before the world shut down. This is how she went from havi…
Tammie Ash
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I get paid to play with dogs and figure out how they communicate. Here are the qualifications I needed and the challenges of working in a niche field.
Scientific researcher Dr. Juliane Bräuer runs the DogStudies lab in Jena, Germany where she designs…
Ralph Jones
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I get paid to stand in line for people. Here's how I turned a tedious task into a $25-an-hour business.
Jennifer Goff, the founder of Skip The Line, started her business offering to hold spaces for peopl…
Nayanika Guha
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I opened a trampoline park 10 years ago and grew it to 1,300 franchises and $800 million a year in revenue — here's how
Michael Browning created Urban Air, a network of indoor-trampoline adventure parks. During COVID, h…
Chris Stokel-Walker
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I bought a one-way ticket to a new city to chase my dream. Here's how I got freelance work and free housing from my network to do it.
Chris Naydenov left Cyprus to be a photographer in Berlin. He volunteered at a hostel for free acco…
Kezia Rice
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I coach intimate scenes for TV shows like 'Sex Education.' Here's how I made the career switch from being an executive assistant.
Jenefer Odell completed a Los Angeles-based course in lockdown to become an intimacy coordinator. S…
Jodie Nesling
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I look after skaters on the ice at a rink in London. Here's how training to be a figure skater led me to a job I love.
Molly Lipson trained as a figure skater and appeared in Christmas pantomimes on ice. This is how sh…
Molly Lipson
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We quit our jobs in TV to start a coffee shop. When we decided to do it on a boat, we had no idea what we were in for.
Joanna and Victor Gould, both 35, quit their jobs to fulfil their dream of owning a coffee shop. Wh…
Aimee Pearcy
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Side hustles for introverts: which remote online businesses don't require face-to-face interaction and how to start them
Online remote side hustles like blogging or UX design can be money-making opportunities for introve…
Kiera Fields
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I made as much playing cornhole as I did teaching elementary school, so I quit my job to go full-time
Rosie Streker was a Florida elementary-school teacher when she first got into cornhole. This is how…
Ryan S. Gladwin
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I help cannabis businesses prevent robberies. Spending 12 years as a cop taught me how to think like a criminal.
Chris Eggers was a San Francisco Police Department officer for 12 years before he quit to set up Ca…
Leo Bear-McGuinness
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I design aquariums for megamansions in Los Angeles that cost up to $250,000 — here's how I got my start
Nic Tiemens' first aquarium-technician job was cleaning Michael Jordan's fish tank. He later found …
Chris Stokel-Walker
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These 21-year-old twins launched a home pizza-kit business that made nearly $400,000 in under a year
As restaurants reopened, Doughboys Pizza founders Luke and Owen Buckmaster also expanded with B2B c…
Isabella Cipirska
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I burned out working 4 jobs. This is how I rearranged my life to get away from hustle culture.
Rochi Zalani got a full-time job before graduation and worked long hours after it, determined to he…
Rochi Zalani
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I created a cheese advent calendar and have sold almost 750,000 of them in 5 years. Here's how I did it while working full time.
Annem Hobson saw that there were no cheese advent calendars and made her own at Christmas 2015. She…
Jack Needham
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I quit digital nomad life after experiencing 4 downsides that no one talks about
Celina Bhandari spent a year living as a digital nomad. She describes the challenges she faced, how…
Alyshia Hull
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I'm a fortune-cookie writer. I meditate every day to get in the right headspace.
Matt Williams and his team aim to write at least 10 fortunes a day. When they do a campaign, they w…
Ryan S. Gladwin
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I'm an Adele impersonator who makes at least $660 per gig. Here's how a BBC skit with her made my career take off.
Katie Markham, 39, got her big break singing with Adele for BBC's Graham Norton special when the si…
Kimberley Bond
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I'm a professional 'Santa service provider.' My clients work year-round and the youngest is only 24. Here's what my job is like.
Catherine Harvey represents scores of Santas of all ages — the youngest is 24 — and from many profe…
Jack Needham
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I'm a TV chef with my own London restaurant. Here's how beating thousands to win a competition led to a dramatic career change at 30.
Ravinder Bhogal was a freelance beauty writer when she won a competition on Gordon Ramsay's 'The F …