751: The Most Random Ways You’ve Made Extra Money

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Hey, Nick and Side Hustle Nation. It's Joe Saul-Sehy from Stacking Benjamins, the greatest money show on Earth, where people like Nick tell, uh, some great stories about ways that they've not just made money, but the way they save money, the way they earn invest, make more money at work, all the above. My weird side hustle was actually when I was a teenager. I often had many, many jobs as a teenager. We didn't have any type of allowance. I think if you're not in the country, you couldn't do this one 'cause here's what happened. I helped load chicken trucks. Uh, [laughs] this side hustle, I don't even remember how much I was getting paid, but I got hired to go to a farm and load a truck with chickens, and they were in these coops, and my job was to take the chicken out of its coop and shove it into the travel coop, where it would go get loaded on the