Good day everyone. How you all doing? I hope everything is okay.
Side hustle or part time jobs I have tried?
I have only engaged in side hustle. It was a very nice experience and wonderful to do. I engaged in a peanut business. I learnt the skill from my neighbor, who was a professional carter. She taught me the steps and the materials needed in producing the peanuts.
I was in 100 level in the university when I started the peanut business. At first, it seemed liked no one wanted to buy the peanuts, but I kept pushing. Little by little I started get a little amount of customers. I gave the peanut to people to keep at their shop and sell for me.
Every single day more people would demand for the peanut. It came to the point that I was producing it every day. With the help of my siblings, I could produce it in bulk. I made a huge amount of profit every day. I would some timed produce it and keep at home for personal use.
I used the money gathered to get some essential things for myself and sometimes for my parent and siblings. My customer never complained about the taste, they always enjoyed it.
From making of peanut, I also engaged in making of chin-chin. Duo, I did not always produced it in bulk people were also demanding for it. I had a brand name, it was DE-TASTY PEANUTS AND CHIN-CHIN.
The business started affecting my educational life as sometimes I slept late at night. I would sometimes skip classes to go about my business every day. My friends started to complain about it. They said that I was putting more time in my business. I told them that I will keep up with them. The result for the semester was out, I managed to pass all the courses but the marks were low.
This made me stop the business. I told all my customer the reason, they were understanding and supportive of my ideas. I began to focus more on my studies. When I have a free day, I sometimes produced the peanuts and sell.
LESSON
Education comes before business.
Thank you.
