10-Year-Old Earns Lakhs With Unique Before-School Side Hustle
Wake up early, eat your breakfast, manage your side-hustle business, and catch the bus to school. Believe it or not, that is the daily schedule of 10-year-old Jacob Heitmann who runs a side business before heading to school, and it's earning him thousands of dollars!
A 3D printing business
Before leaving for school, Heitmann goes to his family's basement computer to start working on orders for his 3D printing business.
The fourth-grader selects the design, which could vary from a rainbow plastic skull to the Chase Tower in Chicago, and sets the 3D printer to work.?
Since most prints take at least two hours, the machine runs while he attends classes.
Heitmann shares with CNBC Make It?that he sells his 3D printed toys to classmates, through his website, and on his Etsy shop, with many toys priced under $20 (approximately Rs 1666) each.?
He?spends about three hours each day on his business and has earned over $1,700 (approximately Rs 1.42 lakhs) since January.
How the 10-yo set up his business
In July of last year, Heitmann persuaded his parents to purchase his first 3D printer, a $300 "Ender" model from the Chinese company Creality, as a birthday gift.?
With this printer, Heitmann began learning from YouTube tutorials and online lessons on Outschool.com.?
He later requested a second device, a Bambu Lab P1S multi-color printer priced at $949, as the Ender printer could only print one color at a time.
In April, a family friend commissioned Heitmann to create twelve 11-inch replicas of the Chase Tower in Chicago for a retirement party.?
Originally planning to charge $20 per piece, Heitmann's dad suggested raising the price to $45 to account for labor costs, as each model took nine hours to print.
At the revised price, Heitmann generated $540 (approximately Rs 45,009) in revenue, which he plans to save for college expenses or to invest in purchasing another 3D printer.
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