Sushan: "Upwork is great. A lot of people have made a lot of money in Upwork" He says it's difficult to get started because the company runs on a review-based system. When he first got started, Sushan applied on hundreds of projects and had no success until he realized that exact point. The hack around that is you need to figure out to find projects that if you search for in the filters, have keywords like 'urgent' or 'immediate' In those cases, clients are more likely to hire someone who already has five-star reviews.
Patrick Donley talks with Sean O’Dowd about why he thinks there is a better way to build wealth through starting a business and using the profits to buy real estate investments.
Sean graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and worked at Boston Consulting Group. He left behind this traditional path to success to take a bet on himself and built a one-man consulting shop and dumps all of his profits into real estate.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00 - Intro
09:28 - How buying a diamond engagement ring provided the impetus to start a consulting side hustle.
05:25 - What he learned working for one of the top consulting firms in the country.
05:25 - How he grew his side hustle into a one-man consulting shop that nets $500,000 per year.
12:57 - Why picking the right partner in life is so important.
24:04 - What his current real estate strategy is that has proven much more profitable?
33:18 - Why his first real estate investments didn’t pan out.
55:59 - Why does he think house hacking is a terrible idea?
And much, much more!
*Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences.
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