“Pretty early on I realized I wasn’t in the career path that I wanted to be on… that experience really had me looking for other options…”
For Ryan Grant, a full-time job as an accountant was unfulfilling, and he sought change.
That’s when the 28-year-old turned back to his college side hustle. As a studentat Winona State University, Grant would sell used textbooks on Amazon and ship them to customers around the country for a profit of roughly $10,000 each year.
So, when Grant quit his job as an accountant, he restarted his reselling business. Grant sifts through the clearance aisles at Walmart and Target and purchases discounted products to later flip on Amazon. His purchases range across a variety of categories, including children’s toys to industrial hardware.
“I was putting in about 10 hours per week and I was making in the ballpark of $1,000 per month… I was confident that if I had the full-time hours to dedicate to selling online that I would be able to more or less scale that up,” Grant tells CNBC’s “Make It.”
Eventually, boxes upon boxes of products filled his home, and Grant rented a 725-foot warehouse for his business. Within the next few years, Grant’s reselling business achieved considerable success, making “well over $200,000 in sales per month.”
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