Chris Pyle spends almost all of his work days wearing a white tank top and boxer shorts, sitting in a recliner. An unusual environment for a mechanic, but profitable. And Pyle began to answer questions from strangers on the web in 2006 JustAnswer about breakdowns in their cars. This is how he started his business, while working for Ford full time. In the end, he opted for his extra job, today he bills more than 150,000 euros annually.
In a short time it became a big business. He earned 450 euros in his first month, then doubled his salary in November and then doubled it again. He left his full-time job at Ford Motors, where he earned €68,000 a year. In 2012, thanks to JustAnswer, he surpassed his salary.
Pyle earned 160,000 euros in 2023, an average of 13,000 euros per month, on JustAnswer, according to documents that have been verified by the media. CNBC Make It. In the United States, Their monthly income is more than triple the national median of monthly income from side jobs and mechanic salary combined.
According to the North American media, Pyle’s new work It has also shaped his life.. He and his wife bought a 34-hectare piece of land for €118,000 in Dickson County, Tennessee, where he lives with his family. Pyle also bought a motorhome and is building a second home, largely by himself, on the property, all funded by his work at JustAnswer.
Family time
Although he works eight to ten hours a day, seven days a week, set your own schedulewhich allows him to be present for his family, this entrepreneur tells the media. “I was a Boy Scout leader for eight years… I was a soccer coach,” Pyle, 45, tells Make It. “I could log off right now and go play a video game with my son or go swimming in the pool.”
Pyle discovered extra work naturally. Ford hired and trained him as a transmission technician, and funded his certifications. I was virtually researching how to fix a transmission and found an answer provided by another mechanic In Just Answer, the protagonist of this story told.
Thus, he signed up for this platform and started answering some questions in the afternoon after work, he adds. He liked him challenge of diagnosing an engine you “couldn’t see, touch or smell”and realized he had a knack for virtually helping people solve their mechanical problems.
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