Hafeez Lakhani
Hafeez Lakhani runs elite college admissions firm Lakhani Coaching that he started eight years ago.
His clients pay on average $35,000 for his services, which involve test prep and application help.
He often has to tell clients they can t cheat the system and has people fly to NY to work with him.
Hafeez Lakhani, 38, who runs elite college admissions firm Lakhani Coaching, described his clients as the 0.1% of the 1% which sometimes even includes Saudi royalty.
Families spend on average $35,000 with the firm, he told Insider, in the hopes of angling for a prime college perch. Each year, he said the company works with around 100 of the world s wealthiest teenagers.
Chris Rose
Since 1979, Popovich and his team have repossessed 1,986 planes and helicopters.
This is what his job is like, as told to freelance writer Jenny Powers.
Growing up in Northwest Indiana, I never took my father s advice except once. I was 16 years old when he told me to get my pilot s license because it might come in handy one day. I did.
After graduating from high school, I went to Indiana University for a semester, but school wasn t for me. Instead, I started flying for Braniff International Airways. It turned out that wasn t for me either. I hated wearing a jacket and tie, and I felt more like a bus driver than a commercial pilot. When I got the chance to become a partner in a small Caribbean charter operation in St. Kitts, I jumped on it.
Alice Everdeen
Alice Everdeen is a 29-year-old voice-over artist in Austin, Texas.
After years working in radio and TV, Everdeen quit her full-time job and now can make thousands a week as a freelancer.
This is what her job is like, as told to freelance writer Rose Maura Lorre.
I launched my full-time voice-over career just last year, but even as a kid, I was always doing voice work in some way. I would constantly mimic the people I heard in commercials and on the radio and I made tons of prank phone calls, but I never really thought about it as something I could do as a career.
Angela Mou
Angela Mou is an LA-based entrepreneur and founder of online shop Elevate Jane, which sells accessories for smoking.
She works from her living room and brought in over $117,000 in two months during the 2020 holiday season.
This is what her job is like, as told to freelancer writer Danielle Bauter.
I was cruising Instagram one day in 2017 when I came across these beautiful ceramic pipes and bongs, and wondered why no one had put them in a shop. I started looking for interesting and unique pieces and the more I looked, the more I found. I became obsessed with the idea of starting a shop for a good two weeks, and finally I decided to make it happen.
Eric Michael Pearson
In 2020, she made over $1 million in revenue by selling digital copywriting courses.
Here s how she started and runs her business, as told to freelance writer Lindsay Yaw Rogers.
I ve made my fortune from my flaws laziness being the dominant one. In 2020 alone, I made $1 million in revenue through my copywriting business, using the brand pillar of laziness as a key factor in my success.
I call myself a copywriting expert because I m not for hire. I ve retired my services and now only offer content online: two mini courses available year-round that help people build great emails, bios and about pages, and two larger, downloadable email copywriting courses with open-and-close enrollment periods, and an annual membership called Shrimp Club where members can get my personal input on their content and business.