Editing Blog/2024-02-27/Teenage Entrepreneurship (section)

== Dollar Strength ==

[[File:Chennai-to-Vellore.png|thumb|alt=A Google Maps screenshot of the distance from Chennai to Vellore|What I would travel on Saturdays to teach]]

As an example of the first of these, when I was about 19, I taught a Mathematics coaching class some weekends. This was a crazy operation. I'd wake up early in the morning, they'd drive me the 2.5 hrs there, I'd run coaching for two 2-hour sessions, then break for lunch, then coach for two 2-hour sessions again, and then they'd drive me back. This thing paid me either ₹125/hr or ₹250/hr only when I was teaching, not when I was traveling - which, to be fair, was a princely sum for me back then.

To compare against that, I made a few dollars a day for the simple act of logging on, browsing my friends' blogs and then clicking an ad. I made $20 (or ₹1000) per sponsored review I wrote on any of my web properties (heh heh), something that took very little effort, maybe half an hour of sitting in front of a computer and making up some bullshit about a product.