41-year-old teacher’s ‘kitchen table’ side hustle brings in $10,400 a month: When I don’t work, ‘the sales still come in’

Eight years ago, kindergarten teacher Becky Powell was growing restless on maternity leave.

A friend suggested she use her son’s naptime to make some extra cash, and pointed her toward an educational resource platform called Teachers Pay Teachers. There, Powell started making worksheets for her fellow teachers to buy and download, working largely from her couch or “kitchen table,” she says.