The worst thing that can happen to you as a teacher is not when your salary gets exhausted but when you have money making opportunities and you are ignorant of it.

I have seen many teachers who are talented and skilled but remained glued to just classroom teaching and retired like that without maximzing the money making opportunities hidden in the classroom.

There are at least 5 hidden money making opportunities in your classroom experience as a teacher which time won't permit me to share all but will talk on 2 of them.

SPEAKING
Many of us do not know that the words you speak every week to the students for free every month is also what people like Fela Durotoye has turned into money making machine. How do I mean?
Speaking is not just what you do in class as a teacher but also what you can turn into a business and become an expert in it so much that you earn at least 50,000 naira every month.
Most teachers have a lot of knowledge on several areas as a result of teaching different subjects. You can apply this same strategy and identify a particular area you are very good at and develop in that area. Let us say you love speaking to single ladies on how to find the right spouse and you just say it like an advice when female students come to your office or you have opportunity to speak to them on the assembly ground.

That knowledge can become a starting point for you to become a public speaker. Instead of just teaching in class, you can take it a step further and become a public speaker.
Start by organising free seminar with your students,go to churches and from there people start knowing you and calling you to come speak for a fee.
You can use your social media platform. Just start somewhere. Do not stay glued alone in class when you can create streams of income from it by starting a speaking business.

COACHING
As a teacher most times you interact one on one with students,you give them advice on some areas of their lives that needs improvement.
That advice is a major sign that you have ability to coach people if you understand how.
Have you not noticed that most of the students you advice come back and give testimonies of how you helped them through talking to them on the right thing to do.
You can also make.money doing this by coaching people having issues relating to what you can help them solve.

Do you know there are students confused about what career path to take and how to build their dreams career? You knew how choosing a career as a teacher was easy for you,why not turn that experience into a coaching business where you help them gain clarity of what they want.

I believe you will thank me months to come as long as you apply all I have said above.

If you want to really start any of the business above and you want to start making money from them using your classroom experience as a teacher comment below

Godstime Efeni
Personal Development Trained and Coach