Words of Wisdom

You should work hard for your employer, but you should also think about yourself and create your own security. That's what starting a side hustle is all about, and Tom's story illustrates this principle well.

At first, he was thinking like a good employee and put all the profit from these food experiments back into the till. That worked for a while, but one day he was mowing the pub garden lawn, he wondered why was he making food and not making the profit? After asking that question, it was a short transition to working for himself and starting his own micro pub.

Fun Fact

Tom often watched food programs on TV and saw a chef make scotch eggs with black pudding—and instead of deep frying them, he baked them. Tom didn’t have a deep fat fryer, but he had an oven, so he started making scotch eggs.

The great scotch egg experiment began with him charging £3.00 each ($4.50 USD), and he changed the recipe each time. He used Instagram and Facebook to post photos and a description of each day’s egg, so he built anticipation and a group of fans.

He eventually fell out of love with scotch eggs, but then discovered pork pies which were similar but easier to make.