Forget the side hustle grind. Ella Love found something better, and she’s only working three hours a day.

Love, 51, spent 13 years teaching in New York public schools before she decided she’d had enough. The class sizes, the funding shortages, the discipline problems—it was a fast-track to burnout. “The stress came from large class sizes, not having time for anything, discipline problems, limited funds for materials,” she told the NY Post . “It’s extremely different in America.”

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So in 2017, she found an article about professional cuddling , paid $300 for an online course, and tried it on the side while still teaching. Within six months, she took a sabbatical and never went back.

Eight years later, she charges $150 an hour, works roughly three hours a day, and pulls in anywhere from $60,000 to $100,000 a year.

This Woman Makes Up to $100,000 a Year as a Professional Cuddler

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