BUCKET 7 — Discovery Receipt + Bucket 4 Reality Check
Mon May 18
I Found a Teacher Making $10K But She's Doing It Wrong
A kindergarten teacher in Beaverton, Oregon makes $10K/month on Teachers Pay Teachers (CNBC verified). But she's leaving $800K on the table over five years because the marketplace owns her customer list. Here's the proof and the missing layer.
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Key takeaways
- The mechanism is real: a kindergarten teacher's $125K/year from worksheets is CNBC-verified. Ten hours a week. Still has her teaching job.
- Your document is her worksheet — every working adult has a sellable document on their work laptop (spreadsheet, checklist, template, SOP) they've rebuilt three times because coworkers keep asking how they made it.
- The marketplace was the test. The owned site is the asset. The gap is $800K over 5 years — same product, same starting point, different platform ownership.
- Move from marketplace → owned site + email list to compound instead of rent. TPT takes 15–45% of every sale. The list pays you forever.
Download the worksheet
One-page Belief Check: the mainstream marketplace belief, the contrarian reframe, and three prompts to find where this belief shows up in your work.
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