A side job is a way to earn extra income alongside your main job or main source of income. It’s a flexible and often creative way generate more money.

Running a laundry on the side can be a lucrative and rewarding business opportunity for those looking to earn some extra income.

That’s exactly what encouraged it Christian Sanya enter a side job after working as a full-time medical laboratory technologist for a salary of $76,000 per year, reports CNBC.

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In 2019, Sanya entered a side business by washing clothes through the on-demand laundry platform SouthShare. By 2022, she was making $46,000 from the platform.

With the additional income from SudShare, Sanya and her husband finally opened The laundry room in Lanham, Maryland – a company with 40 machines and four employees.

With that, the couple is now making around $24,000 a month.

“It’s not an easy part-time job, but if you like it, it’s easy money,” Sanya told CNBC. “But laundry has always been my thing… It doesn’t feel like work to me.”

Sanya still fulfills 12 hours of laundry requests per day. Her husband and laundry room attendants fill in the blanks while she is at work.

“You have to sacrifice a lot to know where you want to go, the end point will pay off,” says Sanya. “I gave up family time; I gave up my dates. I gave up a lot for SudShare at this point.”

Sanya sometimes brings her four children to The Laundry Room to show them the value of taking care of others.

“I refuse to accept that you cannot have good service in our community,” Sanya said. “I’m ready to change that, and I’m doing it, one laundromat at a time.”

A second location is currently in the works.

“I never thought this would happen,” Sanya added. “I never dreamed it up on paper or anything, but I’m building on what I want for the future.”