Only working part-time in the evening, the girl earns 100 million/month thanks to her side job

It's just a part-time job in the evening, but her side income is so high that everyone admires when she knows it.
“Even though I do two jobs at the same time, sometimes I feel overloaded, but it also trains me in the skills of arranging work and arranging time so that I can still ensure my health, work, especially my side job. affects the main work”, Ms. Le Thi Ngoc (born in 1993, HCMC) confided.

After graduating from the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City, Ms. Ngoc soon became an employee of a bank in the city. Although her job is very stable and according to the profession she studied, she still has the intention of starting a business of something according to her hobby.

Loved pizza, she immediately made it and sold it to the market. However, her homemade pizza cannot "compete" with the big brands that have a strong brand in the market. After 2 months of testing, she realized that this direction had no future.

Ms. Ngoc embarked on making avocado toasted banana bread to sell to the market.

“Looking for a new product to make, I accidentally enjoyed a banana bread with avocado. Seeing that the cake was quite good, she also tinkered with the recipe online and made it herself for her husband and friends to enjoy. Everyone encouraged me to do it to sell,” she said.

With everyone's encouragement and looking for new products to do business, Ms. Ngoc immediately started working to sell. Starting to make banana cakes in early 2020, at first, her avocado baked banana cake also sold few customers, but compared to pizza, it was a very good sign. "It's just a new brand, has not had a foothold in the market, I think it takes time to reach more customers," she said.

Orders are not many but keep going. Every day, during the day, she goes to work at the bank, and when she comes home at night, she makes cakes from 19 pm to 1 am to have enough cakes to pay the orders.

After 6 months, there were more retail customers, so Ms. Ngoc started looking for wholesale customers. “At this time, the orders increased very quickly, causing me to be overwhelmed, because during the day I still work as a bank, and at night, I can't pay customers back when I come home to bake cakes. I started hiring seasonal workers to bake cakes,” she said.

She is advising a customer at the fair, the customer is tasting banana bread with avocado.

After about 2 years of operation, 9x female now has two branches in Ho Chi Minh City with 4 bakers and sales staff. Every month, she sells to the market about 1,500-2,000 banana cakes in the area of ​​Ho Chi Minh City and the southern provinces. The revenue is about 100-150 million VND/month from selling banana cakes, and during the day, she still works as a bank employee.

Talking about the secret to helping the side business thrive like that, Ms. Ngoc believes that selling comes from the heart. All raw materials are selected, especially bananas will be imported from green bananas and left to ripen naturally. "Although when the banana is ripe, it will lose a lot and increase the cost, but I still accept it to ensure that the ingredients, the 'soul' of the cake, are always guaranteed," she affirmed.

Besides, every customer who orders cakes from her house, she listens and reads each customer's feedback. Thanks to that, there are customers who buy cakes up to 2-3 times per week.

Thanks to selling banana cakes, she has an extra hundred million dong every month.

When asked if working in two occupations at the same time is overloaded, Ms. Ngoc honestly admits that sometimes she feels overwhelmed. “For 8 hours of office hours, I give maximum priority to work at the bank. After I get home, I will check the bakery's books, product quality, customer care. Because the bakery is operated independently, with staff for different stages, I am only responsible for checking and supervising, much less strenuous than the first days," she shared.

Every day, she learns and reinvents herself. In the future, she plans to continue to develop more desserts such as yogurt, flan, and new drinks and cakes.

Moreover, she hopes to develop more agent system, open new branches to double revenue, increase number of employees, create more jobs for employees, increase agricultural consumption. Vietnamese property and make a small contribution to community work. Because now, her bakery every month deducts a part of the profit to help those in need.