Wake up early, eat your breakfast, manage your busy business, and catch the bus to school. Believe it or not, this is the daily schedule of 10-year-old Jacob Heitman who runs a side business before school, and it’s making him thousands of dollars!

3D printing business

Before school, Heitmann heads to his family’s basement computer to start working on orders for his 3D printing business.

Jacob Heitman/CNBC

The fourth grader chooses the design, which can vary from a rainbow plastic skull to Chicago’s Chase Tower, and 3D printer To work

Since most prints take at least two hours, the machine runs while he goes to class.

shares with Heitmann CNBC Make it That he sells his 3D-printed toys to classmates, through his website, and on his Etsy shop, each costing less than $20 (roughly Rs. 1,666).

He spends about three hours every day on his business and has earned $1,700 (roughly Rs. 1.42 lakh) since January.

10-How did you set up your business?

In July of last year, Hetman convinced his parents to buy him his first 3D printer, a $300 “Ender” model from Chinese company Creality, as a birthday present.

With this printer, Heitmann began learning from YouTube tutorials and online lessons at Outschool.com.

3D printer

He later requested a second device, a Bambu Lab P1S multi-color printer that costs $949, ​​because the Ender printer can only print one color at a time.

In April, a family friend commissioned Heitman to build a twelve-by-11-inch replica of Chase Tower in Chicago for a retirement party.

Originally planning to charge $20 per piece, Heitmann’s father suggested raising the price to $45 to account for labor costs, since each model took nine hours to print.

At the revised price, Heitmann generated $540 (roughly Rs. 45,009) in revenue, which he plans to save for college expenses or invest in buying another 3D printer.

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