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Future Princess Meghan Markle Has An Awesome Side Hustle

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Apr. 6 2018, Published 3:17 a.m. ET

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As we learned from our recent report Why Millennial Women Buy 40% of those surveyed claimed to have a side hustle. And even though she is about to become a princess, 36-year-old Meghan Markle is no exception.

When the former Suits star was working as an actress she had a side hustle and she even made some money from it. She was a freelance calligrapher and even taught calligraphy, gift-wrapping and book-binding at a Paper Source store in Beverley Hills in between auditions. “She hosted a group of customers and instructed them during a two-hour class on how to do calligraphy,” Winnie Park, the company’s CEO, informs PEOPLE“She would have advised customers on projects — from wedding invitations to creating personalized stationery to gift-wrapping.”

Markle even had a few celebrity clients including Robin Thicke and then-wife Paula Patton (she wrote their wedding invitations.) In an old interview, Markle talked about her love of calligraphy as it is a lost art.

Though she won’t have much time for a side hustle now, when she was an actress working her way up the career ladder caligraphy was a great side gig. As we learned in the report, these part-time jobs or small side businesses create a “dual” identity for many millennials. Plus, according to The Penny Hoarder rates for envelope addressing range from $2 to $5 each, you can make some decent money. Just be sure you have good handwriting and plenty of pens!

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