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25-year-old Olympic hopeful works 3 jobs and makes $11,000 a month

This story is part of CNBC Make It's  Millennial Money  series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money.

With over 50 items on his daily to-do list, Jake Spotswood has his days planned out to a T — a necessity for a 25-year-old juggling a day job in strategy consulting with training for the 2024 Olympic trials.

As a professional pole vaulter, Spotswood goes straight from his 9-to-5 to nightly training sessions at the George Mason University indoor track in Fairfax, Virginia, where he volunteers as an assistant coach in exchange for access to the facilities.

A recent graduate of Virginia Tech with a double master's in leadership studies and business administration under his belt, Spotswood expects to make around $94,000 this year as a consultant in the D.C. area.

Add to that the sponsorships funding his pole vaulting season and a growing online personal training business, and Spotswood anticipates earning around $11,000 a month.

Spotswood picked up the habit of meticulously planning out his day in high school and has refined it to a point where he knows everything he'll do the next day, from exactly which audiobook he'll listen to as he commutes to work to the tasks he'll be doing at his day job. A habit tracking app keeps his finances, athletics and meal plan in check, too.

"Everything is lined up to where I can check myself throughout the day and say, have I done X, Y Z?" he tells CNBC Make It. "Because at the end of the day, those little things that you do on a daily basis are going to add up to something big in the end."

Growing up in Fairhope, Alabama, Spotswood says he was always a daredevil, spending much of his time cliff jumping and wakeboarding. So when he spotted "kids launching

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