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What’s Your Side Hustle?
Pamela Slim over at Escape From Cubicle Nation has the answer.
My friend’s teenage daughter informed her the other day that she was enrolling in a nail technician class at high school.
The friend, who has been prepping her daughter for a good college education since she was a toddler, was less than thrilled.
“Why are you taking a beauty school class instead of an advanced placement academic class? Wouldn’t that be better for college?”
“MOM,” she said in an exasperated tone that only teenagers do perfectly, “Doing nails is my side hustle to help pay for college. I can do it anytime, in the dorms, and there is a ready market if I need some extra cash.”
My friend went from worry to admiration for the enterprising spirit of her daughter.
If you are still working in a corporate job, a side hustle is a great way to test and try new business ideas. It can also be part of your backup plan in case you lose your job. Examples of side hustles I have seen from corporate employee clients and friends over the years:
* Web design
* Home organizing
* Writing and editing
* Coaching
* Computer maintenance
* Massage
* Tax preparation
* Personal training
* Yoga
* Consulting
* Catering
* PhotographyPhoto by jenikahycc.
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perolito on April 19th, 2010 9:38 am
I would like to hear why would you think web design and photography can be side jobs. They are careers as any other. You go to school, prepare yourself, get a job, etc. Not everyone can be a web designer or photographer. Buying a $3000 camera doesn’t make you a photographer, neither does buying photoshop and applying filters to images. Web design is not just putting a couple of pretty images together and going to godaddy.
Angela Shupe on April 19th, 2010 6:45 pm
Even if she wasn’t going to turn it into a ‘side hustle’ I don’t get why her mom would get mad at her for trying something that was of interest to her in the first place. I get the whole idea behind this article, have something on the side for when times get tough, but what I read was mostly a mom who got a little mad because her daughter might have done something other than the plan she made for her. :-(
Steve O on April 19th, 2010 10:33 pm
“Perolito” should maybe unclench their buttocks a bit.
Web designer and photographer are both careers. AND they are things that can be done very flexibly, part-time, on the side, unlike say Forklift Operator or Cashier.
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