Door to door sales was one of the most mentally tasking jobs I've ever done. Constant rejection takes quite the toll on your psyche if you're not fully prepared
Tried door to door for 2 weeks as an internship abroad after preparing for 6 months. Left the 2nd week completely emotionally destroyed, 85% of the people that went with me had a similar experience. It is brutal.
@@nikolagrudev3128 Its brutal indeed. I have been in hospitality business for 8 years and its taken a toll on my psyche. But i will endure it more than others since I'm the best of the best.
For me the most disingenuous part is how little time side hustles are supposed to take. If you want money out of them, you NEED to put in a full time effort from them. The only truly passive one I've found is dividend investing, and that requires a fair amount of capital to start.
As with most things in the market time is more important than how much you put in initially. Don’t get put off by how much it takes to start seeing a check every month
Dividend investing can actually pay off for even lower class investors. I think the real problem is that if you're starting on the lower end and not actively increasing your income to at least upper middle class levels, then you're looking at about 30 years of very disciplined investing before you actually get to reap the rewards of your hard work. It's way safer than any "get rich quick" scheme, but 99% of people in their 20's and 30's will think you're insane for proposing that.
For my side hustle I put in maybe 2 hrs a year and it generates 600-800k for me. It works. Initially I worked quite hard for a period of 9 years. It has paid me 10 million in taxable income over 12 years.
Jim Cramer calls that UPOD - Under Promise Over Deliver. He says his goal is to ruin a good thing but, if you analyze his script and presentation, it's actually to save you from heartache and frustration that comes from not thinking clearly enough.
From a sociological perspective, the fact that side hustles is in the public consciousness at all says that the average person is uncertain and worried about income. That alone should be a bad sign. Most normal people don't work extra jobs out of the desire for more money, but the necessity for more money. Something is going wrong in our economy.
@@wintermint77 you're so brainwashed.....any *ism is not the problem..it's globalist figuring out ways to exploit the *isms cause every *ism looks good on paper and in theory. World Economic Forum, bankers, old money .....and power. As you get older, research and become wiser, it will make more sense kid.
Yes, no increased pay, because it's an employer that has an owner or board of directors that chooses to pay themselves better than the people who actually do the work. Good place to start for income, but you will never be paid for your full value, the owner holds on to that
"Making up for the lack of increased pay for the past 50 years" Please be happy, we virtue signal at you so that you can be happy - ah and here's a 0% shackle... I mean loan that will make you feel like you can afford overpriced ish, when you're in fact just making the virtue signallers richer by the day.
Hearing a youtuber say it takes hard work AND luck is so refreshing to hear. So many people brush off the fact that luck has a major impact on almost any gig or profession. Sure you need to work hard but there are also thousands of others working just as hard if not harder and just were not lucky enough to find a break yet
There’s luck, but there’s also opportunity. When an opportunity comes you better pull the trigger or it’ll pass you by. I think that being alert and always in search of an opportunity is important
When someone has already said it better than I could there isn't much point in my trying-- "This is ten percent luck Twenty percent skill Fifteen percent concentrated power of will Five percent pleasure Fifty percent pain And a hundred percent reason to remember the name" _Remember the Name_ Matthew Ryan Maginn / Mike Shinoda / Takbir Khalid Bashir ...and even then sometimes it just never happens.
Nah bruh you just gotta grind 25 hours a day and have no social life, no family life, no romantic life, and basically no well being whatsoever. Trust me Gary vee said it will be worth when your rich and still hate your life.
I had a side hustle one summer. Scrapping. I was driving around, picking up metal off of the sides of roads and turning it in for scrap weight. Even got to the point I was separating, cleaning and melting it down for more value
Your lawn mowing example is... Odd. I had a lawn mowing business as a teen. I made absolute bank. And it wasn't through "door to door" sales. I just made large (8.5x11) bright green flyers and stuck them on the door of every house in a four block radius. Did that every year. The cost of the flyers was tiny - half of what I made with a single lawn. One guy told me that he had 4 lawn mowing flyers, but picked me because mine was "funny." I started mowing lawns when I was too young to get a "real" job, but kept doing it for years because it was just so lucrative, and didn't take much time. Best side hustle I ever had.
Sounds like you would’ve made a very very good marketer. This example fits what he’s saying in the video perfectly. Think about it. You completely cleaned out those other people’s flyers. So it wasn’t that lawn mowing was a good hustle, it’s that your ability to get business from advertising was exceptional (or at least better than everyone else doing what you were doing).
Lawn mowing makes sense (or something like it) if you don't have proper access to the traditional labor market. I think this video makes the assumption that you already have a full time job and are supporting yourself purely off that income
A lot of youtube influencing is in itself a side-hustle for some people. You see a lot of encouragement for this not just because there can be benefits, but there's also the desire to validate yourself in your own decisions, so you try to bring people on board in advocating your lifestyle to other people. There's a lot of positive feedback in that.
Really good point I hadn't thought of before. I wonder how much of the side hustle phenomenon is caused by people looking for validation. They determine that validation is too hard to come by in their regular line of work and look elsewhere for it.
Ah the 'multiple streams of income' story... bluntly the modern economy rewards specialisation. You will maximise hourly income by specialising. What you should do is invest in increasing your education and skills, particularly in rare and valuable areas, and invest responsibly. But no one wants to hear that, they think they can build a Shopify store that will make them a millionaire
While this is completely true, there is the dilemma of increased specialization not being for everybody. Many specialized jobs, such as a React software engineer, are highly skilled positions that only a select percentage of society could even do. The average door dash driver isn’t intellectually trained or skilled enough to do many of these specialized jobs. The ones who are lack the money to invest in themselves.
So I make jewelry as my side hustle and I’m glad finally people are telling the truth about side hustles. Even though I have a 9 to 5 working from home, the work I do is a lot and I’m usually exhausted by the end of the day. I’m also starting to dislike my side hustle and I don’t put a lot of effort in creating my content anymore.
And the time adds up quick, there are so many hours in the day and we are only human. It takes some pretty nuts willpower to do 12 hours of actual hard work per day. I'm not even convinced it's possible
This is true. The average millionaire might have around 7 streams of income, but they're all subsidiaries of a main company. If they're honest they will tell you that you need to focus on a single thing for years.
@@jas_bataille yeah it's a struggle it kind of makes you think you have to do 7 different things 😅😅 and it's a huge mind fuck but it's more effective to focus on one or two things and learn investing and obviously money management is key as well.
I would add one more aspect. If the side hustle improves your skills and/or makes you a known person in your regular job field, you don’t have to earn any money from it directly to make the side hustle worth it.
I think this is an incredibly important aspect. It could even be that they just hone your skills in something you find interesting or might have use for in the future even if you don't like it.
Exactly. I own a business as a home inspector and do contract inspection work for firms that work directly with banks. My full time position is a construction right-of-way inspector for a big metropolitan city. Doing the side hustles for the bank inspections has exposed me to other people in the home inspection industry and also works off my current license, not to mention I get to see new building practices at work and view some spectacular homes.
This! Every side project or hustle I work on benefits me several times. Usually it’s a combination of making extra money, learning a particular tech, and giving me material for publication.
Spot on! The best strategy for a side hustle is for it to be the embryo of a potential new business doing what you like. This is one of the reasons I opened my channel. Thanks for the video.
My brother in law did that. He used to work for the local council and hated it. He very slowly worked up to having a tailoring business from his house.
RUclips is no different than Uber. RUclips sets ground rules for you, they hold the power to cancel you, and they set your pay rate with Google AdSense. Uber does the same thing for drivers on it's platform. It's just a platform to work on, not an employer. Until you understand that you don't understand the gig economy.
Hustle culture can make you rich if you do one important thing, abandon your morality and your conscience. That's how you succeed in MLM's or selling stuff on eBay. You have to be willing to exploit your friends and families. You have to be willing to scalp GPU's, XBox's, PS5's. If you can push down your sense of shame and guilt, it's easy to make money. That's how most of those motivational speakers and hustle & grind influencers got their money. They have no problem telling people to spend their emergency savings to buy their courses or shill pump and dump cryptos to their fans. You can do that too, just give up your conscience and morals.
I'm so glad to see this. Hustle culture is highly overblown. You hit many valid points and no one got rich by working 7 jobs. Multiple income streams come from investing earned money in appreciating assets. The only thing I disagreed with was hinting that starting a business is also a bad idea. While not all businesses will be successful, starting one and growing it is a path to wealth.
@@quinnschroetlin business success is essentially a matter of there being a demand for something, and the business being capable to deliver efficiently, competitively (or monopolistically) enough. Personal satisfaction with the subject can be a trap, lure people into areas with unfavorable demand/supply ratios, unless one's personal tastes in the activities turned into a business is highly eccentric, or one's capability to deliver is truly exceptional, or one has somehow acquired a celebrity status that generate demand. All of which is also to say that the chances are lower than in less appealing activities with enough demand.
I think the key is to find side gigs that overlap in terms of skills and experience, with your day job, assuming that is what you want as a career. In my case, I’m in software development and I intend that to be my career. So I went out and started doing freelance work on the side to earn extra money. I’ve been doing it for 2 years now and it’s been excellent, both as an income boost and a way to expand and refine my skillset
I started making RUclips videos and discovered that I love video editing. So a year and a half ago I decided to do video editing as a side hustle. I made a nice video editing portfolio page with a video intro, then found clients via cold emailing and UpWork. In three months I had 4 clients and was making as much money as my 9-5 job. Four months after that, my job fired me (COVID-related reasons) but everything was dandy. I became a freelance video editor and moved closer to my family to slash my rent in half (DC -> SC). I work with people who love my work and I love what I do. So for me, trying a side hustle made me find a job that I enjoy doing. Should've tried it years ago!
@@markk3453 I wouldn't call it luck. I spent years honing my craft of video editing and on average I would get 1 response for every 1000 cold emails. I'm consistent, timely and very good at what I do. This has lead to my clients referring me to other people!
I am a high income earner ( not trying to brag, over $500k a year ) and I totally agree, I made all my income from specializing in my day job ( high end software engineer ), which then allow me to buy multiple properties which I can rent out, and buy stocks. I have tried to start some side business ideas on the side and every one of them failed. My main job is the only real thing keep me afloat, everything else is just play money and secondary.
Bro u realize side jobs are generally occupations or business that generate money outside your standard career. Just glancing at your paragraph i see two successful side jobs. That would be the rental property and stocks.
@@chattingman8546 I would hardly call day trading and landlording "jobs." Unless you're down at the rentals actively servicing the properties and providing direct services for the renters you're just managing an asset. And trading is really just gambling lol.
I've always said my part time job is working overtime shifts. Everything I need is already there and the time and a half pay is much more than most side hustles
7:10 rich guy here. You’re right on. I got my “multiple streams of income” by becoming a rich guy in focusing on ONE. then after I started my business I got more income streams by utilizing my wealth.
I'm 50/50 on what you said. The end of the video when you said "to work on your side hustle and turn it into a business while you're still working". I agree 100% with you. I work 80 to 90 hrs a week and have been doing it for about a year (40 at my job and the rest at my shop). At my J.O.B. I make good money plus benefits, however I hate it. I got into the mindset to start a side hustle, than I realized why not hire people to do the physical work, while I build the brand. Most people look short term on I made an extra $500 on the weekend. But you gave up your time. If you can make $1000 extra during the week after paying labor/materials and still have your weekends, why not push for that? It takes an extreme amount off effort and patience to build a business while working a 9 to 5. And that's why most people do the "side hustles" for short term then get burnt-out on it and quit. Moral of the story work your ass off, build a long-term business not a short-term hustle.
That's an interesting point that he did fail to mention. But I want to ask to reiterate...So, you are looking at 40 hours past overtime to make an extra $1,000? Why not quit your job, and spend 60 hours on the business? If quitting is not an option, why not switch jobs that allow overtime? You'll earn more than $1000 for 40 additional hours at a new job with OT. Also, while I applaud your effort, I will say that your strategy is not feasible for most people. Those with kids are disqualified. If you have a partner, you are disqualified. Any social life you have on weekdays is gone. Yes, you have your weekends and are not physically tired from labor, but your mind has to be so fried that you cannot even enjoy a weekend like someone who only works 40 hours, making $45,000 a year. This begs the question of whether this is a legitimate strategy or chasing money so hard that you give up the more essential things in life to receive money that does not show up until years later.
I'm not even kidding when I say that the market crash and high inflation have me really stressed out and worried about retirement. I've been in the red for a while now and although people say these crisis has it perks, I'm losing my mind but I get it, Investing is a long-term game, so I try to focus on the long term.
I cannot focus on the long run when I should be retiring in 4years, you see l've got good companies in my portfolio and a good amount invested, but my profit has been stalling, does it mean this recession/ unstable market doesn't provide any calculated risk opportunities to make profit?
There are a lot of strategies to make tongue wetting profit especially in a down market, but such sophisticated trades can only be carried out by proper market experts
I totally agree, I have been consistent with my profit regardless of the market conditions, I got into the market early 2019 and the constant downtrends and losses discouraged me so I sold off, got back in Dec 2020 this time with guidance from an investment adviser that was recommended by a popular economist on a popular forum, long story short, its been years now and I've gained over $850k following guidance from my investment adviser.
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I wanted to fokus on the stock market as a side hustle, that was about 4 years ago. I learnd more and more about it, learned to code, proper money management (not just in stocks but in general), and discovered a really deep passion for numbers and statistiks. So I ended up taking every free class on coding and programing whilest studying architecture. Gotta say, side hustles are really good to look into different jobs and just to learn more. :)
Being a gig musician or DJ is probably one of the better side hustles. It's a job that you definitely can make money while not easy at the start, it's possible to have a steady income. While it's not a flexible job, it is almost always outside of regular office hours. Almost nobody will host a wedding at 2pm on a Tuesday, or hire a DJ at 10am Friday. Almost all musician jobs are during periods where people would come down for a drink. And you can totally perform after your regular job. 3. Most people start off with a passion for music, nobody picks up the guitar because they want to torture themselves. So if you are good enough to gig, you definetly have some drive for it 4. A very good reason why it isn't your main job, you literally can't, it's not like you can go down to a bar, play music from 9 to 5 and get paid. You are only needed when there is demand, there is only so many hours you can play. Most musicians put the extra time towards producing music or trying to be more famous but if you have a regular gig at a bar every Saturday night, and no bigger ambition, it's a great way to earn enough money do some investment
"I think most people who perpetuate these ideas are people who genuinely need to believe it's true." Thank you for saying this. I think its a very interesting sociological case study to examine the rise of hustle culture among younger Americans who generally feel left out of the economy at large. Between job instability and crippling student loan debt, I agree that many of the people who push for this do so out of a necessity. They've been told their whole lives that if they just had a dream and worked hard at it, then they would somehow succeed. Thats generally the American hyper-individualist ethos, and one that no longer feels tenable in the modern economic landscape. Hustle culture just feels like more of a coping mechanism if anything.
among younger Americans... I find myself having to say this again, America is very small compared to the rest of the world. Stop thinking of your country as the only one, or as the standard, you are getting very skewed results because you are only accounting for such a small portion of the planet's population, a portion which is not representative for the world.
@@catalinastingaciu8584 yeah but USA owns the largest military and one of the largest economies. Is overall an empire also this person is living in the US
The people that perpetuate these ideas are the ones who want to get rich teaching you to get rich, not people that are already rich. People that already make good money aren't out there teaching other people to get rich - they spend all their time getting rich themselves, or enjoying their lives.
The advice on this channel is gold! I’ve drawn the same conclusions as you in a lot of your videos. Thank you for sharing the truth and not hustle culture guru bullshit. This is one of the few honest channels on money that exists.
I personally have been working side hustles for years, and the main motivation is the money the second motivation is completing a task when I want to do it. I'm not tied to a specific schedule or a manager saying things need to be done by a specific time. I perform the task and get compensated when I say I want too
As a small business owner, I like your analysis. It's true: running a small business is quite hard. You need to put your resources to where you can be your best, and outsource the rest. I can spend 50 hours designing my website, which is 50 hours I don't have for other stuff now, OR I can spend two hours with a web designer, and then spend the other 48 hours (i.e., the rest of my week) doing my actual craft, or something I am better at. I learned a lot of stuff the hard way - but this is one of them: learn when outsourcing makes sense. I don't mean overseas per se, but I mean when do you delegate stuff to someone else to help you be more productive/profitable.
Exactly. There are exact trade-offs. But whatever your craft is, remember that you are in the marketing business first. Your primary job is to get customers, however that may look like.
Thanks for differentiating between starting a business and a side hustle. Even though many side hustles are micro-businesses, a side hustle is not the same as starting a company or transitioning from one career to another. And specialization is key too. Do what you are excellent at, and once your business gets big enough, outsource what you are not good at to people who are good at it. Very good points in your video.
Work to live not live to work, i've never made a single penny from anything other than my full time career. Used to make me feel awful, but then I realised my job gives me the life that I want and i'm free to do the things I love without turning it all into a business.
Just checked out that Gary Vaynerchuk video. I can't believe you're calling him a schmuck. He got me pumped to never stop working and said it will make me happy.
I think there are some pretty obvious answers to some of the questions you stated. If the side hustle makes more money why not do it full time? A stable job that earns less pairs quite well with a side hustle that might suddenly stop being possible next year based on factors outside your control. If you don't enjoy mowing all the time why are you doing it to yourself at all? I think most people in this circumstance literally like doing outside physical work occasionally, just not all the time. It has nothing to do with liking the 'marketing aspect' of the job but not the mowing.
What happens when your side hustle begins to grow and generate real income for you? Do you make that your new job and then have to think up another idea? I've seen so many videos promoting a side gig and almost all of them are just telling people to be creative about starting a part-time job. It's just another job. I'm so glad you said that.
As somebody who is making my income through many streams, I think this video ignores one issue: The law of diminishing marginal returns, which also applies to enjoyment. You ask "Why not make lawn mowing your main job, if you enjoy it"? The fact is, due to a law of diminishing marginal returns, every next day of lawn mowing in the same week is likely to be less enjoyable / more boring / more tiring than the one before. One may like to spend one day per week working outside in "fresh air", but may prefer a mental job to a physical job at the other time, for example. In the same fashion, one type of mental work may break the routine of another type of mental work. So it is not like "If something is enjoyable for 1 day a week, it is also equally enjoyable for 5 days a week". For me - and many/most people - it is vice-versa. I'd think that, should they have an opportunity to earn *the same amount* by doing a different job every day of a week and doing the same job, most people would choose to do different jobs due to the law of diminishing marginal returns. In fact, many of the hobbies people have are nothing else than somebody else's jobs. E.g. if you enjoy playing PC games - there are e-sportsmen who earn money doing just that. If you enjoy writing about your travels or posting on Instagram - there are influencers who earn money by that. You enjoy playing basketball - other people earn millions doing that in NBA. What is the typical difference between someone who actually *pays* for a hobby and somebody who *gets paid* for the same (besides talent/capability)? It is professionalization. You won't become a professional basketball player or e-sportsman by just playing in the evenings. You'll have to do it so much that the law of diminishing marginal returns will make it much, much less enjoyable to you. But what if you are able to find a niche where you are actually able to make money without committing all or most of your time to it? That way, you may earn from something that is not a total routine for you. I think, that is just great - you may use the law of diminishing marginal returns to your advantage.
this is huge. I had a side hustle second job which I wouldn't want as a full time job but as a secondary job, it was different enough from my main job-I got to drive around and talk to people and be outdoors. It actually felt like a break and not work when I was doing it.
You're only counting in the diminishing enjoyment here. Side hustles are presented in the media in such a way that it will make you rich. That isn't the case. Working 3 different jobs a week might get you enjoyment, but it is only by specialising that you can actually become rich. Trying different jobs for experimentation is okay, but specialising is key. You cannot be a casual programmer and think of earning a hefy salary at google. You have to be good at it.
@@ss_avsmt Yes, you are correct. I was essentially able to choose between increasing proffessionalization (and likely total better income / career) or division of my time accross numerous activities. I chose the latter as I still earn enough for me and, ultimately, more income would have been used for hobbies anyways, just that there would be less time for them; now I am able to essentially earn from some of my hobbies or semi-hobbies without them being routine. Money *itself* is not the goal for most people in general, after all - it is *what money can buy* that is the goal. Often, money buys freedom (you can do what you want without limiting yourself), but earning money actually limits freedom (you have *less time* to do what you want) - so the correct apprroach is to find the correct balance between the two, and side hustles may help with that (but yes, I agree with you that they do not help you earn more than proffesionalization).
This is the most informed comment I have seen on this video. This video is highly questionable and is being agreed with by those who have no experience in the actual topic (video creator included). You don't have to be a super specialist in anything to have joy or success. In the case of the topic at hand, you just have to be competent (deliver a good service that people pay you for) and then scale that by buying other people's time. That's how you get rich. You are spot on about diminishing returns. As hard as it is to go from 0 to 90%, it's a lot harder to go from 90 to 99%. It's counter-productive to try to do anything at 99%, as you can get far more utility by doing everything at 70% or 80%. As an analogy, you are winning if you health, wealth, and social standing at 75%, as opposed to having 99% of any of those at the cost of the others.
Super insightful perspective on side gigs! I think lots of times these hustles are only attractive when they’re hypothetical. When the rubber meets the road, the allure wears off. Great video as always! 👍
I’m glad I’m still in my 20s when I finally let go of the dream of “being rich”. It’s like a whole weight lifted off. This natural world has so much more to offer. And we choose a human-made concept like money to rule our lives. It’s a disgrace. LACK of money can bring misery yes. But an abundance of it does not guarantee the opposite. Excess money buys pleasure not happiness. Two different concepts. Happiness is the selfless version of pleasure, and I think we should all strive for it.
That is true for people who are inward-focused. But if for someone whose happiness involves being outward-focused -- helping people, charitable donations, sponsoring activities / sports, giving people jobs, building things, etc. -- then attaining wealth is necessary for those goals.
Honestly, I just appreciate the hope I get from it. The odds are long, but the minute possibility of having a job that I don't hate is worth a lot to me.
Good info man! Points I liked… 1) 7 streams of income are a result of investing in multiple avenues 2) side hustle is just working another job unless you are doing it to replace your main income source.
My ex drove me crazy. We were both CNAs at a nursing home. Always short staffed. Instead of working more shifts to get overtime... She got a job at Starbucks as a parttime side job. I'm like, "not only are you making $5 less per hour... You are working just as hard with no chance of getting overtime pay!" Then she would quit Starbucks or get cored within 2 months cuz she or burnt out...
I have a great side hustle that I do while I’m at work…I’m in construction. I see sooo much copper wire being thrown out (because it’s unstripped or tarnished) that I’m leaving with about 10-15 pounds a day. If I do have to strip it, it takes no more than 10 minutes at home. Then a trip to the scrap yard to sell it once a month and BOOM a couple extra hundred each month. That’s $3000+ a year
I agree with almost all of the points in this video, but I feel like you're missing the case where the side hustle just isn't scalable. An example: My roommate and I flip furniture on Facebook marketplace. We're limited by the number of good deals posted in our area, as well as the storage space in our apartment. I really enjoy the "work" (buying stuff, and especially selling it for a profit) but I can't make it my full time job, because it simply isn't scalable. I don't want to pick up a side gig as a software developer, because I feel like I do enough of that at work and on personal side projects. The furniture flipping side hustle is very relaxing to me, and I great chance to hang out with a friend.
I think this is something that could be scaled but it would take a lot of creativity. For example you could make an app specifically for people to sell flipped furniture but then take a small % of each sale, like depop for vintage or flipped furniture. Another option could be hiring a team to help you locate more furniture, flip it, and sell it, so that you’re getting a lot done much faster. I’m by no means an expert, just from my understanding these could be possibilities for you. Hope you continue loving the work! That’s the most important part of any job :) good luck my friend!
Just enjoy the time with your friend, most people dont even have friends as an adult that they regularly do fun things with. Wealth of social life cant be bought with money. As a bonus, most people that live past 100 culturally have a thriving social life into their old years so you might even be adding years to your life literally. 👍
And even if something CAN be scaled, one might not WANT to scale it. I'm fortunate to have a number of different incomes, each involving a small amount of work. For example, one client has me cleaning printers for ten hours, once every two weeks. Would I want to do this every day? Absolutely not, but I'm actually happy doing it one day every two weeks, and then moving on to a totally different task the next day, and so on. The "well paid torture" line in the video assumes that work that one may dislike full-time is also distasteful for only a few hours, and, to be honest, that's not always the case.
More space and a vehicle able to pick up multiple pieces of furniture from a larger radius would make your business scalable. Make routes of thrift stores and find as many estate sales as you can.
I started a side hustle selling stuff on ebay my second year in college, the next year I figured out it's cheaper to contract manufacture the items to sell, and by the time I graduated I had my own machines and small manufacturing business that I felt comfortable going into full time right after college. I no longer sell on Ebay like how I started, but it was a great stepping stone to figuring out how to actually run a business, especially from the limitations of a dorm room and college budget.
"Multiple streams of income" is a pitch from grifters piggybacking on the destruction of labor rights and the casualization of work through the gig economy. Full stop. So glad to see someone actually cut through the bullshit and point out that in a market which explicitly incentivizes and rewards specialization of labor, the side hustle is a spotlight pointing at a job market not meeting its end of the promise.
I have a side hustle...it started out as something I enjoyed doing while I can make some extra cash..now its more like a second job because due to some life circumstances I actually need that second small income...so its more its more like a second job that I need...its no longer fun
My channel was a side hustle, it now employs 17 people, including myself. It's interesting that "how money works" is a side hustle that probably made its creator $4k+ for a sponsored ad right after the creator mention's ruining a good thing 🙂
He acknowledges this in the video and explains how this just so happened to work out for him. Your story is not the case for the vast majority of people who start RUclips channels.
@@JamesS180 true but a lot of creators give up too soon and have zero insight on why their content isn't gaining any traction. If they stuck it out and really did some reflecting on things, the success to failure ratio would likely be much different.
@@RockyVegaTV most idiots doing a side hustle do it for the money. I have found most successful people who turned their side hustles into their main thing were not doing it for the money only. But the money came second.
@@RockyVegaTV not everyone is capable of that insight into why their content sucks either I would fail as a content creator. Most content creators would probably fail at electrical work or maintaining railways.
I feel you glossed over the "monetizing your hobbies" part. I'm not sure if it's to be called a side hustle then, if it's doing the hobby anyway and then putting it out in case someone wants to pay you for it (think especially creative hobbies in art, photography you used quite a lot of footage of, game dev etc.). The idea is, I don't attempt making gamedev my main source of income. But once I have something worthwhile, I totally WILL put it out and monetize it. Not as a hustle thing to do, but literally as a hobby product I would make anyway, but letting it bring some money. Because, once it is done anyway, why the hell not.
THANK YOU! This is a great piece of content that reinforces the research and conclusions in books like The Millionaire Next Door, The Millionaire Mind and other books on retirement investing. Finally. Someone getting out the real stuff, not the flashy headlines.
So i work full time in a shipyard as a welder foreman. I have a side hustle of welding on the side. Ive invested about 10k into my equipment i use outside my main job. I dont weld much at all as a foreman in the yard. So being as i really enjoy welding it allows me to monetize a passion of mine outside of the yard and teach it and troubleshoot it inside the yard!
Better to focus on getting a main job that pays well so you don’t have to get a side hustle. I feel if people have time and energy to work a side hustle they have the means to upskill,certify, or apply for jobs that pay more than their current position. Work should be a means to an end not a constant chase to “stack bread”. What’s the point of grinding if you can’t find balance to enjoy life but also live within your means. Imagine hustling work because you have a maxed out credit card. I agree with HMW that some people need it out of necessity for their family.
Another side hustle that is often overlooked, and is always available, is serving/bartending. I work as an attorney, but have 3 serving shifts each week at a local casual restaurant that range from 3-5 hours. I make anywhere from $1200-$2200 a month that I then can use to pay rent, invest, or pay off student loans. Plus, I can get off easily and schedule shifts so that I still have a good work-life balance. It's also great for personal skills and I've made some great connections that have helped in my main career. It's not glamorous but there's no overhead so it's way better than Uber or Doordash. I figure I'll keep doing it until my early 30s when I'll have enough in investments for legitimate passive income. Using the serving income for rent and other essentials also lets me use my regular income however I want.
Very well said. I do think that you overlooked one thing though. Most of us don't have the stamina to do one thing all the time. There is only so much energy that you can put into your main thing. I find it very refreshing to have side hustles that can earn money, but are different than my main job
You can have side hustles. I’m a programmer and starting 2014 I started making websites for ads. I enjoy working on them once a month or so and they bring me a pretty good chunk of income. I could not work anymore but working is fun for me. 🤷♂️
I sort of stumbled in a side hustle. I got into 3D printing with filament, then resin, then realized that both hobbies got expensive in a hurry. So I work with a few artists selling resin prints on Etsy. In answer to the questions: 1. Can it make money: every month I've had my store open I turn a profit, and my only goal is paying back patreon fees and resin cost. So yes. 2. Flexible schedule: The prints run while I'm at work and the cleanup and shipping is only a few hours a week. 3. Capable: took a bit of learning and I'm not amazing, but I'm good enough to sell stuff. 4. Why not go full time? Don't move nearly enough models for that and the capacity to create at that scale takes an entire print farm. Plus I like health insurance. And my job is relatively guaranteed while the store is mostly just paying for itself. I am incredibly lucky in this regard, thank you for an excellent video.
Gosh, I wish this was the advertisement video that pops up before every youtube influencer saying that you can become rich with a side hustle with minimal ammount of work. This channel was is GOLD and I'm so glad the algorithm recommended it!
Going door to door for my lawn mowing as a teen was the best experience of my life. It taught me a lot, introduced me to people who helped me get into the college I wanted, and I made bank. Great memories.
Everyone's dealt a different set of cards in life, and we're all just trying to play our best move. Whether you were born fortunate or born in poverty, we all just want to succeed and reach our goals, whatever those may be. If you weren't fortunate enough to grow up in a rich family, you need to recognize that and understand the odds are against you... but still, play your best move. Give it your best try. There's a reason most people don't escape it, cause it wasn't designed for everyone to get rich, but find your own path and educate yourself on this game and what the rules are, give yourself the best chance at success.
Those born rich don’t have a need to succeed they can fail many times and still be okay. Unless their parents are like no you’re on your own. They don’t need anything because they already have it.
@@zmojofoot76 I'll leave this here. The rich put their money to work. The poor put their asses to work. I'm a lazy ass so I'm not about to build and run shit. I invest regularly. Your dividends are pennies to start but with patience, you'll see $1 a month then $10 then $100 and so on. Also a little crypto gambling on the side but if I lose 10% of my net worth, i won't cry but when you 10x, hoo boy.
So basically KISS method still applies to getting rich. Do 1 in demand thing extremely well and max that out, and then dump the extra money into various other investments. That sure makes things seem way more achievable😄
Why laugh? What do you do for work? If your job pays nothing, invest into yourself first. Go earn a degree in something that pays well. You can do anything you want.
God I love your Channel and brutal honesty. I hate the concept of side hustles and *hustle culture*. I agree with everything you put forward. Why work more just because someone told you too lol.
Starting a lawnmower business is probably more valuable in changing your mindset from employee to business owner than from cashflow. Sets you up for looking for better opportunities
As much as I like money, a stressful work environment, working someone else's clock to do a job I find no fulfillment in isn't worth it. I'm so happy that my investments in the financial markets keep securing me unvarying profits
Indeed the financial markets can be very profits worthy regardless of its complex nature. I believe with side hustles and investments there's no way one would be a W-2 employee until old age. Sounds depressing
Most times it still amazes me greatly how I went from an average lifestyle to earning over $169k in dividends. I for one believe that investing in stocks and quality dividend paying companies is a relatively easy strategy to create generational wealth
@@ericmckenzie9708 What exactly are your investments choices , I could use some help over here too. My stocks picks have been depressingly bad to be frank , I’m currently in need of a good investment plan, I have a about $70,000+ in a savings account yielding next to nothing. What do you propose that can help me , I’m keen on advancing my portfolio a little further
Actually there’s no particular sector I focus on , I have my funds and investments well diversified using signals from my IA , Noud Mikan. He’s a Belgian pro investor, well regulated and licensed by the FCA to trade securities…..he’s quite known on CNBC and to be honest it’s been a huge relief, good earnings and little to no engagement at all on my part. So far his stocks picks are top notch , my aggressive portfolio returned almost $220k from Q4 and SCHD last year…I tell you his quite the genius in investing and portfolio diversification. Do a little research on him
I do believe you earning as result of professional system buddy , for facts it makes whatever you do easier and beneficial….it as well relates in other aspects of life 👍🏻 Contradictorily what if I want to work with your broker , is it possible to get to him ? , I really don’t mind trying and seeing for myself
“…deal with customer complaints on my eBay store.” This is the most accurate thing I’ve ever heard. USPS gets slower every year and customers have to my it my problem, open a claim, and get my funds put on hold until it gets delivered.
Mowing lawn, gardening, delivering on a bike or any physical work is also a nice workout. You should work out at least a few hours every week anyways, and if you get money for it instead of buying a gym membership or something, that's a huge plus. As long as your main job is a desk job of course.
I’ve been saying this for time. Focus on one thing that you scale up (e.g a business or you being very good at your job and get promoted), then when you have exponential amount of money you can benefit of those “seven sources of income” , such as dividends, interest, royalties, profits etc
I started out mowing lawns 2 days a week. I found some old thrown out equipment, and fixed it in my Dad’s shop and then drew up a few yard signs. Within 6 months I was making up to $400 a day. Of course, that came with a lot of stress and constant work to keep my customers happy. It was also hot, sweaty work, but it taught me a lot of good skills that I am thankful for today.
Your channel is one of my favorites, I always look for your videos to come up. You are well spoken and attack things from the perspective of a regular person with no BS
I think this list is missing the 5th point: Could it help with your main job? Some side hustle can help sharpen your skills for your main job while making some extra $$$. I created a channel to become a better storyteller, a super important skill in today's job market. Love your content! More people need to know how the world works.
Here's the thing, everything you're saying is absolutely correct which is why I liked the video. The thing to keep in mind is that rich people aren't rich because they worked super hard. A lot of people who worked hard never became rich. What matters is the kind of job you have. Generally speaking, jobs which require more skill will pay more. The reason why cashiers and janitors get paid so little isn't necessarily because the work is easy but rather because it takes minimal training to get good at those jobs. Most of the jobs worth having require a college degree. As they say, don't work harder, work smarter. But really, it's more than that. The reason why you hear about multiple sources of income is because of what makes the rich people rich. You see, the vast majority of billionaires don't become billionaires through labor alone. Rather, they make money through profit from investments. Bill Gates isn't a billionaire because of his hard work (though he probably worked hard to get to where he is today), he's a billionaire because he owned a large share of a highly successful company. Same with Elon Musk who made his fortune off of the success of PayPal. Although he probably worked very hard with Tesla and SpaceX, most of his fortune came from the Tesla short squeeze in 2020.
For me, doing side hustles was something to break my psychological dependence on my full-time employer. Work for a government agency and had topped out the pay scale, so any other career move would’ve involved more risk. Wanted to know that I could “hustle” through unemployment.
The moment I got a sizeable pay rise, I quit my side hustle. I had a RUclips channel and I was close to monetisation. But with all the editing, research and filming, it was becoming a full time gig, outside my full time job. And I didn't want RUclips to be my job.
Great video! I rarely see side hustles that make as much money as overtime at your existing job. It would seem that, per hour, a side hustle would create the fatigue of overtime, without the overtime pay. It would probably be better to have an emergency fund for a few months of living expenses in cash, and to keep an up to date resume, than it would to burn out working a side hustle.
Turned my side hustle into a full time business. took me just over 2 years to do so and was the absolute best thing I've every done. I never needed a side hustle. I needed & wanted to have complete freedom of time. I could care less about the money. Having complete freedom of my time is worth more than any amount of money anyone could give me. You can make an unlimited amount of money but you can't live and unlimited amount of time. Time is the most valuable asset. In my opinion, most people that "need" a side hustle because they need more money either spend a lot of money on things they don't need, have a lot of debt that they don't want to tackle and get rid of or just do it for a short amount of time to buy something that gives them short term gratification. I don't think most people understand how powerful it is when you don't have any debts.
Debts do weigh you down, but it is also impossible to create vast amounts of wealth without debt. The trick is to get comfortable with debt, but also know how to use and manage it
@@ZainAhmed-ns2di Plenty of people become wealthy or well off without debt. I'm not totally against it but the stress of not having it is a big deal for me. Waking up everyday knowing that all of my money that I make is mine and doesn't have to go toward any payments. If I want something, I save up for it. Yes it take a bit longer but when I purchase it, it's mine. I think the problem for a lot of people is lifestyle creep and wanting things immediately instead of waiting so they end up being able to "afford the payment" but when you do that enough times you end up with no money at the end of the day and if something bad happens in your life and you need money for it, your screwed unless you want to stop making payments on everything and ending up messing up your financial future. I agree though that their are plenty of people out their that know what they are doing with debt, manage it well & become wealthy at a much quicker rate. Down the road once my business starts making more and more money and I have more margin to take risk then I might educate myself and try it out but for now I enjoy not having any other stressors in my life other than keeping and growing my business and enjoying the free time that I've freed up for myself.
"I'm a hustler doing side hustles to increase my portfolio on my way to financial independence." Translation: "I'm a broke, poor sap forced to work multiple jobs just to pay the rent but I want to pretend that I'm an entreprenuer/my own boss so I can feel better about myself."
Man love how you really pick apart different ideas floating around on the web. Think many people would feel better if they didnt try to chase these type of ideas 👍
This Video has been a God sent, I have been asking myself this question for a while. 1. My previous job didn't have overtime pay so side hustle was a way to make money and I did,but it does take a toll on your mental health and your body. 2. Unfortunately my side hustle requires constant support to my clients and the time required to make it doesn't really = the profit. 3. People who hating on this video probably don't have a side hustle that actually takes time and effort. Thank you for this Love from South Africa. NB. My side Hustle makes me feel more alive also feels like something I really enjoy doing even though it's in the same field as my employment.
I encourage side hustles in my community and friends since I love entrepreneurship for a bunch of reasons including; people thinking for themselves instead of wasting time on TV/movies/RUclips etc..., preventing the larger companies from getting larger when they consolidate more and more to themselves, and if there are children in the family, they are usually exposed to the value of entrepreneurship and work (to mitigate the general idea that they are entitled to everything for no effort).
I have a hustle teaching yoga and doing personal training. It technically pays a lot more than my day job as a grocery store clerk. However, turning it into a full time career would mean a lot more time spent cold calling and soliciting clients than I'm comfortable with. Or it would mean working at a gym that would take a significant cut of the money from training. I'm happy seeing how much upside I can create with my gig without spending a ton of money on it, and turning that money into investment income.
You are mostly correct about lawn mowing. You don't have to go door to door to get clients(although you can if you want). Go to Vista Print and get 10,000 door hangers made. Then pass them out in rich neighborhoods. Get help from kids if you need to. On average, you will get 1 client for every 200 door hangers passed out. Now you have 50 clients and if you are cutting in suburbs, you'll be charging $35 to $40 per lawn. That's $1,875 per week times 30 wee,s equals $56,250 in revenue. Your expenses are very low(10-15 percent). Your start up costs will run around 1,500 to 2,000 dollars. You'll average $50-60 an hour while you are working. I started out by putting my lawn mower in the trunk of my car until I could afford an old truck. The great thing about this business is you get to take 5 months off a year.
I quit driving in Lyft when the other shift at my full time gig was pushing OT like crazy, I made so much off OT alone I stopped doing Lyft and actually reduced my stress in the long term
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Ngl, two minutes in, I realized the main problem of "Side Hassles"
What video editing courses did you take?
Do you didn’t start RUclips as a side hustle?
@@donjulio4671 yes, he said that in the video
Soooo ~ Storyblocks is YOUR side hustle huh?!
Door to door sales was one of the most mentally tasking jobs I've ever done. Constant rejection takes quite the toll on your psyche if you're not fully prepared
Any form of customer service or dealing directly to a customer is mentally draining
*mentally taxing
Tried door to door for 2 weeks as an internship abroad after preparing for 6 months. Left the 2nd week completely emotionally destroyed, 85% of the people that went with me had a similar experience. It is brutal.
@@nikolagrudev3128 Its brutal indeed. I have been in hospitality business for 8 years and its taken a toll on my psyche.
But i will endure it more than others since I'm the best of the best.
Applying for jobs post grad is how i learned this lol. Rejection daily sucks
For me the most disingenuous part is how little time side hustles are supposed to take. If you want money out of them, you NEED to put in a full time effort from them. The only truly passive one I've found is dividend investing, and that requires a fair amount of capital to start.
even investing takes a lot of time if you really want to do your due diligence.
As with most things in the market time is more important than how much you put in initially. Don’t get put off by how much it takes to start seeing a check every month
Dividend investing can actually pay off for even lower class investors. I think the real problem is that if you're starting on the lower end and not actively increasing your income to at least upper middle class levels, then you're looking at about 30 years of very disciplined investing before you actually get to reap the rewards of your hard work. It's way safer than any "get rich quick" scheme, but 99% of people in their 20's and 30's will think you're insane for proposing that.
@@MrShitthead how much do you need to start with and how do you propose to do it?
For my side hustle I put in maybe 2 hrs a year and it generates 600-800k for me. It works. Initially I worked quite hard for a period of 9 years. It has paid me 10 million in taxable income over 12 years.
"As always, my main goal is ruining a good thing" thats why we love your content
Jim Cramer calls that UPOD - Under Promise Over Deliver. He says his goal is to ruin a good thing but, if you analyze his script and presentation, it's actually to save you from heartache and frustration that comes from not thinking clearly enough.
@@KosstAmojan didn’t really need it explained BUT that’s just me.. some may actually have missed the satire of that part of the video.
My main goal is to blow up, AND THEN ACT LIKE I DONT KNOW NOBODY AHAHAHAHA
Yes yes yes 🤣😂😅
@@thomas7365 the greatest scholar of our time
From a sociological perspective, the fact that side hustles is in the public consciousness at all says that the average person is uncertain and worried about income. That alone should be a bad sign. Most normal people don't work extra jobs out of the desire for more money, but the necessity for more money.
Something is going wrong in our economy.
Hint: it rhymes with Dapitalism
@@wintermint77 you're so brainwashed.....any *ism is not the problem..it's globalist figuring out ways to exploit the *isms cause every *ism looks good on paper and in theory. World Economic Forum, bankers, old money .....and power. As you get older, research and become wiser, it will make more sense kid.
When the contraditictions be sharpening just like that one German economist said would happen 170 years ago
@@alexanderb7721 can you elaborate on that please
@@op8995 how can the problem be fixed
Let's call a "side hustle" for what it really is. Making up for the lack of increased pay for the past 50 years in the US.
It's not just in us right?
@@zindhuzanjo8813 no, just in Earth
Yes, no increased pay, because it's an employer that has an owner or board of directors that chooses to pay themselves better than the people who actually do the work. Good place to start for income, but you will never be paid for your full value, the owner holds on to that
"Making up for the lack of increased pay for the past 50 years"
Please be happy, we virtue signal at you so that you can be happy - ah and here's a 0% shackle... I mean loan that will make you feel like you can afford overpriced ish, when you're in fact just making the virtue signallers richer by the day.
You make it seem there’s no upward mobility in the US
Hearing a youtuber say it takes hard work AND luck is so refreshing to hear. So many people brush off the fact that luck has a major impact on almost any gig or profession. Sure you need to work hard but there are also thousands of others working just as hard if not harder and just were not lucky enough to find a break yet
Why do you need luck? You can beat luck and take calculated risks if you are financially literate/smart with money.
@@lunarsoles you don’t need luck if you’re born into wealth. that’s about the only situation
There’s luck, but there’s also opportunity. When an opportunity comes you better pull the trigger or it’ll pass you by. I think that being alert and always in search of an opportunity is important
@@fvr12345 Luck = Karmic energy
It always works out for those who deserve it and are in God's favor
When someone has already said it better than I could there isn't much point in my trying--
"This is ten percent luck
Twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure
Fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name"
_Remember the Name_
Matthew Ryan Maginn / Mike Shinoda / Takbir Khalid Bashir
...and even then sometimes it just never happens.
Nah bruh you just gotta grind 25 hours a day and have no social life, no family life, no romantic life, and basically no well being whatsoever. Trust me Gary vee said it will be worth when your rich and still hate your life.
Gary vee never lies! I mean why would he lie right?
Yeah outside of being able to afford to travel to New places, money doesn't bring any happiness in my life
Lol yep 😂
Lol yep
@@ddennis2430 Financial security doesn't bring you happiness?
I had a side hustle one summer.
Scrapping.
I was driving around, picking up metal off of the sides of roads and turning it in for scrap weight. Even got to the point I was separating, cleaning and melting it down for more value
Your lawn mowing example is... Odd. I had a lawn mowing business as a teen. I made absolute bank. And it wasn't through "door to door" sales. I just made large (8.5x11) bright green flyers and stuck them on the door of every house in a four block radius. Did that every year. The cost of the flyers was tiny - half of what I made with a single lawn. One guy told me that he had 4 lawn mowing flyers, but picked me because mine was "funny."
I started mowing lawns when I was too young to get a "real" job, but kept doing it for years because it was just so lucrative, and didn't take much time. Best side hustle I ever had.
Hi Taran
Sounds like you would’ve made a very very good marketer. This example fits what he’s saying in the video perfectly.
Think about it. You completely cleaned out those other people’s flyers. So it wasn’t that lawn mowing was a good hustle, it’s that your ability to get business from advertising was exceptional (or at least better than everyone else doing what you were doing).
Lawn mowing makes sense (or something like it) if you don't have proper access to the traditional labor market. I think this video makes the assumption that you already have a full time job and are supporting yourself purely off that income
yess my brother spent most summers as a teen with his friend mowing peoples lawns. They made a few flyers and always had consistent well paid work
it sounds great. especially if you got paid in cash
A lot of youtube influencing is in itself a side-hustle for some people. You see a lot of encouragement for this not just because there can be benefits, but there's also the desire to validate yourself in your own decisions, so you try to bring people on board in advocating your lifestyle to other people. There's a lot of positive feedback in that.
Really good point I hadn't thought of before. I wonder how much of the side hustle phenomenon is caused by people looking for validation. They determine that validation is too hard to come by in their regular line of work and look elsewhere for it.
an unsustainable cycle
Which leads to negative consequences...
Ah the 'multiple streams of income' story... bluntly the modern economy rewards specialisation. You will maximise hourly income by specialising. What you should do is invest in increasing your education and skills, particularly in rare and valuable areas, and invest responsibly. But no one wants to hear that, they think they can build a Shopify store that will make them a millionaire
I love this channel because it relieves the social pressure induced by all the "hustler youtubers" and ect.
This is not entirely true though, broad skills are just needed as much and will be rewarded as much, it just depends on finding the right position
Or maybe that's just a small scale solution since there aren't tens of millions of such jobs available.
While this is completely true, there is the dilemma of increased specialization not being for everybody. Many specialized jobs, such as a React software engineer, are highly skilled positions that only a select percentage of society could even do. The average door dash driver isn’t intellectually trained or skilled enough to do many of these specialized jobs. The ones who are lack the money to invest in themselves.
@@troywalkertheprogressivean8433 what there are literally hundreds of millions of jobs in America
So I make jewelry as my side hustle and I’m glad finally people are telling the truth about side hustles. Even though I have a 9 to 5 working from home, the work I do is a lot and I’m usually exhausted by the end of the day. I’m also starting to dislike my side hustle and I don’t put a lot of effort in creating my content anymore.
Im a 27 year entrepreneur...i 100% agree, my side businesses time proved to be a complete waste of time and missed opportunities in my main
How is it going?
@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 extremely well, I found a niche and gained extreme expertise, thats a powerful formula
@@marksoberay2318 Great!
What‘s your main business about if you don‘t mind me asking ?
@@quandaledingle7861 rehearsal studios for musicians
It's better to focus on building 1 or 2 income sources than having 20 streams of income that gives you a few dollars here and there.
True story bruh!
And the time adds up quick, there are so many hours in the day and we are only human. It takes some pretty nuts willpower to do 12 hours of actual hard work per day. I'm not even convinced it's possible
@@shimmy_fpv I was averaging 65 hours a week at my last job so we were pushed to the limit averaging 12-13 hours a day
This is true.
The average millionaire might have around 7 streams of income, but they're all subsidiaries of a main company. If they're honest they will tell you that you need to focus on a single thing for years.
@@jas_bataille yeah it's a struggle it kind of makes you think you have to do 7 different things 😅😅 and it's a huge mind fuck but it's more effective to focus on one or two things and learn investing and obviously money management is key as well.
I would add one more aspect. If the side hustle improves your skills and/or makes you a known person in your regular job field, you don’t have to earn any money from it directly to make the side hustle worth it.
I think this is an incredibly important aspect. It could even be that they just hone your skills in something you find interesting or might have use for in the future even if you don't like it.
Correcto!
You can increase your value which will eventually pay off (hopefully) while receiving $0
Then it is just sort of time investment into your regular career
Exactly. I own a business as a home inspector and do contract inspection work for firms that work directly with banks. My full time position is a construction right-of-way inspector for a big metropolitan city. Doing the side hustles for the bank inspections has exposed me to other people in the home inspection industry and also works off my current license, not to mention I get to see new building practices at work and view some spectacular homes.
This! Every side project or hustle I work on benefits me several times. Usually it’s a combination of making extra money, learning a particular tech, and giving me material for publication.
Spot on! The best strategy for a side hustle is for it to be the embryo of a potential new business doing what you like. This is one of the reasons I opened my channel. Thanks for the video.
Your concept seems unique. Good luck.
Cool channel!
My brother in law did that. He used to work for the local council and hated it. He very slowly worked up to having a tailoring business from his house.
RUclips is no different than Uber. RUclips sets ground rules for you, they hold the power to cancel you, and they set your pay rate with Google AdSense. Uber does the same thing for drivers on it's platform. It's just a platform to work on, not an employer. Until you understand that you don't understand the gig economy.
Hustle culture can make you rich if you do one important thing, abandon your morality and your conscience.
That's how you succeed in MLM's or selling stuff on eBay. You have to be willing to exploit your friends and families. You have to be willing to scalp GPU's, XBox's, PS5's. If you can push down your sense of shame and guilt, it's easy to make money. That's how most of those motivational speakers and hustle & grind influencers got their money. They have no problem telling people to spend their emergency savings to buy their courses or shill pump and dump cryptos to their fans. You can do that too, just give up your conscience and morals.
Jeez man dark
Sigma tip #6742: Abandon your morals
Chicks who escort on the side must be similar. Get the cash, screw everything else. Lol
@@Samurai31631
At least professional escorts are perfectly honest with their line of work. Scalpers and influences can go rot in hell
@@Samurai31631 They don't harm anyone except maybe themselves. You can be a perfectly moral escort lady.
I'm so glad to see this. Hustle culture is highly overblown. You hit many valid points and no one got rich by working 7 jobs. Multiple income streams come from investing earned money in appreciating assets. The only thing I disagreed with was hinting that starting a business is also a bad idea. While not all businesses will be successful, starting one and growing it is a path to wealth.
@@quinnschroetlin business success is essentially a matter of there being a demand for something, and the business being capable to deliver efficiently, competitively (or monopolistically) enough. Personal satisfaction with the subject can be a trap, lure people into areas with unfavorable demand/supply ratios, unless one's personal tastes in the activities turned into a business is highly eccentric, or one's capability to deliver is truly exceptional, or one has somehow acquired a celebrity status that generate demand. All of which is also to say that the chances are lower than in less appealing activities with enough demand.
It doesn't say 7 JAWBs...do a little study or just continue to convince yourself you're doing fine.
I think the key is to find side gigs that overlap in terms of skills and experience, with your day job, assuming that is what you want as a career. In my case, I’m in software development and I intend that to be my career. So I went out and started doing freelance work on the side to earn extra money. I’ve been doing it for 2 years now and it’s been excellent, both as an income boost and a way to expand and refine my skillset
Where did you find clients, I just graduated College and started my newgrad role but am looking for freelance work. Any advice?
I'm curious know how did you find clients. I have been trying it but don't get any clients. I'm in development as well.
I started making RUclips videos and discovered that I love video editing. So a year and a half ago I decided to do video editing as a side hustle. I made a nice video editing portfolio page with a video intro, then found clients via cold emailing and UpWork. In three months I had 4 clients and was making as much money as my 9-5 job. Four months after that, my job fired me (COVID-related reasons) but everything was dandy. I became a freelance video editor and moved closer to my family to slash my rent in half (DC -> SC). I work with people who love my work and I love what I do. So for me, trying a side hustle made me find a job that I enjoy doing. Should've tried it years ago!
ur very lucky. not everyone comes across something that they can do like drinking coffee and turn it into full-time job.
Good on you yousef. Keep it up!
@@herogebrial thank you 🤗
@@markk3453 I wouldn't call it luck. I spent years honing my craft of video editing and on average I would get 1 response for every 1000 cold emails. I'm consistent, timely and very good at what I do. This has lead to my clients referring me to other people!
This is a very inspiring story, especially with the added adversity of the Covid nonsense. Way to go!
I am a high income earner ( not trying to brag, over $500k a year ) and I totally agree, I made all my income from specializing in my day job ( high end software engineer ), which then allow me to buy multiple properties which I can rent out, and buy stocks. I have tried to start some side business ideas on the side and every one of them failed. My main job is the only real thing keep me afloat, everything else is just play money and secondary.
What did you specialize on within software engineering?
Bro u realize side jobs are generally occupations or business that generate money outside your standard career. Just glancing at your paragraph i see two successful side jobs. That would be the rental property and stocks.
Do you have any advice for a young SWE especially about the career route to take?
@@sharp615 learn algorithms :) (computer science)
@@chattingman8546 I would hardly call day trading and landlording "jobs." Unless you're down at the rentals actively servicing the properties and providing direct services for the renters you're just managing an asset. And trading is really just gambling lol.
I've always said my part time job is working overtime shifts. Everything I need is already there and the time and a half pay is much more than most side hustles
Facts!
I'm very happy for you that you have access to overtime. I never have
do most office jobs have overtime? i feel like i never see that happen
7:10 rich guy here. You’re right on. I got my “multiple streams of income” by becoming a rich guy in focusing on ONE. then after I started my business I got more income streams by utilizing my wealth.
What is your 1 focus if i may ask?
@@saadabdullah4245 class c multifamily in one specific growth city.
@@codycast nooo i meant your business
@@saadabdullah4245 not sure your question. I own and manage apartment buildings. That is my business.
I'm 50/50 on what you said. The end of the video when you said "to work on your side hustle and turn it into a business while you're still working". I agree 100% with you. I work 80 to 90 hrs a week and have been doing it for about a year (40 at my job and the rest at my shop). At my J.O.B. I make good money plus benefits, however I hate it. I got into the mindset to start a side hustle, than I realized why not hire people to do the physical work, while I build the brand. Most people look short term on I made an extra $500 on the weekend. But you gave up your time. If you can make $1000 extra during the week after paying labor/materials and still have your weekends, why not push for that? It takes an extreme amount off effort and patience to build a business while working a 9 to 5. And that's why most people do the "side hustles" for short term then get burnt-out on it and quit. Moral of the story work your ass off, build a long-term business not a short-term hustle.
That's an interesting point that he did fail to mention. But I want to ask to reiterate...So, you are looking at 40 hours past overtime to make an extra $1,000?
Why not quit your job, and spend 60 hours on the business?
If quitting is not an option, why not switch jobs that allow overtime? You'll earn more than $1000 for 40 additional hours at a new job with OT.
Also, while I applaud your effort, I will say that your strategy is not feasible for most people.
Those with kids are disqualified. If you have a partner, you are disqualified. Any social life you have on weekdays is gone. Yes, you have your weekends and are not physically tired from labor, but your mind has to be so fried that you cannot even enjoy a weekend like someone who only works 40 hours, making $45,000 a year.
This begs the question of whether this is a legitimate strategy or chasing money so hard that you give up the more essential things in life to receive money that does not show up until years later.
I'm not even kidding when I say that the market crash and high inflation have me really stressed out and worried about retirement. I've been in the red for a while now and although people say these crisis has it perks, I'm losing my mind but I get it, Investing is a long-term game, so I try to focus on the long term.
I cannot focus on the long run when I should be retiring in 4years, you see l've got good companies in my portfolio and a good amount invested, but my profit has been stalling, does it mean this recession/ unstable market doesn't provide any calculated risk opportunities to make profit?
There are a lot of strategies to make tongue wetting profit especially in a down market, but such sophisticated trades can only be carried out by proper market experts
I totally agree, I have been consistent with my profit regardless of the market conditions, I got into the market early 2019 and the constant downtrends and losses discouraged me so I sold off, got back in Dec 2020 this time with guidance from an investment adviser that was recommended by a popular economist on a popular forum, long story short, its been years now and I've gained over $850k following guidance from my investment adviser.
I've been down a ton, I only hold so that I can recover, I really need help, who is this investment-adviser that guides you
If that is the case, it would be an innovative suggestion to look out for Financial Advisors like Olivia Maria Lucas who can help shape up your portfolio.
Trying times are ahead, and good personal financial management will be vital to weather the storm.
I wanted to fokus on the stock market as a side hustle, that was about 4 years ago. I learnd more and more about it, learned to code, proper money management (not just in stocks but in general), and discovered a really deep passion for numbers and statistiks. So I ended up taking every free class on coding and programing whilest studying architecture.
Gotta say, side hustles are really good to look into different jobs and just to learn more. :)
There is a whole industry behind supplying side hustles with disposable and consumable materials. Essentially a subscription.
Being a gig musician or DJ is probably one of the better side hustles.
It's a job that you definitely can make money while not easy at the start, it's possible to have a steady income.
While it's not a flexible job, it is almost always outside of regular office hours. Almost nobody will host a wedding at 2pm on a Tuesday, or hire a DJ at 10am Friday. Almost all musician jobs are during periods where people would come down for a drink. And you can totally perform after your regular job.
3. Most people start off with a passion for music, nobody picks up the guitar because they want to torture themselves. So if you are good enough to gig, you definetly have some drive for it
4. A very good reason why it isn't your main job, you literally can't, it's not like you can go down to a bar, play music from 9 to 5 and get paid. You are only needed when there is demand, there is only so many hours you can play. Most musicians put the extra time towards producing music or trying to be more famous but if you have a regular gig at a bar every Saturday night, and no bigger ambition, it's a great way to earn enough money do some investment
Yeah, got a lot of bad money advice in my 20s, I think a lot of us did.
"I think most people who perpetuate these ideas are people who genuinely need to believe it's true."
Thank you for saying this. I think its a very interesting sociological case study to examine the rise of hustle culture among younger Americans who generally feel left out of the economy at large. Between job instability and crippling student loan debt, I agree that many of the people who push for this do so out of a necessity. They've been told their whole lives that if they just had a dream and worked hard at it, then they would somehow succeed. Thats generally the American hyper-individualist ethos, and one that no longer feels tenable in the modern economic landscape.
Hustle culture just feels like more of a coping mechanism if anything.
among younger Americans... I find myself having to say this again, America is very small compared to the rest of the world. Stop thinking of your country as the only one, or as the standard, you are getting very skewed results because you are only accounting for such a small portion of the planet's population, a portion which is not representative for the world.
@@catalinastingaciu8584 yeah but USA owns the largest military and one of the largest economies. Is overall an empire also this person is living in the US
@Catalina Stingaciu holy hell, you can't read.
well said brother.
The people that perpetuate these ideas are the ones who want to get rich teaching you to get rich, not people that are already rich. People that already make good money aren't out there teaching other people to get rich - they spend all their time getting rich themselves, or enjoying their lives.
The advice on this channel is gold! I’ve drawn the same conclusions as you in a lot of your videos. Thank you for sharing the truth and not hustle culture guru bullshit. This is one of the few honest channels on money that exists.
I personally have been working side hustles for years, and the main motivation is the money the second motivation is completing a task when I want to do it. I'm not tied to a specific schedule or a manager saying things need to be done by a specific time. I perform the task and get compensated when I say I want too
As a small business owner, I like your analysis. It's true: running a small business is quite hard. You need to put your resources to where you can be your best, and outsource the rest. I can spend 50 hours designing my website, which is 50 hours I don't have for other stuff now, OR I can spend two hours with a web designer, and then spend the other 48 hours (i.e., the rest of my week) doing my actual craft, or something I am better at.
I learned a lot of stuff the hard way - but this is one of them: learn when outsourcing makes sense. I don't mean overseas per se, but I mean when do you delegate stuff to someone else to help you be more productive/profitable.
Exactly. There are exact trade-offs. But whatever your craft is, remember that you are in the marketing business first. Your primary job is to get customers, however that may look like.
Thanks for differentiating between starting a business and a side hustle. Even though many side hustles are micro-businesses, a side hustle is not the same as starting a company or transitioning from one career to another. And specialization is key too. Do what you are excellent at, and once your business gets big enough, outsource what you are not good at to people who are good at it. Very good points in your video.
Work to live not live to work, i've never made a single penny from anything other than my full time career. Used to make me feel awful, but then I realised my job gives me the life that I want and i'm free to do the things I love without turning it all into a business.
Just checked out that Gary Vaynerchuk video. I can't believe you're calling him a schmuck. He got me pumped to never stop working and said it will make me happy.
I think there are some pretty obvious answers to some of the questions you stated.
If the side hustle makes more money why not do it full time?
A stable job that earns less pairs quite well with a side hustle that might suddenly stop being possible next year based on factors outside your control.
If you don't enjoy mowing all the time why are you doing it to yourself at all?
I think most people in this circumstance literally like doing outside physical work occasionally, just not all the time. It has nothing to do with liking the 'marketing aspect' of the job but not the mowing.
What happens when your side hustle begins to grow and generate real income for you? Do you make that your new job and then have to think up another idea? I've seen so many videos promoting a side gig and almost all of them are just telling people to be creative about starting a part-time job. It's just another job. I'm so glad you said that.
I’ve been saying this FOR YEARS!!! thank you for putting my thoughts “to paper”
Great video
As somebody who is making my income through many streams, I think this video ignores one issue:
The law of diminishing marginal returns, which also applies to enjoyment.
You ask "Why not make lawn mowing your main job, if you enjoy it"? The fact is, due to a law of diminishing marginal returns, every next day of lawn mowing in the same week is likely to be less enjoyable / more boring / more tiring than the one before.
One may like to spend one day per week working outside in "fresh air", but may prefer a mental job to a physical job at the other time, for example. In the same fashion, one type of mental work may break the routine of another type of mental work.
So it is not like "If something is enjoyable for 1 day a week, it is also equally enjoyable for 5 days a week". For me - and many/most people - it is vice-versa.
I'd think that, should they have an opportunity to earn *the same amount* by doing a different job every day of a week and doing the same job, most people would choose to do different jobs due to the law of diminishing marginal returns.
In fact, many of the hobbies people have are nothing else than somebody else's jobs. E.g. if you enjoy playing PC games - there are e-sportsmen who earn money doing just that. If you enjoy writing about your travels or posting on Instagram - there are influencers who earn money by that. You enjoy playing basketball - other people earn millions doing that in NBA.
What is the typical difference between someone who actually *pays* for a hobby and somebody who *gets paid* for the same (besides talent/capability)? It is professionalization. You won't become a professional basketball player or e-sportsman by just playing in the evenings. You'll have to do it so much that the law of diminishing marginal returns will make it much, much less enjoyable to you.
But what if you are able to find a niche where you are actually able to make money without committing all or most of your time to it? That way, you may earn from something that is not a total routine for you. I think, that is just great - you may use the law of diminishing marginal returns to your advantage.
this is huge. I had a side hustle second job which I wouldn't want as a full time job but as a secondary job, it was different enough from my main job-I got to drive around and talk to people and be outdoors. It actually felt like a break and not work when I was doing it.
You're only counting in the diminishing enjoyment here. Side hustles are presented in the media in such a way that it will make you rich. That isn't the case. Working 3 different jobs a week might get you enjoyment, but it is only by specialising that you can actually become rich. Trying different jobs for experimentation is okay, but specialising is key. You cannot be a casual programmer and think of earning a hefy salary at google. You have to be good at it.
@@ss_avsmt Yes, you are correct. I was essentially able to choose between increasing proffessionalization (and likely total better income / career) or division of my time accross numerous activities. I chose the latter as I still earn enough for me and, ultimately, more income would have been used for hobbies anyways, just that there would be less time for them; now I am able to essentially earn from some of my hobbies or semi-hobbies without them being routine. Money *itself* is not the goal for most people in general, after all - it is *what money can buy* that is the goal. Often, money buys freedom (you can do what you want without limiting yourself), but earning money actually limits freedom (you have *less time* to do what you want) - so the correct apprroach is to find the correct balance between the two, and side hustles may help with that (but yes, I agree with you that they do not help you earn more than proffesionalization).
This is the most informed comment I have seen on this video. This video is highly questionable and is being agreed with by those who have no experience in the actual topic (video creator included).
You don't have to be a super specialist in anything to have joy or success. In the case of the topic at hand, you just have to be competent (deliver a good service that people pay you for) and then scale that by buying other people's time. That's how you get rich.
You are spot on about diminishing returns. As hard as it is to go from 0 to 90%, it's a lot harder to go from 90 to 99%. It's counter-productive to try to do anything at 99%, as you can get far more utility by doing everything at 70% or 80%.
As an analogy, you are winning if you health, wealth, and social standing at 75%, as opposed to having 99% of any of those at the cost of the others.
@@ss_avsmt i dont know anyone who has ever presented side hustles as something to make you rich at best they help you save money that to make you rich
Super insightful perspective on side gigs! I think lots of times these hustles are only attractive when they’re hypothetical. When the rubber meets the road, the allure wears off. Great video as always! 👍
I’m glad I’m still in my 20s when I finally let go of the dream of “being rich”. It’s like a whole weight lifted off. This natural world has so much more to offer. And we choose a human-made concept like money to rule our lives. It’s a disgrace. LACK of money can bring misery yes. But an abundance of it does not guarantee the opposite. Excess money buys pleasure not happiness. Two different concepts. Happiness is the selfless version of pleasure, and I think we should all strive for it.
I love this
That is true for people who are inward-focused. But if for someone whose happiness involves being outward-focused -- helping people, charitable donations, sponsoring activities / sports, giving people jobs, building things, etc. -- then attaining wealth is necessary for those goals.
Honestly, I just appreciate the hope I get from it. The odds are long, but the minute possibility of having a job that I don't hate is worth a lot to me.
A job I don't hate, and a job free from the casual mistreatment that employers and coworkers seem to dole out.
Good info man! Points I liked…
1) 7 streams of income are a result of investing in multiple avenues
2) side hustle is just working another job unless you are doing it to replace your main income source.
My ex drove me crazy. We were both CNAs at a nursing home. Always short staffed. Instead of working more shifts to get overtime... She got a job at Starbucks as a parttime side job.
I'm like, "not only are you making $5 less per hour... You are working just as hard with no chance of getting overtime pay!"
Then she would quit Starbucks or get cored within 2 months cuz she or burnt out...
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I have a great side hustle that I do while I’m at work…I’m in construction. I see sooo much copper wire being thrown out (because it’s unstripped or tarnished) that I’m leaving with about 10-15 pounds a day. If I do have to strip it, it takes no more than 10 minutes at home. Then a trip to the scrap yard to sell it once a month and BOOM a couple extra hundred each month. That’s $3000+ a year
I agree with almost all of the points in this video, but I feel like you're missing the case where the side hustle just isn't scalable.
An example: My roommate and I flip furniture on Facebook marketplace. We're limited by the number of good deals posted in our area, as well as the storage space in our apartment.
I really enjoy the "work" (buying stuff, and especially selling it for a profit) but I can't make it my full time job, because it simply isn't scalable. I don't want to pick up a side gig as a software developer, because I feel like I do enough of that at work and on personal side projects.
The furniture flipping side hustle is very relaxing to me, and I great chance to hang out with a friend.
That is literally the point of the example at the end through?
I think this is something that could be scaled but it would take a lot of creativity. For example you could make an app specifically for people to sell flipped furniture but then take a small % of each sale, like depop for vintage or flipped furniture. Another option could be hiring a team to help you locate more furniture, flip it, and sell it, so that you’re getting a lot done much faster. I’m by no means an expert, just from my understanding these could be possibilities for you. Hope you continue loving the work! That’s the most important part of any job :) good luck my friend!
Just enjoy the time with your friend, most people dont even have friends as an adult that they regularly do fun things with. Wealth of social life cant be bought with money.
As a bonus, most people that live past 100 culturally have a thriving social life into their old years so you might even be adding years to your life literally. 👍
And even if something CAN be scaled, one might not WANT to scale it. I'm fortunate to have a number of different incomes, each involving a small amount of work. For example, one client has me cleaning printers for ten hours, once every two weeks. Would I want to do this every day? Absolutely not, but I'm actually happy doing it one day every two weeks, and then moving on to a totally different task the next day, and so on. The "well paid torture" line in the video assumes that work that one may dislike full-time is also distasteful for only a few hours, and, to be honest, that's not always the case.
More space and a vehicle able to pick up multiple pieces of furniture from a larger radius would make your business scalable. Make routes of thrift stores and find as many estate sales as you can.
I started a side hustle selling stuff on ebay my second year in college, the next year I figured out it's cheaper to contract manufacture the items to sell, and by the time I graduated I had my own machines and small manufacturing business that I felt comfortable going into full time right after college. I no longer sell on Ebay like how I started, but it was a great stepping stone to figuring out how to actually run a business, especially from the limitations of a dorm room and college budget.
Dude you always put my thoughts in order. I respect you for that!
"Multiple streams of income" is a pitch from grifters piggybacking on the destruction of labor rights and the casualization of work through the gig economy. Full stop. So glad to see someone actually cut through the bullshit and point out that in a market which explicitly incentivizes and rewards specialization of labor, the side hustle is a spotlight pointing at a job market not meeting its end of the promise.
I have a side hustle...it started out as something I enjoyed doing while I can make some extra cash..now its more like a second job because due to some life circumstances I actually need that second small income...so its more its more like a second job that I need...its no longer fun
My channel was a side hustle, it now employs 17 people, including myself. It's interesting that "how money works" is a side hustle that probably made its creator $4k+ for a sponsored ad right after the creator mention's ruining a good thing 🙂
He acknowledges this in the video and explains how this just so happened to work out for him.
Your story is not the case for the vast majority of people who start RUclips channels.
@@JamesS180 true but a lot of creators give up too soon and have zero insight on why their content isn't gaining any traction. If they stuck it out and really did some reflecting on things, the success to failure ratio would likely be much different.
@@RockyVegaTV most idiots doing a side hustle do it for the money. I have found most successful people who turned their side hustles into their main thing were not doing it for the money only. But the money came second.
@@tonic316 I believe it. Passion will take you far in life.
@@RockyVegaTV not everyone is capable of that insight into why their content sucks either
I would fail as a content creator. Most content creators would probably fail at electrical work or maintaining railways.
I feel you glossed over the "monetizing your hobbies" part. I'm not sure if it's to be called a side hustle then, if it's doing the hobby anyway and then putting it out in case someone wants to pay you for it (think especially creative hobbies in art, photography you used quite a lot of footage of, game dev etc.). The idea is, I don't attempt making gamedev my main source of income. But once I have something worthwhile, I totally WILL put it out and monetize it. Not as a hustle thing to do, but literally as a hobby product I would make anyway, but letting it bring some money. Because, once it is done anyway, why the hell not.
THANK YOU! This is a great piece of content that reinforces the research and conclusions in books like The Millionaire Next Door, The Millionaire Mind and other books on retirement investing. Finally. Someone getting out the real stuff, not the flashy headlines.
Selling drugs has always been the OG side hustle
You know drugs sell themselves people are just the funnel.
Zehahahahaha sounds good, Thailand will be best Place for selling Drug especially Mariyuana
Thought it was prostitution 😆🤦♀️😂
So i work full time in a shipyard as a welder foreman. I have a side hustle of welding on the side. Ive invested about 10k into my equipment i use outside my main job. I dont weld much at all as a foreman in the yard. So being as i really enjoy welding it allows me to monetize a passion of mine outside of the yard and teach it and troubleshoot it inside the yard!
Better to focus on getting a main job that pays well so you don’t have to get a side hustle. I feel if people have time and energy to work a side hustle they have the means to upskill,certify, or apply for jobs that pay more than their current position. Work should be a means to an end not a constant chase to “stack bread”. What’s the point of grinding if you can’t find balance to enjoy life but also live within your means. Imagine hustling work because you have a maxed out credit card. I agree with HMW that some people need it out of necessity for their family.
I love how you mentioned the question I seem to ask myself so much these days “who is telling the truth”.
Another side hustle that is often overlooked, and is always available, is serving/bartending. I work as an attorney, but have 3 serving shifts each week at a local casual restaurant that range from 3-5 hours. I make anywhere from $1200-$2200 a month that I then can use to pay rent, invest, or pay off student loans. Plus, I can get off easily and schedule shifts so that I still have a good work-life balance. It's also great for personal skills and I've made some great connections that have helped in my main career.
It's not glamorous but there's no overhead so it's way better than Uber or Doordash. I figure I'll keep doing it until my early 30s when I'll have enough in investments for legitimate passive income. Using the serving income for rent and other essentials also lets me use my regular income however I want.
I constantly have a side hustle for 7 years now, it is tough, but I live very well. And learn a lot from my side proje cts, side hustled.
Very well said. I do think that you overlooked one thing though. Most of us don't have the stamina to do one thing all the time. There is only so much energy that you can put into your main thing. I find it very refreshing to have side hustles that can earn money, but are different than my main job
You can have side hustles. I’m a programmer and starting 2014 I started making websites for ads. I enjoy working on them once a month or so and they bring me a pretty good chunk of income. I could not work anymore but working is fun for me. 🤷♂️
I sort of stumbled in a side hustle. I got into 3D printing with filament, then resin, then realized that both hobbies got expensive in a hurry. So I work with a few artists selling resin prints on Etsy. In answer to the questions:
1. Can it make money: every month I've had my store open I turn a profit, and my only goal is paying back patreon fees and resin cost. So yes.
2. Flexible schedule: The prints run while I'm at work and the cleanup and shipping is only a few hours a week.
3. Capable: took a bit of learning and I'm not amazing, but I'm good enough to sell stuff.
4. Why not go full time? Don't move nearly enough models for that and the capacity to create at that scale takes an entire print farm. Plus I like health insurance. And my job is relatively guaranteed while the store is mostly just paying for itself.
I am incredibly lucky in this regard, thank you for an excellent video.
Gosh, I wish this was the advertisement video that pops up before every youtube influencer saying that you can become rich with a side hustle with minimal ammount of work. This channel was is GOLD and I'm so glad the algorithm recommended it!
Going door to door for my lawn mowing as a teen was the best experience of my life. It taught me a lot, introduced me to people who helped me get into the college I wanted, and I made bank. Great memories.
Everyone's dealt a different set of cards in life, and we're all just trying to play our best move. Whether you were born fortunate or born in poverty, we all just want to succeed and reach our goals, whatever those may be. If you weren't fortunate enough to grow up in a rich family, you need to recognize that and understand the odds are against you... but still, play your best move. Give it your best try. There's a reason most people don't escape it, cause it wasn't designed for everyone to get rich, but find your own path and educate yourself on this game and what the rules are, give yourself the best chance at success.
Those born rich don’t have a need to succeed they can fail many times and still be okay. Unless their parents are like no you’re on your own. They don’t need anything because they already have it.
@@zmojofoot76 Wealth is certianly generational and so is success. It's what my eyes have been opened to, money begets money and success begets success
@@zmojofoot76 I'll leave this here. The rich put their money to work. The poor put their asses to work. I'm a lazy ass so I'm not about to build and run shit. I invest regularly. Your dividends are pennies to start but with patience, you'll see $1 a month then $10 then $100 and so on. Also a little crypto gambling on the side but if I lose 10% of my net worth, i won't cry but when you 10x, hoo boy.
So basically KISS method still applies to getting rich. Do 1 in demand thing extremely well and max that out, and then dump the extra money into various other investments. That sure makes things seem way more achievable😄
Why laugh? What do you do for work? If your job pays nothing, invest into yourself first. Go earn a degree in something that pays well. You can do anything you want.
Really enjoying your series. Very well balanced. Has someone who has "been there, done that" your facts and advice in all of your videos is dead on.
God I love your Channel and brutal honesty.
I hate the concept of side hustles and *hustle culture*. I agree with everything you put forward.
Why work more just because someone told you too lol.
Starting a lawnmower business is probably more valuable in changing your mindset from employee to business owner than from cashflow. Sets you up for looking for better opportunities
As much as I like money, a stressful work environment, working someone else's clock to do a job I find no fulfillment in isn't worth it. I'm so happy that my investments in the financial markets keep securing me unvarying profits
Indeed the financial markets can be very profits worthy regardless of its complex nature. I believe with side hustles and investments there's no way one would be a W-2 employee until old age. Sounds depressing
Most times it still amazes me greatly how I went from an average lifestyle to earning over $169k in dividends. I for one believe that investing in stocks and quality dividend paying companies is a relatively easy strategy to create generational wealth
@@ericmckenzie9708 What exactly are your investments choices , I could use some help over here too. My stocks picks have been depressingly bad to be frank , I’m currently in need of a good investment plan, I have a about $70,000+ in a savings account yielding next to nothing. What do you propose that can help me , I’m keen on advancing my portfolio a little further
Actually there’s no particular sector I focus on , I have my funds and investments well diversified using signals from my IA , Noud Mikan. He’s a Belgian pro investor, well regulated and licensed by the FCA to trade securities…..he’s quite known on CNBC and to be honest it’s been a huge relief, good earnings and little to no engagement at all on my part. So far his stocks picks are top notch , my aggressive portfolio returned almost $220k from Q4 and SCHD last year…I tell you his quite the genius in investing and portfolio diversification. Do a little research on him
I do believe you earning as result of professional system buddy , for facts it makes whatever you do easier and beneficial….it as well relates in other aspects of life 👍🏻
Contradictorily what if I want to work with your broker , is it possible to get to him ? , I really don’t mind trying and seeing for myself
“…deal with customer complaints on my eBay store.” This is the most accurate thing I’ve ever heard. USPS gets slower every year and customers have to my it my problem, open a claim, and get my funds put on hold until it gets delivered.
Mowing lawn, gardening, delivering on a bike or any physical work is also a nice workout. You should work out at least a few hours every week anyways, and if you get money for it instead of buying a gym membership or something, that's a huge plus. As long as your main job is a desk job of course.
This channel is one of the best things I've seen in years on this website. You're gonna get far, my friend
I’ve been saying this for time. Focus on one thing that you scale up (e.g a business or you being very good at your job and get promoted), then when you have exponential amount of money you can benefit of those “seven sources of income” , such as dividends, interest, royalties, profits etc
I started out mowing lawns 2 days a week. I found some old thrown out equipment, and fixed it in my Dad’s shop and then drew up a few yard signs. Within 6 months I was making up to $400 a day. Of course, that came with a lot of stress and constant work to keep my customers happy. It was also hot, sweaty work, but it taught me a lot of good skills that I am thankful for today.
Without this "multiple sources of income" nonsense literally 90% of RUclips finance gurus would have no content 😂
Your channel is one of my favorites, I always look for your videos to come up. You are well spoken and attack things from the perspective of a regular person with no BS
The sad part is that most people’s side hustle consists of making a corporation rich. Driving Uber, door dash, or being a pawn in some pyramid scheme.
I think this list is missing the 5th point: Could it help with your main job? Some side hustle can help sharpen your skills for your main job while making some extra $$$. I created a channel to become a better storyteller, a super important skill in today's job market. Love your content! More people need to know how the world works.
Here's the thing, everything you're saying is absolutely correct which is why I liked the video. The thing to keep in mind is that rich people aren't rich because they worked super hard. A lot of people who worked hard never became rich. What matters is the kind of job you have. Generally speaking, jobs which require more skill will pay more. The reason why cashiers and janitors get paid so little isn't necessarily because the work is easy but rather because it takes minimal training to get good at those jobs. Most of the jobs worth having require a college degree. As they say, don't work harder, work smarter.
But really, it's more than that. The reason why you hear about multiple sources of income is because of what makes the rich people rich. You see, the vast majority of billionaires don't become billionaires through labor alone. Rather, they make money through profit from investments. Bill Gates isn't a billionaire because of his hard work (though he probably worked hard to get to where he is today), he's a billionaire because he owned a large share of a highly successful company. Same with Elon Musk who made his fortune off of the success of PayPal. Although he probably worked very hard with Tesla and SpaceX, most of his fortune came from the Tesla short squeeze in 2020.
For me, doing side hustles was something to break my psychological dependence on my full-time employer. Work for a government agency and had topped out the pay scale, so any other career move would’ve involved more risk. Wanted to know that I could “hustle” through unemployment.
My dad had multiple sources of income before he went to jail.... robbery, kidnapping, prostitution, drug trafficking, extortion, gambling, fraud
The moment I got a sizeable pay rise, I quit my side hustle.
I had a RUclips channel and I was close to monetisation. But with all the editing, research and filming, it was becoming a full time gig, outside my full time job. And I didn't want RUclips to be my job.
Great video! I rarely see side hustles that make as much money as overtime at your existing job. It would seem that, per hour, a side hustle would create the fatigue of overtime, without the overtime pay.
It would probably be better to have an emergency fund for a few months of living expenses in cash, and to keep an up to date resume, than it would to burn out working a side hustle.
Totally agree, one should stay simple and focused.
Turned my side hustle into a full time business. took me just over 2 years to do so and was the absolute best thing I've every done. I never needed a side hustle. I needed & wanted to have complete freedom of time. I could care less about the money. Having complete freedom of my time is worth more than any amount of money anyone could give me. You can make an unlimited amount of money but you can't live and unlimited amount of time. Time is the most valuable asset. In my opinion, most people that "need" a side hustle because they need more money either spend a lot of money on things they don't need, have a lot of debt that they don't want to tackle and get rid of or just do it for a short amount of time to buy something that gives them short term gratification. I don't think most people understand how powerful it is when you don't have any debts.
Debts do weigh you down, but it is also impossible to create vast amounts of wealth without debt. The trick is to get comfortable with debt, but also know how to use and manage it
@@ZainAhmed-ns2di Plenty of people become wealthy or well off without debt. I'm not totally against it but the stress of not having it is a big deal for me. Waking up everyday knowing that all of my money that I make is mine and doesn't have to go toward any payments. If I want something, I save up for it. Yes it take a bit longer but when I purchase it, it's mine. I think the problem for a lot of people is lifestyle creep and wanting things immediately instead of waiting so they end up being able to "afford the payment" but when you do that enough times you end up with no money at the end of the day and if something bad happens in your life and you need money for it, your screwed unless you want to stop making payments on everything and ending up messing up your financial future.
I agree though that their are plenty of people out their that know what they are doing with debt, manage it well & become wealthy at a much quicker rate. Down the road once my business starts making more and more money and I have more margin to take risk then I might educate myself and try it out but for now I enjoy not having any other stressors in my life other than keeping and growing my business and enjoying the free time that I've freed up for myself.
@@lsgsrob2102 agreed. I totally agree. I wish I could get comfortable with debt
I appreciate the amount of critical thinking you put into your videos, and how clear you are in explaining things.
"I'm a hustler doing side hustles to increase my portfolio on my way to financial independence."
Translation: "I'm a broke, poor sap forced to work multiple jobs just to pay the rent but I want to pretend that I'm an entreprenuer/my own boss so I can feel better about myself."
That’s why I subscribed this channel. The information is just so good and down to the ground.
Man love how you really pick apart different ideas floating around on the web.
Think many people would feel better if they didnt try to chase these type of ideas 👍
Bro you're one of the best business/finance RUclips channel by far
This Video has been a God sent, I have been asking myself this question for a while.
1. My previous job didn't have overtime pay so side hustle was a way to make money and I did,but it does take a toll on your mental health and your body.
2. Unfortunately my side hustle requires constant support to my clients and the time required to make it doesn't really = the profit.
3. People who hating on this video probably don't have a side hustle that actually takes time and effort.
Thank you for this Love from South Africa.
NB. My side Hustle makes me feel more alive also feels like something I really enjoy doing even though it's in the same field as my employment.
I encourage side hustles in my community and friends since I love entrepreneurship for a bunch of reasons including; people thinking for themselves instead of wasting time on TV/movies/RUclips etc..., preventing the larger companies from getting larger when they consolidate more and more to themselves, and if there are children in the family, they are usually exposed to the value of entrepreneurship and work (to mitigate the general idea that they are entitled to everything for no effort).
I have a hustle teaching yoga and doing personal training. It technically pays a lot more than my day job as a grocery store clerk. However, turning it into a full time career would mean a lot more time spent cold calling and soliciting clients than I'm comfortable with. Or it would mean working at a gym that would take a significant cut of the money from training. I'm happy seeing how much upside I can create with my gig without spending a ton of money on it, and turning that money into investment income.
The channel is so sobering, and I love you for it
Big companies and rich people don't have side hustles, they have investments.
You are mostly correct about lawn mowing. You don't have to go door to door to get clients(although you can if you want). Go to Vista Print and get 10,000 door hangers made. Then pass them out in rich neighborhoods. Get help from kids if you need to. On average, you will get 1 client for every 200 door hangers passed out. Now you have 50 clients and if you are cutting in suburbs, you'll be charging $35 to $40 per lawn. That's $1,875 per week times 30 wee,s equals $56,250 in revenue. Your expenses are very low(10-15 percent). Your start up costs will run around 1,500 to 2,000 dollars. You'll average $50-60 an hour while you are working. I started out by putting my lawn mower in the trunk of my car until I could afford an old truck. The great thing about this business is you get to take 5 months off a year.
I quit driving in Lyft when the other shift at my full time gig was pushing OT like crazy, I made so much off OT alone I stopped doing Lyft and actually reduced my stress in the long term