There are two types of hustles in the world: the Main Hustle and the Side Hustle. A Main Hustle is your Five Day a Week, 9-5 job. More times than not, it is legal (I’m keeping it real here, people) and for the most part, you get a regular check cut out to you, pay taxes on it, and it makes your life miserable. Then there’s the Side Hustle. There could be set hours for your side hustle. You can get a check, or you could be paid under the table. This really should be extra money. Money that you spend on frivolous things, while you put away money from your main hustle to savings, debt, expenses. Two types of hustles doesn’t mean that you can only have two jobs. The harsh reality is that some people have up to 3 Main Hustles to make ends meet. I’m talking about paying bills and putting food in your mouth. If you have three jobs so you can buy the fancy shmancy, then I say, at most, one of those is a main hustle and the other two are side hustles.
I’ve only had a side hustle one time in my life. The summer before sophomore year in High School, I couldn’t find an internship, so I started working at Starbucks. I actually had a great time working there and the pay wasn’t bad either. ($8.25/hr + tips) Maybe 3 weeks after I started working, I got an offer for a 10 week internship. That pay wasn’t bad either – $16/hr. I’m sure the normal human being would have have made one last frappuccino and quit, but I loved working at Starbucks. But, I, being not-normal and all, decided to do Sbux part-time and do the internship. So for 10 weeks, I worked 7 days a week! Very draining, to say the least, but I managed and I made a LOT of money that summer.
I would love to have a side hustle now. Why? I definitely don’t need the extra money. I would just like to have it. Is that Greed? Should I be finding something better to do with my time? Um, I’m going to forget about that line of thought for now and just say that, I have a lot of free time and would like that time to be used in a lucrative manner. I feel as though there is a market for people that want random stuff done and people like me that just want some money. If I were to have one, though, I wouldn’t want to be as serious as the Sbux situation. For one, I actually have like having my weekends free. Also, it would have to be something that I can do that wouldn’t dramatically alter my free time. Like I’m usually free after work around 5ish and I like to be in bed by 10. Yes, I am a grandmother. Wednesdays, I do community service. Aside from my advanced age, I’m also a criminal. Haha. I don’t think I’ve seriously looked for a side hustle, but if one presented itself, preferably in the form of a suggestion in my comment section, that would be amazing.
Do you guys have side hustles? Let me know.
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