After working 70-hour weeks, she left her full-time job due to burnout, but still works two jobs while trying to get a side hustle off the ground and limiting her work hours to no more than 50 hours a week.
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The secret to side hustles is to find one that can become your road to self-employment. A “job” isn’t likely to ever make one financially independent. A job is way for someone else to profit off your labor. Which means you aren’t reaching your full potential. This can be fine if you are highly skilled, but if you aren’t it will never lead to independence, just a lifetime of dependence on the next job and a unsatisfactory retirement.
My favorite stories are those similar to a friend of mine who never went to college, started selling water skis out of the trunk of his car and built a multi-million dollar business and retired in his early 60’s.
I did it with a side hustle of buying cheap land starting with $5k I saved from a low-paying job at age 30. My jobs would never have brought financial independence.
Lolz
I worked 70-80 hour weeks for years to get to a point where I can comfortably support my family on my income so my wife can be “mom” full time
There was a point in time where my dad worked 16-20 hours a day 7 days a week between two jobs and ranch work that was needed
You do what you have to if you want to have anything and properly take care of your family
Stock photo and video production used to be worth doing for me up until a couple of years ago.
The main agency I submitted to for over a decade had a commission schedule that allowed growth and I sometimes made up to 200 on a generic video clip.
Mostly I made in the 25 to 50 dollar range.
The agency in question decided to reset to a year zero for all the contributors. Essentially pennies a sale.
I quit submitting to them and whatever is up is staying. Adobe and Pond5 pay better but sales are infrequent. A lot of saturation.