“But I don’t want to take a SECOND full-time job to earn money on the side”

“But I don’t want to take a SECOND full-time job to earn money on the side”

15 comments — written on January 13th, 2010

You don’t have to work 80 hours/week to earn money on the side.

There are a lot of barriers we have to stepping out of our normal jobs and earning more, but I especially want to tackle this one. So many of my friends hear “earn money on the side” and immediately start thinking that (1) “money is evil” and that (2) in order to earn any significant amount, they’ll have to basically take on a second job that will consume all their free time.

Hardly.

I think about it a little differently, and I figured this might help re-frame this particular barrier.

For most successful people who earn money on the side, it’s not really about the money. It’s about far more important things:

• Flexibility: so you can eventually go to yoga every day at 4pm
• Impact: knowing that …