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Take another look at the broad definition of a side hustle: an activity outside of your full-time job in which you are materially invested. Maybe you’re materially invested in some type of volunteer work — dog walking a couple times each week at a nearby animal shelter, or being on the board of a local charity that assists homeless veterans. You aren’t getting any sort of pay for this volunteer activity, but it certainly takes up a fair amount of your time and needs to be balanced with your full-time job. So, could you think of your volunteer work as a side hustle?

Well, maybe. If you limit the definition of a side hustle to an activity — any activity — that fits the “work equals pay” equation, then no, volunteer work isn’t really a side hustle. However, if you leave aside the compensation and income aspect of side hustles, you may, indeed, find a great deal of similarity between certain types of volunteer work and certain kinds of side hustles.

But now we’re diving deep into the terminology weeds, or splitting hairs, or whatever other metaphor you’d like to apply here. A better way to think of volunteer work and side hustles is that you could combine “traditional” side-hustle activities with your volunteer work to benefit a particular cause. You could, for example, write blog posts or create YouTube videos about your favorite cause, which bring in a little bit of advertisement-sponsored revenue. Or you could create an online retail site in Shopify and sell donated clothes — sort of an online thrift store. You could then (maybe after covering your costs) donate some or even all of your proceeds to your favorite charity. So essentially, you’re engaged in some sort of side-hustle activity, but you’re forgoing part of the “reward structure” — the income — for a good cause.