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Maybe you’ve been in your career field for 10 or even 20 years, but you’re at the point where going to work every day is starting to be harder and harder. True, you’re making decent money. But the days drag, and you can’t wait until the workday is over.

Or maybe you wound up with the job of your dreams, but those dreams turned out to be more of a fantasy. Sure, you knew about the crushing hours and the wearying travel, but you were actually looking forward to the fast-track lifestyle on the road toward that big-time paycheck. Now, after only a year or two, you’re asking yourself, “What in the world was I thinking?”

You’re not quite ready to hit the ejection seat without a new job. You could start interviewing for jobs with a better work–life balance. But one message that has come through loud and clear every time your boss tells you that you need to work all weekend and miss a family event: You really want to be your own boss.

A side hustle can be the perfect gateway between your current career path and something — anything — that is totally different. Not sure exactly where your passions lie? Try out one side hustle that fits your available time and passions. If it works, great: You can work on taking that particular side hustle to the next level and turning it into a full-time business (see Chapter 15). If that one doesn’t do it for you, no problem — try another one, all the while still trudging along at your full-time job.

Or, if something miraculously happens for the better in the realm of your full-time job — say, you wind up interviewing with and then accepting a new job in your current career with better hours and a much lower stress level — you can either keep your side hustle going or slowly unwind and stop doing your side gig (see Chapter 14).