In this week’s episode, one writer explains exactly how she brought in ten figures from side hustling in just one year. Want to start a side hustle and aren’t sure how? Check out this video:
Making it work is brought to you by wealth simple which gives everyone access to simple affordable investing on cruise control it’s saturday night and i’m reading a pretty damn boring book about email marketing sales funnels why because i dropped over a hundred dollars on a new necklace yesterday and i’m trying to chill out this weekend on spending but also because
It’s research for future jobs and futures side hustle work this got me thinking about side hustles and my love for them as a writer i’ve decided to talk about exactly how much i made from each of my side gigs in one year the amount of time they took the amount of emotional and mental energy they took and how it all ended up to be extremely doable while maintaining
My day job while i broke this down i was reminded that the money mostly came in thirty to a hundred dollars at a time i was and i am playing the long game the few hours i put in every few nights added up to a hundred dollars every so often which added up to a thousand and after twelve months you get what i’m saying basically much of it is pretty realistic and
Attainable in 2015 i made twenty one thousand plus dollars in freelance income on top of my full-time salary job a few things specifically made this possible so before i get into details i wanted to paint a realistic privilege acknowledging picture of what my life was like while this happened number one i walk to my day job in 15 minutes or less each way because of
This i didn’t spend the one to two hours most people i know spend commuting and could easily do a few hours of freelance work upping my daily income by $100 or so by the time my boyfriend got back from work in venice to west hollywood in la rush hour number two i had a job that paid decently that didn’t require obscene hours i had some weeks where we had insane 24
Hour live streams weekend work events maybe once a month and a decent chunk of work travel but overall it was very reasonable there are jobs that require insane hours that are worth it for some people financially or career-wise but those often don’t give you as much time to freelance number three i am an la native and my family still lives here which is relevant
To the last income source on my list this obviously isn’t something i can control but don’t when i move la hadn’t even considered the possible and financial benefits of this but it is pretty much deterred me from ever leaving along with really strengthening my relationship with my fam even when i’m not using them for a place to crash number four i had and have
A certain level of privilege and access this allowed me to spend my free time doing side hustles an apartment with internet that was a great workspace pretty damn good physical and mental health that helped me stay motivated and an education and growing skill set that was relatively in-demand and qualified me for a decent freelancer rate now let’s get into my
Individual side hustle earnings from smallest to largest one thousand five hundred dollars three branded content articles for lifestyle brands assigned to me through the branded content division of an online media company i had blogged for a prior these are the only big czech projects on my list these were in the same month and only happened that time during the
Entire year sadly branded content isn’t a journalist stream but thankfully for me i no longer consider myself a journalist i’m a writer but selling out writing funny blogs for liquor brands doesn’t offend or shame me and the pay is great $2,400 fifteen educational marketing blogs for a website builder software to put on their website i found this company on angel
Co and reached out this was all done in the last two months of the year these projects are incredibly boring but easy for me i did one to two of these a week and they took about 60 to 90 minutes each this was definitely the main hustle where i had to buckle down and remind myself of the cost benefit and how worth it these were from me two thousand eight hundred and
Seventy dollars thirteen back to back blogs and a three-day trip to a trade show in las vegas paid on a day rate for a boutique content marketing agency i got introduced to this through an online acquaintance the blogs were for business owners from a business perspective but touched on trending fashion and lifestyle topics so they were fun and easy to write the
People i worked with were also really great this is an example of a gig i could do one to two times a month while having a more intense or fulfilling full-time job $4,500 about a hundred and twenty hours of copywriting email marketing and general marketing strategy for a lifestyle startup this was over the course of three months and it was probably the project i
Was the most dedicated to i got this through a mentor esque figure i met in college and it was the first gig where i had to really come up with a concrete hourly rate which was a great learning experience i kind of humiliated myself when i first suggested one that was looking back obscenely high ten thousand dollars 26 reservations equaling 70 total nights renting
My one-bedroom apartment on airbnb this was literally life-changing for me this year granted half of this money was my boyfriend’s but we had it in a joint account so i’ll include it it also really got my mind thinking about the value of owning and renting out property which i really had never considered to be a part of my short-term plan a few downsides it’s
Inconvenient as hell we went to my mom’s for grandma’s house about 50 percent of the time the other times we were either already out of town decided to go out of town and break even or even once i had to get us our own air b&b in la because my mom said no this obviously was a told-you-so moment from my boyfriend the year after this was a lot slower by choice but
Spent working on projects i loved more with higher rate and a new full-time job increasing your income from side hustles is great advice for anyone looking to improve their current money situation when taking the financial reigns into your own hands make sure to consider future you as well as today you with wealth simple that could be much easier than you think
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How I Made An Extra $21,000 On The Side In 1 Year | Making it Work By The Financial Diet
