Easy side hustles: Don't Hand In Your Notice Yet.

In the United States, a lender following the standard rulebook wants two years of tax returns from a self-employed borrower, personal and business, and works from net income rather than what you invoiced. The rule has a reference number. Somebody wrote it down.

From chapter 3: The salary is not a number

Whatever you are picturing on the other side of your notice period, it won't be the picture. It'll be a Tuesday, and you'll be in it, and you'll be the same person you were the Tuesday before.

From chapter 6: You are guessing how it will feel, and the guess is wrong

That is how the book looks at “easy side hustles”: one idea at a time, with a step you can take right away. Of course, this is only one idea from the book. So, if this passage speaks to you, the full chapter goes further, and it ends with an exercise you can do the same evening.

In short, the book has 14 chapters, and each one ends with a practical exercise. Therefore, you can read it in order, or you can go straight to the part about “easy side hustles”.

1. Only one kind of self-employment pays
2. The forty-five-year-old founder
3. The salary is not a number
4. What you are actually buying
5. Stuck is not the same as ready
6. You are guessing how it will feel, and the guess is wrong
7. Why you have not decided already
8. The job might be the problem, and a business might not be the answer
9. Do not leap. overlap.
10. What the double life costs
11. Buy the business instead of building it
12. One stranger, one payment, while you still have the job
13. Staying is allowed, and it can be the win
14. A decision you can defend later

Finally, you can get Don't Hand In Your Notice Yet: The Employed Person's Startup Test in the stores below. Because every title of this book shares the same text, you can simply pick the one you like best. Also, the book is available in 19 languages.

In addition, each title below highlights a different idea from the same book. So, pick the one that speaks to you.

• The Two-Year Wall: Why Side-Builders Survive and Salary-Jumpers Don't
• The Side-Business Validation Plan: Keep the Wage, Test the Dream, Then Jump
• I Want to Be My Own Boss, but I Need My Salary: Test First, Quit Later
• Your Paycheck Is Not the Obstacle: How to Build a Business While Employed
• The 96-Hour Business Test: Validate Your Idea Before You Quit Your Job
• Before You Hand In Your Notice: How to Test a Business While You Still Have a Job
• The Job You Can't Quit Is Your Cheapest Startup Lab: 14 One-Evening Tests Before You Risk Your Paycheck
• Keep Your Salary, Build Your Business: The Employed Person's Guide to Testing a Startup Before You Quit
• Don't Quit Your Job to Start a Business: Build It on the Side, Test It, Then Decide
• I Can't Quit My Job: Test It Before You Quit It

See all 19 titles. Go to the book page.