Freelance side hustles: Before You Hand In Your Notice.

When you fail to act and it goes wrong, there is nothing to replay. No moment, no timestamp, no hand moving. Things simply carried on, the way they had the month before. The regret still arrives, but it arrives cold and slow and spread across years, and it never once condenses into a scene you could apologise for, which is exactly why it costs you nothing to keep paying it.

From chapter 7: Why you have not decided already

The first serious one was a big abarrotes shop. The owner was a stern man who kept his eyes on the ledger while I talked. I set the samples out on his counter, explained wholesale margins to a man who had been doing wholesale margins since before I was born, and offered him a price that undercut every middleman in the region.

From chapter 12: One stranger, one payment, while you still have the job

That is how the book looks at “freelance 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 “freelance 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 Before You Hand In Your Notice: How to Test a Business While You Still Have a Job 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 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
• Test It Before You Quit It
• I Want to Start a Business but I Can't Quit My Job
• Test It Before You Quit It: I Want to Start a Business but I Can't Quit My Job
• I Want to Start a Business but I Can't Quit My Job. Test It Before You Quit It
• You Are Not Deciding Today: Find Out What's Actually Attached to You Before You Quit
• The 35% Trap: What Happens When You Quit Before You Test

See all 19 titles. Go to the book page.