Get side hustles: The Job You Can't Quit Is Your Cheapest Startup Lab.

Your J column is longer, and it's the same word every time. A person, a meeting, a commute. Then you haven't learned that you should start a business. You've learned that one identifiable thing is costing you a great deal, and you've now got to ask whether it's cheaper to remove that thing than to remove the whole job.

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

I went looking for one person. Somebody who left a job mainly to escape it, started a business, worked out that they did not actually want to run a business, and then said so publicly with their name attached. That is exactly what this chapter warns you about, so I expected hundreds of them.

From chapter 8: The job might be the problem, and a business might not be the answer

That is how the book looks at “get 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 “get 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 The Job You Can't Quit Is Your Cheapest Startup Lab: 14 One-Evening Tests Before You Risk Your Paycheck 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.

• 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
• Stay Employed, Start Smart: The Low-Cost Test Before You Quit

See all 19 titles. Go to the book page.