Good side hustles: You Are Not Deciding Today.

So let me be precise about what I am claiming, because the difference matters. I'm not claiming you'll be disappointed. I can't know that. I am claiming that if you are like most people you are probably overestimating the emotional payoff by some amount, and that there is a cheap way to check this before you find it out the expensive way.

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

Decision journals, meaning writing a decision and its reasoning down before you know the outcome, have no peer-reviewed trial behind them. None that I could find. They are recommended widely and tested nowhere.

From chapter 14: A decision you can defend later

That is how the book looks at “good 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 “good 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 You Are Not Deciding Today: Find Out What's Actually Attached to You Before You Quit 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 35% Trap: What Happens When You Quit Before You Test
• Stay Employed, Start Smart: The Low-Cost Test Before You Quit
• The Employed Entrepreneur: How to Test a Business Without Losing Your Job
• Don't Hand In Your Notice Yet: The Employed Person's Startup Test
• 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

See all 19 titles. Go to the book page.