Highest paying side hustles: I Want to Start a Business but I Can't Quit My Job.

The first group is where Hamilton's thirty-five per cent lives, and almost everybody who says they want to start a business is picturing the second animal while quietly building the first. Which one have you been picturing? And which does your actual plan describe, the one with the spreadsheet and the domain name you already paid for?

From chapter 1: Only one kind of self-employment pays

Because there's no industry selling it to you. Enormous businesses exist to help you start something. Almost nothing exists to tell an employed person that a plumbing firm with eleven staff is for sale forty minutes away, and the people who do know are brokers paid on completion, which is a reason to read them carefully rather than a reason to ignore them.

From chapter 11: Buy the business instead of building it

That is how the book looks at “highest paying 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 “highest paying 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 I Want to Start a Business but I Can't Quit My 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.

• 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
• 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

See all 19 titles. Go to the book page.