Legit side hustles: Your Paycheck Is Not the Obstacle.

Then the things that quietly stop existing on the day you go. Your paid holiday, because paid holiday is something employers give employees and you would no longer be one of those. Your sick pay. Anybody covering your clients while you are in hospital. Your safe month, because from then on the month you take off is the month nothing arrives, and you will feel that every August for the rest of your working life.

From chapter 4: What you are actually buying

That finding is not a criticism and I do not want it read as one, because plenty of good businesses get discovered by doing rather than by planning. You can find the thing while building the thing. Nobody serious disputes it, and neither do I.

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

That is how the book looks at “legit 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 “legit 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 Your Paycheck Is Not the Obstacle: How to Build a Business While Employed 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 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
• 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

See all 19 titles. Go to the book page.