Most lucrative side hustles: Test It Before You Quit It.

Whatever you are picturing on the other side of your notice period, it won't be the picture. It'll be a Tuesday, and you'll be in it, and you'll be the same person you were the Tuesday before.

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

There is a related finding worth having. A diary study followed employees day by day and found the side project cutting both ways at once, improving their performance at work through the sense of getting somewhere, and damaging it through what the researchers call attention residue, which is the part of you still in the other job an hour after you've left it. The thing that helped most was keeping firm edges between the two.

From chapter 10: What the double life costs

That is how the book looks at “most lucrative 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 “most lucrative 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 Test It Before You Quit It 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.

• 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
• 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

See all 19 titles. Go to the book page.