Side hustle jobs: Don't Quit Your Job to Start a Business.

Then do it on paper. Same three jobs, none of the cost. Write the applications, research the companies properly, then sit still and ask what you'd feel if the offer arrived on Friday afternoon. The real version is far more powerful, because your body answers faster than your opinions do. The paper version costs nobody anything but you. Choose whichever you can live with, and don't pretend the first one is free.

From chapter 5: Stuck is not the same as ready

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

That is how the book looks at “side hustle jobs”: 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 “side hustle jobs”.

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 Don't Quit Your Job to Start a Business: Build It on the Side, Test It, Then Decide 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 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
• 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

See all 19 titles. Go to the book page.