Side hustles for money: Keep Your Salary, Build Your Business.

There is the person who left a job to sell their own hours, and you know several. The consultant, the designer, the plumber with his own name on the van. They own a business in the legal sense and a job in every sense that matters, because on the day they stop working the money stops arriving, which is the definition of a job however the paperwork describes it.

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

In the United States, a lender following the standard rulebook wants two years of tax returns from a self-employed borrower, personal and business, and works from net income rather than what you invoiced. The rule has a reference number. Somebody wrote it down.

From chapter 3: The salary is not a number

That is how the book looks at “side hustles for money”: 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 hustles for money”.

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 Keep Your Salary, Build Your Business: The Employed Person's Guide to Testing a Startup 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.

• 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
• 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

See all 19 titles. Go to the book page.