Side Hustles

Ralf, I want to start something beside my 9-to-5, a side hustle, what do you think?

It’s ages…

Around 2000, I was in my early 20s and worked full time developing games

I had an online shopping software I wanted to push to being salable

Except the 8 hours at work I had nothing to do

Simple math told me it wouldn’t be a problem to dedicate 1-3 hours every day to further developing my online shop software

But reality was, those 8 hours sucked me dry, I was simple empty after that

All I wanted to do was doing something else rather than sitting some more hours in front of the PC, especially since I was in my early 20s and life had more to offer than sitting in front of a PC

I didn’t continue working on the online shopping software until I finally quit my job

That’s why all this side hustle bullshit on Twitter is nothing but that, bullshit

Been there, done that

You don’t work 8 hours focused on a day job, get home, and then some more on the evening

If you want to do that, get a job that’s not demanding, something like gardening, where your body is tired in the evening, but your mind is fresh

Or get a well paid and demanding job, stack savings and then quit that motherfucker once for all once you saved money for living for a year without income, then go all-in on your real thing

Or follow endlessly this Twitter bullshit advise on side hustles and either stay where you are or burn out

Entrepreneurship, starting something out of thin air, to make create something great and make this work it requires all you’ve got. It’s demanding, it sucks you dry on its own. It requires everything. There absolutely no room for a founder to spend even a single hour on something unrelated to their endeavor, let alone 8 hours.

Entrepreneurship and achieving great things is about sacrifices. You’ll have to sacrifice things to get those other things. You can’t have everything.

The sooner you’ll realize this and focus on priorities, the sooner you’ll find success in whatever endeavor you’ll follow.