This is Optimal Finance Daily Episode 1795.

Side hustles aren't a necessity, but they can change your life by Kevin of financialpanther.com.

And I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast Diana Mariam.

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Side hustles aren't a necessity, but they can change your life by Kevin of financialpanther.com.

In the divide between whether or not to side hustle,

I've always been firmly on the side of the side hustle.

The way I see it, if you can figure out a way to earn extra money doing something you enjoy,

then why shouldn't you do it? That's not to say the arguments about why side hustles are bad

are wrong. They have some valid points. Side hustles often don't pay much,

and they can be a waste of time. You could also say side hustles personify the worst of hustle culture,

glorifying people sacrificing their lives in pursuit of work and money. I've always had

a bit of a mixed view when it comes to hustle culture and how I feel about it.

On the one hand, I get it, too many of us sacrifice our lives for work and money.

We put work at the center of everything, even above our lives and our family and friends.

I made a deliberate choice a few years ago to go my own way instead of continuing in the rat race.

It led to me quitting my job, not because I was making so much money from creating online,

but because I wanted to gain back more control of my life and my time.

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