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Side Hustle School

#2472 - Q&A: “What works best for a sprint-and-stop schedule?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A caller has a job that cycles between intense work and downtime, and he's looking for a side hustle to fit that rhythm. Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week. Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com Email: [email protected] Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions Connect on Twitter: @chrisguillebeau Connect on Instagram: @193countries Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the podcast. The podcast is known as Side Usal School. My name is Chris

0:14.9

Gillipo, your host. We've been going for 2,472 days in a row and I appreciate you tuning

0:20.2

in today. This episode features Elliott from Lameza, California. He's got a unique

0:25.4

work schedule that's all about sprinting and stopping. So everybody's got their own kind

0:31.1

of work schedule situation out there and a lot of schedules are not 9 to 5 or whatever

0:36.7

the hours may be. A lot of them have all sorts of variants and flexibility, sometimes imposed

0:43.7

flexibility. So it's not you being flexible, it's your employer being flexible. It's

0:48.6

whatever works best for them and you might have to accommodate that. And sometimes depending

0:53.3

on the career or your industry, that's just part of how things work. And so if you're

0:57.2

having to accommodate that or at least adjust to it a bit, like how can you grow a business

1:01.7

or at least create an additional source of income in the midst of this erratic work season

1:08.2

or maybe it's not even a season. Maybe it's just kind of the overall schedule of how it

1:12.0

is. So if you've ever had an on-call job or different work hours, maybe something

1:16.8

here is helpful for you as well. Let's look at some potential side hustles that could

1:20.3

match a sprint and stop or a stop and sprint, work rhythm, intense work and downtime. What

1:26.4

do you do in that situation? Detailed question coming up after this quick message from our

1:30.8

sponsor.

1:32.8

Hey there, it's Elliott from La Mesa, California. I have a job that requires intense

1:49.0

work sprints, followed by periods of downtime. Like being on call for weeks and then having

1:53.8

a week off. What would be the best type of side hustle that could fit this sort of sprint

1:58.0

and stop schedule? I can't do consulting or anything else that requires constant availability

2:02.7

or customer service.

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