What's up? Nick Loper here. Welcome to the Science Hustle Show because nobody cares more about

your financial future than you do. Today I'm joined by Rich Jones. He's the host of the award winning Paychecks and Balances podcast

helping you navigate your finances and career. Check it out at paychecks and balances.

com. Rich, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, excited for this conversation today.

You bet a little bit of a different format today. So Rich is a frequent speaker at both podcasting and personal finance events and perhaps more

impressively he's done it all on the side he's a true side hustler today we've got

ten unconventional money rolls and these are unconventional in my mind.

I don't know if for you as the listener how unconventional they'll be, but we're going to run through

those, have some back and forth, have some fun along the way, and I'll stick around to hear our take on all of these different money rules that you may or may not be planned by in your own life.

So number one that we have, I'm going to come right out of the gate with this one that you might find surprising and that is sometimes your job is your best side hustle and what I mean by that is if you are a highly paid worker, if you have the ability to

pick up extra shifts, if that is kind of the nature of the game for you, you're earning maybe hundreds of dollars an hour at your day job

it might make sense to just bill more hours at that day job rather than trying to start something completely from scratch on the side.

What's your take?

I love that and this may be controversial in some ways and counterintuitive for this show but I generally believe that

everybody doesn't need to be an entrepreneur. There are a lot of people who are

really enjoying their careers and I know there's a lot of

entrepreneur shaming that happens out there people calling it the rat race but I know a lot of

people and I'm experiencing this myself where I like what I'm doing by day. I'm well compensated for what I do by day and that day job is funding my side hustle and it ultimately works out that I can continue to do this job

because it's something that I enjoy and I know that if I perform at a higher level I

can earn more through bonuses and salary increases, while also knowing that I've got this

side business that I ultimately want to make a full-time thing, but the day job is the source of

income for that, or the investing income for the business is what I'll say.

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