#932 - WEEKLY RECAP: Going from Hobby to Hustle
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In our twenty-ninth recap of Season III, we'll highlight the lessons learned in this week. Also: an audio update from a previous case study!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to the program. |
| 0:10.8 | We have just finished week number 29 of season 3 side hustle school. |
| 0:15.8 | This week featured a home haircut invention that goes on to earn $2 million. |
| 0:20.2 | A handkerchief hustle that also reaches 7 figures a year and a jail house medic who starts |
| 0:25.6 | his own mobile clinic. |
| 0:27.6 | So let's jump right into today and talk a bit about going from hobby to hustle. |
| 0:31.6 | So yesterday I mentioned when you go from hobby to side hustle, you might be surprised |
| 0:35.7 | at how much time you need to spend on tasks that have nothing to do with the hobby itself. |
| 0:40.2 | The jewelry designer in that story said that designing her products takes about 5% of her |
| 0:44.3 | hustle time and the remaining 95% is all about production, promotion, pitching or working |
| 0:50.2 | on her business model. |
| 0:51.7 | I think I may have also mentioned that I sometimes feel like that as a writer. |
| 0:55.4 | I spend a lot less time actually writing than in doing all of the other things associated |
| 0:59.2 | with writing or with being an author and all the things that come with that. |
| 1:03.0 | So let's talk about this a bit more because there are a couple of parts to this. |
| 1:06.9 | One part is about understanding that when you start any kind of business based on a hobby |
| 1:11.9 | or passion at least, let's say, there are almost certainly a bunch of other things you're |
| 1:15.8 | going to need to do besides whatever it is you do for the hobby. |
| 1:19.6 | And you have to come to terms with that if you want this thing to be your side hustle. |
| 1:23.1 | It's also okay to keep your hobby just a hobby. |
| 1:26.4 | If you find it stressful to do all these other things, then just keep your hobby as a hobby. |
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