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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3009 - Q&A: “How can I work fewer hours without losing income?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Small Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship,, Entrepreneurship

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we help a web developer reduce his work hours while keeping his income steady. Learn how to raise rates, outsource tasks, and restructure service packages to build a smarter, more sustainable business.

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: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.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. 😎 🙏🏼 

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: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.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. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

Calm the chaos of order fulfillment with the shipping software that delivers. Switch to ShipStation

0:05.1

today. Go to Shipstation.com and use Code Sidehustle to sign up for your free trial. That's Shipstation.com

0:12.2

Code Sidehustle.

0:16.2

Lemonada

0:16.8

Lemonada. It's a big day in my world.

0:26.5

I am hosting an event called Neurodiversion on live in Austin, Texas.

0:31.2

I'll be sharing a bit on my stories on Instagram, in case you are not live in Austin, Texas with us.

0:36.1

So I've been working on this for months.

0:37.6

It's great to see it come to life.

0:39.2

But of course, we have the podcast as well, and that's why you're tuning in.

0:42.0

Today's question, how can I work fewer hours without losing income?

0:46.0

That's right.

0:46.4

We can do more than one thing at a time.

0:48.5

And one way we can do that, well, maybe we can actually do more than one thing at a time. But one way we can do more of what's important to us is by making critical decisions about our side hustle, our various projects,

1:00.5

how can we perhaps reduce work hours while keeping income steady? That's what we're going to talk

1:04.9

about in this episode. Again, live from Texas, freelancers and service-based entrepreneurs often hit

1:10.4

a point where success leads to

1:12.1

overwhelm. So we're going to hear today from a web developer whose business is thriving,

1:16.6

but at the cost of working way too much, 60 plus hours a week, he says, and he wants to scale back

1:21.7

without disappointing long-term clients, and of course without losing his money. So let's talk about

1:26.4

some options for him. What might he do?

1:28.6

I've got some ideas about that. I'm excited to bring them to you. Detailed question and my answer

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