Ep. 3199 - Q&A: “How do I handle a non-compete that hurts my side hustle?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
A promotion with strings attached can stall a thriving side hustle. Today we’ll walk through reading the fine print, negotiating carve-outs, and keeping both your boss and your business on the road.
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.
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| 0:50.7 | How do you handle a non-compete that potentially harms your side hustle? |
| 1:00.2 | This is an interesting problem. |
| 1:02.0 | Yesterday we had an interesting problem with a viral hustle, somebody receiving 500 orders |
| 1:07.1 | all of a sudden in a manual labor business. |
| 1:10.1 | And what do you do? |
| 1:12.1 | Well, today we've got a listener with a side hustle taking off. I don't know if it's quite viral level, but it's, |
| 1:16.0 | it's doing really, really well as well. They're making half their salary in under a year. |
| 1:21.8 | And why is this a problem? Well, because an opportunity at their day job comes with a |
| 1:26.6 | non-compete. |
| 1:27.8 | Basically, they have to sign something that says that they're not going to side hustle effectively, |
| 1:33.5 | or at least not in this category or this industry or so on. |
| 1:36.7 | So, you know, what do you do? |
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