Leave My $200,000 Job for a Side Hustle
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4.5 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.7 | My wife and I are in Baby Step 7 with a net worth of about $1.6 million. I'm calling because I have |
| 0:14.0 | a plan to leave my corporate job for my side hustle and I kind of need a sanity check. I just want to know if I'm being a fool to trade security for independence, or, you know, |
| 0:24.8 | or is this exactly what Baby Step 7 is for? |
| 0:28.5 | Well, give us the numbers. |
| 0:29.8 | I love this question. |
| 0:31.4 | Tell us what your income is and your corporate job. |
| 0:34.5 | Okay, so I make close to $200,000 a year right now, and the side hustle, this is not great. Okay, so I make close to 200,000 a year right now and the side hustle, this is not great. |
| 0:42.1 | Consistently, it's about 2,000 a month that I bring in net and that has been over the course of two |
| 0:47.4 | years, a consistent 1,000 that we can count on. What is it? So it's just buying and selling abandoned storage units. I tried the first one |
| 0:56.5 | is kind of a hobby, and now my wife calls this my hobby joby. And I buy five or six a year, |
| 1:01.8 | so it's really not a lot, and I've just done this in my spare time. Yeah, this is just above a hobby. |
| 1:08.5 | She's right. Right. So how old are you? |
| 1:12.8 | I'm 44. |
| 1:14.1 | What old is she? |
| 1:16.1 | She's 39. |
| 1:17.4 | What does she make? |
| 1:19.3 | So up until about four months ago, she only had part-time jobs and worked in the home. |
| 1:25.8 | But starting in September, she got a full-time job |
| 1:28.7 | as a teacher, her dream job that she's always wanted to do. And now she's making about $4,000 a |
| 1:36.1 | month net. So she's meting $4,000. What do you do with your corporate job? What's your career? |
| 1:41.7 | So I'm a software developer. |
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