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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

What's a side hustle and should I start one?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2665 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

There are a lot of side gigs out there. (Nerds took some for a test drive!) Here’s how to tell which ones are worth it and which are scams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:32.6

Hello and welcome to Nerdwalt's smart money Podcast, where we answer your real-world money

0:38.5

questions in 15 minutes or less.

0:40.6

I'm your host, Sean Piles.

0:42.3

And joining me as my co-host, Deanna Yocham.

0:45.2

So we recently got a question from Amber in Oakland.

0:48.9

And Amber wonders, what is the side hustle and should I start one?

0:53.4

Ah, the side hustle.

0:55.5

That was a very heavy side.

0:58.0

What a side hustle is depends on who's using the words so far as I've seen.

1:02.8

One is the quote unquote passion project side hustle where you work on a hobby like getting clothes for cats or eating jewelry or coding an app and hope to maybe

1:12.6

make some dollars from it someday.

1:14.6

On the cat sweaters.

1:16.6

That's great.

1:17.4

Yes.

1:18.1

So that is the classic version of the side hustle.

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