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SIDE HUSTLE BURN OUT

We are often told to have a game plan before you leave your day job and start life as a full time entrepreneur. Part of the game plan is making that entrepreneurial venture a side hustle.  When that side hustle starts to make you enough money to leave the day job, then you can safely go. Or when you have at least 6 months salary equivalent you can start your new independent life. But how often does this actually happen? And worse what happens when you burn out in the process of juggling both. The choice in my journey was to get rid of my debts, get that six months padding and then say toodles. But that doesn't happen on its own.  It's rare that your current job can give you enough margin to achieve those financial objectives in the short time an impatient entrepreneur wants to get things going. So it's either the side hustle or freelance work that will bridge the money gap.  The challenge though is, those things require energy. In my case of product creation, my side hust