side hustles
Income beyond work
Side hustles is the plural of side hustle, a job or income source pursued alongside regular employment.
The term emerged from hip-hop culture and spread into mainstream usage in the 2010s with the gig economy.
Side hustles range from freelance work to selling crafts online: She drives for Uber as a side hustle.
The word carries connotations of entrepreneurial ambition and financial anxiety in equal measure.
- moonlightingCovert additional employment
- night shiftOvernight work period
- freelancingSelf-directed contract work
- consultingGiving expert advice professionally
- gig economyWork based on temporary contracts
gig · odd jobs · entrepreneurship · self-employment · making ends meet · tutoring · photography · project-based work · cottage industry · casual labor · small enterprises · part-time work · bootstrapped · babysitting · home-based business · microbusiness · driving · peer-to-peer lending
- side worksecond job, moonlighting, gig work, temp, multiple jobs
- Modern Trendscancel culture, doom scrolling, doomscrolling, echo chambers, fake news
- social trendsincome inequality, feminism, social mobility, environmentalism, wealth gap
- work arrangementsjob sharing, part-time, part-time work, full-time, remote work
- millennialsavocado toast, student debt, student loans, adulting, FOMO
- work freedomcareer choice, job mobility, self-employment, freelancing, entrepreneurship
side hustlesday job
Primary paid employment
full-time job · full-time employment · career · profession · vocation
side hustlessteady paycheck
pension · union job · fixed income · guaranteed income · permanent position
side hustlespassive income
Money earned without labor
trust fund · inheritance · investment returns · financial independence · generational wealth
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