the.com/side hustle
A second job you chose, so suffering now feels like ambition.
means Paid work you do on top of your main job, usually to make extra money or chase a passion your day job doesn't pay for.
from 'Hustle' meaning vigorous effort or scheming to make money traces to American slang from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, itself from a Dutch-rooted verb meaning to shake or jostle. 'Side hustle' as a set phrase is much newer, gaining real traction in the US around the 2000s–2010s, riding alongside gig-economy work and the general hustle-culture vocabulary of entrepreneurship blogs and social media.
- origin
- term goes back to 1950s hustler slang
- math problem
- often earns less than minimum wage per hour
- real function
- insurance policy against your main job's instability
- tax truth
- irs treats it as a business after three profitable years