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Side Hustle Clarified

Did you plan some side hustle in this New Year Resolutions for 2024?

Zhimin Zhan
6 min readJan 1, 2024

This is a part of the IT Terminology Clarified series.

Today is 2024–01–01, a usual New-Year Resolutions Time. The topic of this article is about the recently-popular term “Side Hustle”, which many tend to include in this year’s “to-do list”.

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Side Hustle: “a piece of work or a job that you get paid for doing in addition to doing your main job”. (Cambridge Dictionary)

Frankly, I don’t like the term with the uncommon word “Hustle”. I think “Side Work” is better.

Table of Contents:
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Side Hustle is “Hot”
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First, Employees doing side hustle is mostly a good thing for day jobs.
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Why Side Hustle Becomes Popular?
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Side Hustle ideas
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Side Hustle is a long and hard journey
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The Success Rate of Software Side Hustle is Very Low

Side Hustle is “Hot”

The term Side Hustle has become more popular in recent years. According to research, around half of American employees do some level of Side Hustle.

A December survey from LendingTree of nearly 2,100 US consumers found 44% of Americans have a side gig in addition to full-time work, a jump of 13% since 2020. And that number is even higher among Gen Z employees, 62% of whom said they have a side hustle. — Source: Business Insider

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230302-the-rise-of-the-gen-z-side-hustle

I started doing a side hustle (no such term then) in 2006; this article shares my thoughts on Side Hustle. (I may write another to share my experience). The content of this article is relevant to all types of side hustles, but it is tilted towards software, given my background as a software engineer and test automation coach

First, Employees doing side hustle is mostly…

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Zhimin Zhan
Zhimin Zhan

Written by Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.

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