It’s a good playbook: Get paid for what you’re good at and use a side hustle as a creative outlet.
But beware burnout.
‘I am never off the clock’: inside the booming world of gen Z side hustles [The Guardian] – “On top of her day job in the tech giant’s security and artificial intelligence department, Doshi also publishes social media content about working in tech and her life in New York City, and records podcasts – sometimes all three in a day.
She is part of a seismic generational shift: 57% of gen Z Americans have a side hustle, according to recent Harris Poll research, compared with 21% among boomers.
Rather than throwing everything into a single career, many young adults are now spinning plates – using their main job as financial bedrock while directing their passion, and ambition, elsewhere.“