Quote from: slapper on Today at 05:23:49 AM

Quote from: bayu7adi on Today at 02:33:36 AM

Quote from: panganib999 on May 23, 2023, 07:39:12 PM

Now, check your main job's hourly rate. If it's 50% or higher, then you have a pretty solid side-job and I suggest you keep it. Anything below 50% to me is a complete waste of time and shouldn't be pursued, cause you could be using that time to work for more valuable ventures and you're wasting it over a side-hustle that pays you peanuts.

There should be tolerance for side jobs related to our hobbies, even if the income from them is below 50% compared to our main job.
For instance, imagine a person who works exhausting 8-hour shifts during the day. When they return home, they enjoy playing a game that allows them to earn money by live streaming and promoting the game. They find pleasure in their hobby and receive payment for their live streams.
Is it wrong to be someone who lives a more relaxed life while enjoying their youth?

Let me interpose. It appears that our trusty guide, conventional wisdom, might have stumbled off the beaten path. We often mistake time for a golden goose, tallying life's fleeting moments like entries in a cash register. Are we not pilfering the treasure trove that life has to offer? Ponder on the side gig conundrum you've posed. From your vantage point, the person seems to be "squandering" their precious time. But wait a minute! What if they find a sweet taste of joy, fulfillment, and a zen-like calm in their endeavors? Shouldn't we value life's little pleasures as much as we value the bulge in our bank accounts? At times, the real worth of an activity doesn't make a grand appearance on our income statement but rather, in the sheer bliss it incites and the personal growth it kindles. So, instead of being slaves to the clock, perhaps we should include happiness and personal fulfillment as valuable commodities in our calculations.

I think I may have taken a pretty objective approach at side jobs in my prior comment (Which to me still isn't necessarily wrong but definitely leaves a lot out).

In any case, I agree with you guys. Personally, I think a stress-free hobby/side hustle is imperative, just as a good-paying side hustle, but I'd like to interpolate that things like this, are things that you should've considered right from the moment you decided you have to take that extra income stream. You wouldn't really take up another job that's stressing the fuck out of you that you'd be much better off just keeping a single job and retaining what little sanity that was left of you. So I figured since that is something that is already "common sense", it shouldn't be challenged per se when I'm talking about money-over-effort variation.

As for Slapper, you got a point, life's great and a fat bank account won't beat a peaceful and actualized life. But the main point of the post and this thread is how having a second-job/side gig's going to help you gain that financial stability which is arguably just as important as having a good life, won't you agree? Can't be having fun when you're worrying bout what to eat tomorrow, or where to get the money you'd pay your bills with, am I right? Doesn't really instill a sense of calm that way.