When The Hustle Isn’t Bustling

Don’t lose hope or motivation. Rome wasn’t built in a day and your side hustle won’t be either.

Vee Goldman
3 min readSep 17, 2020
Photo by Garrhet Sampson on Unsplash

In these difficult times, we live in fear of job loss, disease (I’m not going to say the name, you all know what I’m talking about), and the societal upheaval of the moment. Very many of us are now thinking about alternative income streams to buffer and protect us from redundancy and loss of a paying job.

It may pay to have several in fact but they all come under one umbrella and its called “the side hustle”.

Accept this one fact NOW. You are not going to make millions in your first few months. You could well make only a few dollars. Even if you have only made a cent that cent is money in your bank. At this point, many people will think “Oh it's not going well, I’m going to give up” and so they do.

Wrong, damned wrong. If you want to make anything of a side hustle you’ve got to turn up to do it. A day here and there is just not going to cut it. It’ll cut you up mentally if you find that things aren't working when really you could be doing more. Look at where you could save time. Facebook is Wastebook. Many hours are wasted looking through social media and seeing what Doreen had for breakfast. Do I care what Doreen had for breakfast, hell no, and neither…

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Vee Goldman

Makes various jottings about life, the universe, and other stuff. Mother, Wife, Sheep Whisperer, and Free Spirit. For some reason has started writing poetry.