Just realized the 'side hustle' everyone talks about actually made my main job feel worse
For about a year, I kept hearing that getting a side gig was the way out of my dead end office job. I finally tried it, doing freelance data entry from home for maybe 10 hours a week. It brought in an extra $300 a month, which was nice, but it completely backfired. Instead of feeling like I was moving forward, I just felt more trapped. I was spending my evenings and weekends doing the same boring tasks I hated all day, just for a different boss. It didn't give me energy or new skills, it just ate up my free time and made me resent my main job even more because I was never really off the clock. I quit the side work last month and feel way less burned out, even though I'm still stuck in the same place. Has anyone else found that trying to hustle just made the main problem feel bigger?