Instead, far more often, people take on second or third side hustles because of wage stagnation or low pay at their full-time jobs. They need these second jobs because their first jobs don’t cover astronomically rising rents, record health care costs or swelling college tuition. A full 30 percent of Americans do something else for pay in addition to their full-time jobs, according to an NPR/Marist survey last year. You can see the twisted alchemy of what Reddit’s founder Alexis Ohanian has called “hustle porn.”Commercial websites like Side Hustle Nation extol the joy of the new unstable labor, although its payoff actually arrives for only a few. As Nick Loper, the site’s “chief side hustler” writes, “My escape route was a side hustle business I built in my spare time — and you can do it too.” Medium has a whole Side Hustle publication.

Source: New York Times April 06, 2019 18:22 UTC