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Don't Tell Anyone About Your Side Business at Work

i wouldn't recommend this path. My final year of teaching and trying to do youtube on the side was the worst year of my adult life thus far. Just don't tell anybody at work, even though there are many situations where it feels like a natural thing to do when a conversation comes up. If people do discover your side project, you should always plan for some kind of plausible deniability. So i wouldn't, for example, have a big announcement about how this is the thing that you hope will eventually replace your full time job. I would always want to be able to parley it off to any co workers as, oh,. this is a hobby, this is a thing that

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