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Why Your Side Hustle May Actually Be Good for Your Main Job
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The Benefits of Having a Side Hustle
Having a side hustle can make people better at their day jobs and improve their overall happiness and success. The stigma around side gigs has shifted, with not having a side hustle being seen as not trying hard enough. Despite concerns about distraction, research shows that a side hustle actually empowers workers and enhances their performance in their full-time jobs. Side hustles provide individuals with a sense of empowerment, leading to positive emotions and better job performance. The rise of side hustles is attributed to the availability of numerous apps and opportunities in the gig economy, allowing people to earn extra income and pursue their passion projects.
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Today, we're focusing in on things that you do on the side, in
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addition to a full-time job,
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and what that means for you and for your boss. Hudson Sessions spends a lot of time thinking about that. He's an assistant professor of management and organizations at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He studies side hustles and their impact on worker happiness and success. And he told me that in the last couple decades, the stigma around side gigs has shifted.
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It's almost like if you don't have a side hustle, you're not really trying. There's just so many opportunities.
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Despite this new cache, some people, employees and employers alike, still worry that side hustles are a distraction. Could it drain your focus, energy, and drive at the place that actually pays your salary? According to Hudson, though, you shouldn't be worried. His research finds that a side hustle actually makes people better at their day jobs, partially because it makes them feel better about themselves. That side hustle gives workers a sense of empowerment.
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People can experience that daily empowerment, and ultimately that carries through in these positive emotions in a way that can enrich full-time work and actually make people perform just a little bit better on a day-to-day basis.
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He told me how that works. But first, I wanted to know precisely why we're seeing so much more side hustling these days.
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So I think part of the rise of side hustles is somewhat of a, if you build it, they will come effect in which now there is just a million apps in which people can do so many different things. I mean, if you're a crafter, you can sell your artwork whereas you couldn't before. If you're a podcaster, for example, you can find different avenues for that. There are just so many different ways for people to earn a little bit of extra income that I think part of the effect we're seeing is that there's just lots of opportunities from the gig economy for people to do more than they have in the past.
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