Your 5-Week Plan To Starting A Side Hustle Over Your Lunch Break

Side hustle guru Chris Guillebeau explains how to turn an idea into an offer by putting in just 20 to 30 minutes a day.

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By Chris Guillebeau

If you’ve ever received an email from PayPal or some other “You’ve got money” notification, you know how it feels to get paid in addition to your paycheck. If you haven’t, here’s a hint: It feels good! The problem, of course, is that you’re busy — possibly too busy to develop a lucrative side hustle. You have a job and no shortage of other responsibilities, in addition to that elusive “social life” you’ve heard people talk about.

But the truth is that if you can carve out 20 to 30 minutes a day — in other words, part of your daily lunch break — to developing your side hustle, you will have something tangible to show for it in just five weeks. Here’s a quick overview of what it takes, based on the detailed plan I lay out in my new book, Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days.

Weeks 1 And 2: Test And Choose The Best Idea

You probably didn’t learn Side Hustling 101 in college, or if you did, you just learned how to trade time for money. But that’s not what we’re trying to accomplish here…