From Paper Dreams to Reality Checks: The Side Hustle Experience

And why I’ve ditched every side hustle for the one business-at-a-time approach.

Ellen "Jelly" McRae
The Startup
Published in
14 min readNov 24, 2023

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The burnout business owner or rich side hustler? Which one is it? | Image created on Canva

I spent ten years side hustling, and I’m never going to recoup my waste of time.

For the decade, I maintained a full-time job and a part-time business, sometimes more than one. I thought my savvy…

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Ellen "Jelly" McRae
The Startup

I’m here to use my wins and losses in #relationships as your cautionary tale | Writes 1LD; Cautionary tale women's fiction | https://linktr.ee/ellenjellymcrae