A year of business content taught me nothing that survived contact with an actual business. Comparing notes with people running small things, the split is sharp. Credited Doing it badly for a while. Unsatisfying, and…
Started something alongside a full time job with a plan of two evenings and a Saturday morning. That was the deal I made with myself and with my partner. In practice it is in my head constantly. I check messages at…
Eight months in on evenings and weekends, roughly £150 a month, which is less than I hoped and more than nothing. I keep oscillating between thinking it's about to click and thinking I should stop. I don't have a…
US, H 1B through my employer, who has said in writing that they do not mind. I want to take maybe five hours a week of design contracts, small stuff, a few thousand a year at most. Everyone at work has a confident…
I need about $600 a month extra and I have twelve hours on evenings and Saturdays. Option one is shifts at a shop I already know, fixed rate, someone else tells me when to turn up. Option two is freelance bookkeeping at…
Agreed £600 flat for what was described as a five page site. Three weeks in it's eleven pages, two rounds of copy rewrites I didn't quote for, and now they want a booking form. I've done roughly half the work. I don't…
I do virtual assistant work on the side and it pays fine, but the day I stop, the money stops, which is the whole problem. I have about six months of evenings and roughly £3,000 I am willing to lose. I have already…
Day job plus family means I realistically have about ten hours a week, mostly evenings. I've got an offer to do ongoing work for one client at roughly £45/hour that would eat all ten, or I can keep juggling three…
I do small bookkeeping cleanups for sole traders. Nine clients so far, and eight of them trace back to one friend who keeps referring me. She's not going to have infinite contacts. I've tried posting in local business…
Started selling a digital template a year ago, mostly passive now, about £400 a month gross through a payment platform. Full time employed otherwise. I have kept every payout email but no real records. I'm now nervous…