Signs It's Time to Make a Side Hustle Your Main Job

The most helpful thing you can do as you start your business is to build a cushion or a financial buffer that will give you some breathing room to experiment and learn and build your business. I always recommend starting it on the side, starting to prove out the idea, start to earn some extra money. Then you can decide maybe you want to create a rule for when to know when you can go full time. This is exactly what I did. I made a rule for myself. I was working at a full time job and my side business started to really take off and my rule was I'm not even going to think about quitting until my side business makes more than my full time business three months in a row. Not once, not twice, three consecutive months. That means it's not a fluke. I've got something real here. So for example, if you make $5,000 a month at your full time job, your side business might need to make at least 5,500 bucks three months in a row in order for you to comfortably quit your job.