How Side Hustling Elevated My Life
It’s not just the money!
Hello dear friend
Pursuing a side hustle changed my life.
I’ve always loved writing. My first published words were when I was 4 years old. I’d written a poem that my parents submitted to a local newspaper. An act of innocent pride that now remains a core memory.
In 2014, I started writing online.
At that time, I didn’t know what a “side hustle” meant. I had no hopes of ever making money from my writing. All I cared about was putting words on paper. If someone from other side of the world commented how much they were impacted by my writing, it was an icing on the cake.
My first brush with making money from writing came during the pandemic. It was 2020, and a story I’d written on Medium went semi-viral, raking in $100 in less than a week.
To an Indian, $100 is worth a lot. Making that much from one story that took me less than two hours to write was nothing short of a miracle.
That was the first time I considered my passion for writing could actually make me rich. That’s when I got more intentional about it — studying stats, understanding platform algorithms, breaking down the works of best-performing writers. You know the drill.
Fast forward to 2024, and I’m a full-time writer.
What started as a hobby has become a profession. I get to spend days doing nothing but plotting stories in my head, and call it the peak of productivity. I get to take time off without asking anyone for permission or worrying about paying the bills.
This life is beyond any miracle I could have ever hoped for. And in this article, I wish to share a glimpse of it with my readers.
The goal is to show you what lies on the other side of your self-doubt. To make you believe that a world exists where you could wake up every day filled with excitement to work on your passion project, and be paid ridiculously well for it.
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With love,
Anangsha.