Edit Introduction: In order to realize economic freedom as soon as possible, many migrant workers choose to start their own side job journey. On social platforms, many users also shared the "interesting things" that happened during their devotion to their side jobs. So, have those young people who start their side jobs really made money in the end?
- "Every time to edit, you can easily earn 20,000 yuan a month!"
- "You can handle it with one mobile phone, 0 basic part-time jobs, and novices can make a fortune!"
Every time you go to work, small advertisements that attract you to do side jobs will take advantage of the situation and pop up accurately on your retina through your mobile phone and computer screens.
does not require experience, uses fragmented time, and makes money anytime, anywhere...
It seems that the distance between you and your financial freedom is only a side job.
even experienced people who have experienced it will tell you with great sincerity: "A worker without a side job is incomplete."
And in real life, more and more young people have begun to practice the old saying "more skills can't suppress themselves" -
In addition to their jobs, everyone has explored "100 possibilities for side jobs."
Some set up stalls at the subway entrance, some do self-media, some do part-time photography, and some do extras on weekends...
can't help but make people curious, have those young people busy with side jobs really make money in the end?
11. This young man has started taking a side job?
"Slash youth, slow employment , flexible employment, side job needs."
If you are also a working person, there is always one of these words that you look familiar with.
It is not difficult to see through these words how much demand for side jobs in this generation of young people is.
After all, they face a problem together - employment, it is difficult.
In 2022, a new batch of college graduates exceeded 10 million for the first time, and the scale and number reached a record high.
This means that the competition for employment this year is unprecedentedly fierce, and in the face of increasingly tight job demands, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is the "hardest employment season". It is also difficult to get ashore in the postgraduate entrance examination.
According to statistics, the number of people taking the postgraduate entrance examination this year is 4.57 million, 800,000 more than last year; the number of people taking the official exam exceeded 2 million.
Not only is it difficult to find a job, but the news of layoffs led by major Internet companies has made people who already have jobs more worried about gains and losses.
When this "survival pressure" penetrates into the workplace, the mentality of migrant workers also changes quietly.
If in the past few years, "slash youth" was an additional item that young people added to the cake to the workplace; then now, "doing side jobs" is a must-have option to relieve anxiety.
Open Xiaohongshu and search for "side business", there are 600,000+ notes, sharing different side business strategies.
Douban In the "One Day of Failed Side Job" group, there are 200,000 team members who share online their mental journey of struggling on the side job.
Image source Douban
In the Weibo topic square, hundreds of millions of times read and hundreds of thousands of discussions, it also outlines the workplace B-side of white-collar workers who "sit upright" in the office every day -
main business and side businesses "flowing together", either doing side businesses or exploring side businesses.
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"Seven days to get started, learn and organize", "colleagues are all secretly learning", various advertisements about doing side jobs are put on the APP, which always arouses anxiety among people in the workplace.
According to the "2022 Internet Recruitment Job Search Industry Insight Report", although people of different ages face different workplace problems.
However, "restricted growth", "workplace bottlenecks" and "sub-health" have become problems faced by "old, middle-aged and young workers".
Many of them chose to develop side jobs to find another "way of life".
In order to quickly improve its own value, the side jobs of post-90s and 95s have explored offline to online.
from part-time jobs in coffee shops and convenience stores to pet doctors and fitness coaches, to online goods and self-media operations.
All fresh and promising side jobs are willing to try.
Some people suggest that it is best to choose a side business that is related to the main business, so that at least it can benefit mutually.
Therefore, many young people who encounter bottlenecks in the workplace and face the risk of layoffs and salary cuts have started their first side job based on their own professional skills.
Part-time accounting, legal affairs, or lecturers and tutors who need experience and education, and if you do well, you may have the opportunity to "turn a deputy to a chief", which is a plan B that will prepare for the future outside of your career.
"Don't put eggs in the same basket" is well versed in this workplace and puts it into action.
allocating limited energy to different jobs and "earning more eggs" has become a consensus among side business people who are brave enough to move forward.
Of course, not all side jobs have as high professional threshold as "part-time accountants".
If you just want to make money from a Buddhist milk tea, then there are low-threshold side jobs such as setting up a stall, doing handicrafts, and picking up a shop.
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If you are hard-working and willing to put in your energy, then the quicker flash delivery , takeout and designated drivers can open the door to you at any time.
If you are diligent enough, using your side job to subsidize your household income is just around the corner.
Nowadays, with the unremitting exploration of side business people, the directions available for this track are much wider than people initially imagined, and it can even be said to be "various".
Someone is online tarot divination, listening to strangers talking, solving their emotional problems, and even discussing life choices with them.
communicate, open cards, and answer in just one hour, and easily get one hundred yuan.
Someone keeps doing his hand in his spare time, putting homemade hairpins, necklaces, earrings, and felt on the platform for sale.
As monthly shipments become more and more frequent, the number of revenue is also accumulating little by little.
is also a selling thing. When some people are still keen on more traditional street stalls, many young people have begun to study online videos to sell goods.
"Making money for buns is not much, but it is a good start."
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2. Have people who do side jobs really got money?
In addition to their jobs, waves of young people are making their side jobs prosperous.
But can do side jobs really help them achieve economic freedom and the "second spring of career" as expected? There are indeed a few people who have done it in
.
has the skills of a big guy in the workplace, from platform operation to part-time lecturer, and using his expertise to earn 40,000 per month on side jobs, even exceeding the main business income.
Someone is an anchor on the live broadcast platform, and after exploring it, he also earned 2,000 yuan.
Image source Douban
But as the saying goes, human joys and sorrows are not the same. When it comes to side jobs, some companies are even more happy and worried.
In terms of "worry", Douban's "One Day of Failure in Side Job" has the most say.
has only been established for two years and has attracted more than 200,000 members. This is like a "large-scale side job test field" that exists online.
Open the group page and you will see someone asking about part-time skills and someone sharing side job guides, but the most is the lightning protection experience post posted by the enthusiastic "side job loser".
Some part-time novices stayed up late and worked in PPT all night and earned 10 yuan with tears in their eyes.
Image source Douban
Someone tried to be the up master, and the video playback volume was finally reached 400,000, thinking that they would make a big profit.
Open the account and check it out and only earn two cups of milk tea.
"If you have this time, it's better to do something else. Picking up bottles may be better than this."
In order to earn royalties, he insisted on updating 8,000 words a day on the novel website. Who knew that 5 yuan per thousand words cost 5 yuan, and he lost the motivation to type the next day.
excitedly received a part-time job order. A poster costs only 10 yuan, so I don’t even bother to open the computer.
Want to make some money but feel discouraged
Behind every post is the bloody and tears of everyone falling on the sidelines.
Then I realized that the side job was the "workplace smoke bomb" that looked relaxed on the surface but hidden bitter fruits inside.
The labor force in the side job is actually cheaper than the job; the investment and return of doing side jobs are completely disproportionate.
Young people who want to rely on it to enjoy themselves, without others' dissuasion, completed the entire process of "from getting started to giving up".
And if you want to get out of the field you are good at and expand on your side job that requires other skills, congratulations on jumping into a deeper pit.
When you come to a strange field to do a side job, the first step is often to learn.
search for related topics, and the overwhelming number of posts selling courses - "3 hours to get started", "0 basics to get started", "easy to earn 20,000 yuan per month".
's day-long course title and "successful cases" that are difficult to distinguish between true and false, have severely grasped the mentality of workers who are anxious to make money.
, as the saying goes, high-end hunters often appear in the form of prey.
When you grit your teeth and pay for the expensive tuition, this master who just kindly "introduces you" will most likely change his face and teach you something useless perfunctorily.
When you run out of patience and cool down with enthusiasm, he will completely disappear and appear in the friend list of the next side job reserve.
"It took 1,600 yuan to buy the operation course, but in the end there were less than 100 fans in half a day of operation, and I have not earned back the tuition fees so far."
This is not a joke, but a painful experience of many young people who are full of confidence and want to do side jobs, being cheated of money and time.
If you fail to do a side job offline, it will be considered as losing money and gaining publicity at most; then once you fail online, the more ambitious and have higher investment costs, the more "both people and money" will end up.
In addition, you can't spend time studying, have no experience, and have too little face. Any small obstacle may extinguish a person's side job.
Finally, in the "workplace survival game" of side jobs, there are still only a handful of lucky people who really succeed in making money.
"You can't make big money, but you can't look down on small money." is the norm for most sideline workers.
3. How to do side jobs so as not to lose money?
Working in side jobs, getting poorer the more you get, is the real situation faced by many side jobs.
Seeing many people gradually getting lost and putting the cart before the horse on the road to side jobs, someone came to a conclusion for them:
"Side jobs are a detour for young people to make money."
also suggests that they "see the reality clearly": "If you have that energy, it is better to improve yourself in your main business. Choosing the right path to improve yourself is the right way to improve your competitiveness in the workplace."
But if you "do not make money", you can make young people completely give up their side jobs, and then think too simply.
Although I saw the seniors hit a wall and were hit hard in the face of reality, there were still people who were still moving into the door of side jobs one after another, and were eager to inquire:
"How to choose the first side job?"
"Why should I choose the one that is quick to monetize, or are you interested in it?"
If you don't make money, what magic does the side job have? Do this young people prefer to use "love" to generate electricity?
In fact, for people who are truly passionate, whether a side job makes money or not does not determine the meaning of its existence.
In other words, making money is only one aspect. Young people get from their "side jobs" and there are many things that cannot be exchanged for money.
Sometimes, doing a side job can optimize the income structure and expand your network, help them improve their ability to resist risks in an uncertain workplace, and gain a sense of security.
Sometimes, outside of high-pressure work, being able to take some time to do what you are good at and like, and exploring an unknown field is also a way to relieve stress.
Sometimes, being able to do things that you think are meaningful and are expected and needed is something that can give people happiness.
There are also people who do side jobs just to satisfy their curiosity.
allows your soul to escape for a short time. Even if you hit a wall in the end, it will be considered an extra life experience.
After all, life focuses on experience, and every attempt may be to build your own moat.
To put it bluntly, only if you have experienced it once, you can know whether the side job will increase internal friction or tactical recovery.
Many people have rarely touched the precious sense of reality from life itself while leaving the workplace to do side jobs.
and these are experiences that cannot be possessed by the bystanders.
Get off after getting tired, and then set off again
When the uneasy mood disappears in the busyness of the side job, the mental internal friction that has been immersed in the workplace for a long time may disappear little by little.
For young people who have their own ideas, it would not be a loss if they can find a little hope for life in a messy day.
Original title: "Internet celebrity side job, aggravates my spiritual internal friction"
Author: Caoxi Xiaomei; Official account: Caoxi (ID: caozhi163)
Original link: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/OoftIEgHGRaMkpiJJ8PajQ
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