side hustle
noun- Near-synonyms: side gig, side job
- But think of this side hustle as an opportunity to do something you love to do.2015 December 14, Carl Richards, “Your Most Valuable Asset Is Yourself”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2020:
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- “There are side hustles for all those things,” she says. “I love the side hustle. It allows you to do something that your job does not allow you to do.”2017 March 31, Rob Walker, “Headphones Won’t Solve the Problem of a Chatty Colleague”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2018:
- The majority of Americans with a side hustle are young millennials,[…]2017 August 11, “Survey: 44 million Americans have a “side hustle””, in WSPA 7NEWS, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2023:
- He wrote on Twitter that the submissions were largely “driven by ‘side hustle’ experts making claims of easy money with ChatGPT.”2023 February 23, Michael Levenson, quoting Neil Clarke, “Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2023:
- Ms. Mishra, the Purdue graduate, did not get the burrito-making gig at Chipotle. But her side hustle as a beauty influencer on TikTok, she said, helped her realize that she was more enthusiastic about tech marketing and sales than software engineering.2025 August 10, Natasha Singer, “Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2025:
- Related terms
- on the side, side piece, sidequest, gig economy, moonlighting, nixer