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Hey all. I need some advice. When getting started in your career, or even after you're established, what side jobs do you do to help make it all work?

Quick background for me. Based in Austin, TX. I've been doing guitar repair evenings/weekends for 14 years now. I've been working an office day job this whole time. Day job pays me $30/hour. As a looth, I charge $70. I can make the equivelent of one day job paycheck loothing in the evenings from 10pm-1am per month and I routinely turn away business so not to overload myself. I have just about every tool I need to do most jobs and a dedicated workshop in my backyard in a house I own. 11 years left on my mortgage which I pay equally with my wife (who also works a big girl job).

I've gone back and forth on when/if I take the plunge into loothing full time. I feel like there's plenty of business in my town but I've never seen the reality of it, splitting my two careers. As I said before, I have a mortgage, a wife and two small children. I have savings to sustain myself for about a year if I made zero dollars starting right now.

My other skillsets include digital graphics, Adobe Creative Suite, WordPress/website, office work type stuff, making Reels for social media. I'm still able bodied for manual labor and I own a truck. I have a 2x4' CNC machine that I still need to learn how to use. I feel like I have plenty of potential between my skillsets and I certainly have the drive for work. I guess I'm missing ideas.

What other streams of income or additional forms of work have you utilized to sustain yourself?