How Side Hustles Can Help You Step Away From A Stressful Career

Career stress can be a serious problem. The further you get into your career, the more financial obligations you’re likely to accrue from rent, to mortgage, to pets, children, and even grandchildren. As a result, many people start to feel trapped in their jobs, without enough time or energy left over at the end of the day to even look for another option. What these people need is a simple side hustle.

The Major Benefits of Simple Side Hustles

It’s not hard to see why having a side hustle could be beneficial. More money is always better and being able to monetize your spare time allows you to pick and choose the time you devote to your side hustle. Furthermore, it allows you to build up savings so that, should you quit your job and look for something new, you have a longer buffer period.

The problem, however, is that in order to start a side hustle you usually need to devote a lot of time to it. Whether you’ve decided to jump into being an online content creator or you’ve just decided to look for some freelance work in your field, it’s going to take time to build what is, effectively, a self-employed business.

That being said, not all side hustles have to be so time-consuming to establish. A simple side hustle is usually one where your path to success is shorter and which will take less upfront work before the time you put in starts paying off.

Keeping It Stress Free

Of course, if the whole point of starting up your side hustle is to lower your stress levels, then it shouldn’t be something that requires too much work – upfront or otherwise. What you need to do is find the best way to capitalise on your situation and this can be a very personal matter.

For example, we mentioned earlier that some people decide to jump into online content creation. On the surface this is not the most lucrative use of your time because, while content creation can bring in a lot of money, it takes a while to build up an audience and there’s a lot of luck involved. On the other hand, depending on who you are and the style of content you’re creating, it may also be a relaxing or even enjoyable pursuit.

For these people, becoming a content creator can be an entertaining hobby as much as it is a side hustle. In fact, it can even be a way to relieve some of that stress. If that’s the case, then content creation is an ideal side hustle because it has the potential to replace a full-time career but takes up very little mental energy.

They say that if you love your job then you’ll never work a day in your life and, while that’s not always true, there is a truth to it. When looking to take on a side hustle, you should always try for something that feels simple, fun, and easy.

The Simplicity of Mentoring

All of which brings us to our favourite topic here at Career Navig8r: mentoring!

Mentoring is a wonderfully simple side hustle to take on because all it requires is you, your computer, an internet connection, and the wealth of all your experience. When you become a Mentor, your main role will be to break down how you got where you are and to help others do the same.

The real benefit, however, is time. Mentoring is incredibly easy to fit in around your usual schedule. After all, mentoring sessions are generally quite short (around an hour) and, because they’re online, they’re easy to rearrange if need be.

Furthermore, because you’ll have full control over who you choose to take on as a client, you won’t ever need to take on more work than you can handle. That way you can slowly build up your mentoring around your work time until you feel you’re at a place where you can go full-time, or else transition into another career.

Whether mentoring is just a side-job to keep you stable or a long-term career option, here at Career Navig8r, we’d love to have you on board. We believe that everyone has something to bring to the table as a Mentor through the combination of their unique experiences and their first-hand knowledge of the job they work. And who knows, once you give it a try, you might just find you get a taste for it?

If you’d like to become a Mentor, then all you need to do is make a free account, tell us a little about yourself, your experience, and the role you’ll be mentoring, and wait for the clients to start rolling in!