Main hustle Vs Side hustle

Many times we get to live our life striving for ways to survive and make a living. We all have different ways of making money and earning a living. Some work hard and tirelessly and they get paid in little amounts. On the other hand, some have to work but they get paid for their efforts more than the efforts made.

That's how I got to know the difference between working hard and working smart.

Working hard: you might work all day and even sweat as much as you could and at the end of it all not get paid for something worth your efforts. Working hard is cool. It makes you an expert and experienced person in such a field but over time you get stressed and older than your age.

For example, a farmer has to work on a farm with hectares of land. He wanted to plow and decided to use a house for plowing. He is working hard but not working smart.

Working smart: Working smart has to deal with wisdom and knowledge about something you are into. Not everyone works smart. Working smart is not about laziness but it’s just a way of making things easier and requires less effort.

Working smart with the example from working hard is another farmer who has to plow the same land and decided to use a plowing instrument. He attached his plow to a beast of burden and got the job done with ease.

Both of them are working but they work differently.

At the end of the day when it comes to earnings the farmer who had worked smart would seem to have a bigger earning due to his effortless way of working and the other one working hard might see the earning as something low because of the effort he put into it.

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Side hustle vs main hustle

It’s been said not to put all our eggs in one basket. It’s not advisable to do so because we are just putting all our investments at a similar risk. So with this having different streams of income is the best way we could have a good source of living.

Having a main source of income could serve as an active income stream. Where you make efforts into a job and keep the money coming while they are used for settling expenses.

The income from the side hustle would serve as a passive source of savings. When it’s time for an emergency then the income from the side hustle would fill up the gaps.

Hive platform could serve both purposes and it depends on how much you have to put in and how much you get in return. The hive platform to some serves as a side hustle if having a job that pays more and settles off their debts and expenses. And to some, the hive is their main hustle because that is where their main stream of income is and they must have invested a lot in it.

So in conclusion, we should try differentiating between our main hustle and side hustle so we can have a proper and balanced financial life.