The Retirement Newsletter: Side-hustles — a summary

Issue Number: -8 — Fifteen ways of making money on the side

Photo by Author — this photo has nothing to do with the contents of this newsletter — I just like the photo I took of a mushroom in the woods

Welcome

Welcome to issue -8, which is the 137th edition of this newsletter. That is 137 weeks (2 years and 33 weeks) of newsletters — some 62,000 words, which an average person would take 4 hours and 20 minutes to read.

Around 20 of the newsletters have been about side-hustles. So, why do I keep writing about side-hustles?

Side-hustles

I have written a lot about side-hustles in retirement, and my interest stems from three things — making some extra money, keeping my mind active in retirement and having fun. All of which I consider to be equally important.

Over the last 137 weeks, I have written about passive income in your retirement and the idea of evergreen income, and I have suggested fifteen possible ways to make a little extra cash:

1. Reading — see Issue -92 of the newsletter where I looked at Reading as a side-hustle.
2. Exercise — see Issue -89 on Exercise as a side-hustle.
3. Writing — Writing as a side-hustle was discussed in issue -86.
4. YouTube and Photos — I first explored this in issue -84 — YouTube and Photos as a…