Not selling out your time

• If you’re going to do side work, it’s better to do productive activities that you can control, rather than selling out your time.

  • https://www.facebook.com/halsk/posts/10156406626349040
  • The type of side work that sells out your time is exhausting, but it doesn’t accumulate assets.

  • Better to invest time in productive activities that can create value other than money.

    • Related: Side work for money and side work for achievement….

    • service, or create a company.

    • I’d rather start with something that doesn’t pay the bills, but that I sincerely want to do.

      • If you have a core business, there is little risk of failure.

      • If you can invest your time in an area where others cannot, you can become number one in that world.

      • In fact, Georepublic began as a sideline company.

      • For about two years before we got going, we had a full time employee but I was on the sidelines as CEO.

  • Yuya Nishimura: In our company, you can create your own company or have your own business, but double management is basically a no-no. If the other side is in charge of giving orders, things get crazy, so I say that anything is fine as long as I do it myself.

Related: Misconception of parallel work as multiple employment contracts.

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