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The Attempts (13)

• The Survey Streak I Broke on Purpose
• The Brother-in-Law Pitched Me and I Almost Said Yes
• The DoorDash Order I Took During a Standup
• The DoorDash Shift I Did Not Tell the Kids About
• The Beta Testing Gig That Paid in Gift Cards
• I Sold Three Things Online and Found Out Why
• The DoorDash Shift I Planned Around a Promo
• The Survey That Paid Out the Wrong Week
• The Roblox Game Nobody Asked For But Us
• I Signed Up for Uber and Lasted Nine Days
• The Week I Tried to Make DoorDash Make Sense
• We Built a Roblox Game and Nobody Played It
• The AI Tool I Shipped That Two People Use

The Ledger (11)

• The Survey That Paid Eight Dollars and Felt Like Winning
• The DoorDash Shift I Forgot to Count the Parking
• The Survey That Paid and the One That Never Closed
• The DoorDash Shift I Drove and the Math I Did After
• The Cost of Every Hustle I've Started and Stopped
• What My Time Is Worth, Per a Spreadsheet I Hate
• The Night Victor Asked What I Cleared
• Adding Up One Month of Small Hustles
• What a Full Saturday of Dashing Actually Pays
• Counting the Hours I Do Not Get Paid For
• The Gas Math Nobody in the Facebook Groups Does

The Day Job (12)

• The Meeting Ran Long and the Dash Window Closed
• The Deploy That Ate My DoorDash Window
• The Week the Day Job Kept Me
• The Week the Deploy Ate My Buffer Time
• The Deploy That Ate My Whole Lunch Break
• 14 Years In and I Still Google the Same Command
• Standup From the Driveway, Build Still Running
• Standup at Nine, Deliveries at Seven
• What Remote Work Actually Bought Me
• The Day Job Is the Hustle That Actually Works
• The Meeting I Took From a Parking Lot
• Why I Have Never Quit to Do This Full Time

The Gurus (9)

• The Course That Sold Me a Habit I Already Had
• The Course That Confirmed What I Already Knew
• The Guru Who Was Right About One Thing
• The course was forty dollars, advice was free
• What the Comments Know That the Video Does Not
• I Watched Four Hours of Hustle Videos and Took Notes
• The Guy Selling the Course Has Never Done the Job
• The Screenshot Is Always the Best Week
• Why Every Side Hustle Video Skips the Boring Part

The Almosts (22)

• The Roblox Update I Almost Pitched to BIL
• The DoorDash Shift I Almost Talked Myself Out of Twice
• The DoorDash Shift I Almost Broke Even On
• The Survey App That Almost Had a Streak
• The Survey That Closed Before I Hit Submit
• The Survey I Finished Before the Kids Woke Up
• The Roblox Update the Kids Remember and I Don't
• The Reel I Almost Understood at 10K
• I Cloned My Voice in HeyGen and Kept Talking
• The Roblox Update John Actually Played
• The Tool That Almost Had Users
• The Roblox Update That Almost Covered the Fee
• The AI Tool I Almost Shipped Twice
• The Roblox Update That Almost Worked
• I Tried to Make HeyGen Sing in My Voice
• HeyGen Aspect Ratio Almost Got Me
• I Let HeyGen Make My Reels for a Week
• The AI Tool That Almost Had a Second User
• The Offer I Almost Took and Still Think About
• The Client Who Almost Paid Me
• The Month It Almost Added Up
• The Reel That Almost Went Somewhere

Rules I Made Up (11)

• Survey Paid Less Than the One That Dumped Me
• The Rule I Added After John Almost Cost Me
• The Survey Site That Logged Me Out Mid-Question
• The Roblox Money I Almost Counted as Real
• If It Needs a Second Person, It Is Not a Side Hustle
• Write It Down or It Did Not Happen
• The Two-Week Rule I Break Constantly
• The Survey Money I Spent Before It Cleared
• Do Not Buy the Gear Before the First Dollar
• Never Start a Hustle You Cannot Quit on a Tuesday
• Rules I Made Up That Turned Out to Be Wrong

Deal Hunting (19)

• The Code I Found After the Cart Went Through
• The Checkout I Finished Before I Talked Myself Out
• The Checkout I Almost Won With an Expired Code
• The Promo Code I Found Three Days Too Late
• The Checkout I Abandoned Twice for a Code
• The Stack Price I Paid to Save Eight Dollars
• The Promo Code I Found After I Checked Out
• The Order I Rebuilt Twice to Save Three Dollars
• The Cart I Rebuilt Three Times for Free Ship
• The Free Shipping Math I Did in a Parking Lot
• The App Discounts I Will Actually Wait For
• The Coupon Discipline I Learned From Being Broke
• The App Stack That Saved $11 and Cost an Hour
• The Promo Code I Oversold to John
• The Pizza Order That Made Me Feel Like a Genius
• Why Deal Hunting Beats Every Hustle I Have Tried
• How I Decide What Dinner Costs
• Saving Forty Dollars Is Easier Than Earning It
• The Promo Code Stack That Feeds Everybody on a Thursday