How To Manage A Side Hustle While Working Full Time

According to a recent study, 25 % to 50 % of the millenials have a side hustle while working a full time job. While your day job may be the one you really need to have, your passion to do something better than what you are doing right now drives you toward doing a side hustle. Balancing your career along with the side hustle can be a tricky task, especially when you don’t have the time to breathe. If you have the fire to achieve something beyond what you are doing, then this is how you could sort out the balance between your day job and side hustle.

1. Create a schedule

Often times, finishing all your tasks during your scheduled work day in itself can be quite a taxing process. If you add your side hustle to the mix, the situation can get all the more complicated. To help make your life easier, start your day by creating a schedule. Be it with a pen or paper or by using Google Calendar, working on your side hustle gets extremely easy when you know what to do through the day.

2. Make the most of the Pomodoro technique
The idea of the Pomodoro technique is, you allocate 25 minutes to every task and between each task, take a break of five minutes. By doing this, not only can you focus on the tasks at hand, but refresh your mind when you feel too overburdened. The Pomodoro technique helps in prioritizing the different tasks at hand and in streamlining your work process.

3. Keep a checklist always in sight!

Checklists are fun. Write down the things you have to do in a day and at the end of every day, start crossing out what you have finished and what is left. This helps in giving clarity of thought on what you have done through the day and the things you have to do for the next day. To help streamline the process, start carrying around slips of paper and have reminders on your phone to keep yourself updated about what is still to be done.

4. Don’t forget yourself

While you may try to stay sane, maintain your work life, manage to have a functional social life and stick to your side hustle at the same time, it is important to remember you have to take care of yourself first. Set limits for yourself in the number of things you can do in a day and the moment you think it becomes too much, take a step back. There’s no point in doing multiple things at the same time if you can’t take care of yourself, right?

Following your passion is important and when you are doing more than one thing at a time in life, maintaining the balance gets tricky. If you think we missed out on any other ways to maintain a side hustle and work on your regular job at the same time, comment and let us know!