Chapter 9

Keeping Track for You and Everyone Else

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Keeping your important legal information handy

Bullet Tracking your side-hustle activity

Bullet Checking your side hustle’s report card

Bullet Pulling up old side-hustle records when you need them

Between your side hustle and your day job, you’re running fast and furious. Time is scarce, and you’re juggling a lot of balls on a daily basis. Just like a crowded hospital emergency room where the staff needs to quickly examine and then prioritize a flood of patients — a process called triage — your mind is looking at everything that you have on your plate and yelling, “Triage!”

So, do you really want to add to your to-do list with a bunch of tedious record-keeping tasks? Well, you may not want to, but you have to!

Remember It doesn’t matter if your side hustle is doing ridesharing for Uber or Lyft or doing delivery service gigs, or if you’re recording and then trying to monetize a whole bunch of videos, or if you’ve created a “mini-business” like an ...

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