Chapter 11

Avoiding Conflicts with Your Day Job

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Running into trouble with your full-time employer

Bullet Knowing and following your company’s list of approved outside activities

Bullet Keeping your employer’s resources off limits

Bullet Fighting the good fight

Congratulations! You did it! World’s best cup of coffee!

Wait: That’s the movie Elf. How about this instead:

Congratulations! You did it! Big-time side-hustle success!

You’re making money. You have satisfied customers. You just finished your plans for the next stage of whatever your side hustle happens to be. Life is good!

How would you like the company where you work full-time to suddenly cause your entire side-hustle universe to come crashing down? To prevent you from continuing with your on-the-side activities? To force you to write them a check — maybe a very large check — and turn over some or even all of the money that you’ve made thus far from your side hustle to them?

What’s that? You really wouldn’t like all that to happen? Well, I don’t blame you — nobody would!

That’s why you need to be very, very careful to keep what ...

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