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最好的Employees Have Side Hustles -- Here's WhyHow does an entrepreneur get started? By busting out of someone else's box.

ByJason Feifer

This story appears in theJanuary 2019issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

Nigel Parry

People often tell me how theirentrepreneurshipjourney began. And it regularly starts like this: "I was working at [insert big company here], and they disapproved of my side hustle, so I quit." Then the person's side hustle became a full hustle, and now they're more satisfied (and maybe even making more money) than they ever were before. I heard this just last night, in fact, before writing this column. A woman told me about working at a big bank and leaving when hersuperiorsgave her a hard time about a financial literacy program she'd started on the side.

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