1st Edition
Keep Your Day Job Leverage Your Side Hustle To Grow Your Corporate Career, Regardless Of What HR Says You Can Do
As millennials and Gen Z grow their influence in the workplace, side hustling and overemployment are emerging from the dark corners of the corporate world—but many companies still resist this trend.
How can employees leverage the shifting power dynamic to build their own empires? Build now and ask forgiveness later: this book shows you how. Rich with insights from personal experience and doctoral research, this is the story of more than a decade of side hustling alongside successes, and failures, in a career in corporate America. But more importantly, it is a roadmap on how to successfully incorporate a side hustle into your life in a way that supports your day job too. Not everyone starts a side hustle to eventually quit their day job, and many individuals enjoy and take pride in the dual incomes they can earn this way. This book centers and prioritizes this path.
No matter their industry, this book will resonate with readers who have been burned by their side hustle (or fear that they might be), as well as HR professionals who want to support change in corporate America and leaders who value and prioritize innovation to impact their workforce for the better.
Before You Read. Acknowledgments. Definitions to Norm On. Part I - Foundational Knowledge. Chapter 1: What Exactly Is a Modern-Day Side Hustle? Chapter 2: How Does Corporate America Restrict Side Work, and Is It Fair? Chapter 3: Protecting Your Intellectual Property in and out of Work. Chapter 4: What Is Overemployment, and Is It Worth the Risk? Part II - Navigating the Workplace. Chapter 5: Selling Your Side Hustle as an Advantage at Work. Chapter 6: Leveraging Your Side Hustle to Build a Career. Chapter 7: HR Policies and Their Impact on Your Side Hustle. Chapter 8: Noncompetes as Barriers to Mobility. Part III - Why Your Side Hustle Matters. Chapter 9: The Democratization of Side Hustle Opportunities. Chapter 10: Side Hustles as a Student Loan Debt Solution. Chapter 11: The Influence of COVID-19. Chapter 12: Thought Leadership and Social Media Influence as Financial Opportunities. Part IV - Building Your Own Side Hustle. Chapter 13: Identifying the Right Opportunity. Chapter 14: Early Steps to Getting Started. Continuing Education. About the Author. Love This Book? Discussion Guide.
Biography
Dannie Lynn Fountain is a multipassionate human—by day, she’s a disability accommodations program manager at Google and by night she supports clients and brands with HR-focused diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies. She is also the founder of the #SideHustleGal movement and the “original” Side Hustle Gal. Dannie Lynn has been interviewed or quoted in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Bustle, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Cosmopolitan, Digiday, The Everygirl, Girlboss, and more.
