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Original Author: Brain|MOOC Lecturer
When it comes to side jobs, most people are very utilitarian and think that "side jobs" are about making money. Talking about "side business" means talking about what channels and ways to make money, and the "faster" the better, the more the better. To be honest, people who have done a good job in sideline business and become their main business are very self-disciplined and have a very clear direction. Establishing correct values is very important for taking a good sideline business.
And everyone should understand this truth: doing a side job is not just about making money, it is actually a long-term accumulation process, and making money is just a matter of course. Slow down the pace, think while doing it, and make long-term planning is the correct approach. Doing a long-term side job is a consideration of a person's comprehensive ability, such as: operational ability, learning ability, reflection ability, ability to accept new things, etc. Establish a correct understanding as early as possible, and comprehensively improve yourself through side jobs, so that you can increase your strength and open up a smoother career development path.
Let’s first take a look at the real benefits that side hustles can bring:
At present, there are several mainstream sideline businesses in the Internet industry:
Direct ability improvement brought about by engaging in sideline business:
So programmers want to start their own sideline business, how to make a breakthrough?
Xiao Mu used an article by Brain, a star lecturer on MOOC.com, to borrow flowers to present Buddha, hoping to give you some inspiration.
Brian: Big factory background, full-stack development background, multi-field practical operation and project experience, star lecturer of MOOC.com, 9 years of sideline business + practical experience in entrepreneurial diversification, million-level + content creator. Founded his own independent studio, love to share technology
The practice of sideline business should be learned from two directions: time management & cognitive breakthrough.
time management
Although this is an old-fashioned topic, very few people do it well.
What is the reason? The main reason is: lack of mobility and habits, people's inertia is too strong, rationality will not be able to control one's body.
How to improve your mobility
- Act in solidarity, encourage and supervise each other
- Spend money to restrain yourself and find someone to supervise;
- Self-discipline, say goodbye to mobile phones, and use tomato learning method (flexible combination of 20+20 or 40+20);
- Self-discipline + meditation + fitness: the latter two are the most commonly used methods to improve concentration, and I will share with you later.
After improving the mobility, the next step is to manage the learning time, and act according to the plan:
Understand that time is limited
This is easy to understand. The daily working hours and resting hours are fixed so that you can earn money while sleeping. The body is the capital of all activities. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce staying up late as much as possible, reduce overdrawing your body, and reduce the investment in work content that simply uses time for money.
If you understand this, you will know why you can't get rich by working as a worker to make money. Because the service targets of migrant workers are limited, it is impossible for one person to work several jobs at the same time. The fewer people you serve, the less money you will make~
Usually, don't waste time. Everyone's life has a rough length, so cherish the present, cherish the people in front of you, and live in the present.
time can be copied
Isn't it absurd to hear that time can be copied? The copying of time here mainly refers to the use of modern science and technology to preserve text, sound, pictures, and videos, and to benefit more people by copying these contents. With the development of Internet technology at any time, people's way of living and pastime has become watching mobile phones. Most of the content on mobile phones is mainly short videos. The cost of accessing video and copying of digital type goods is almost zero. Therefore, doing a good job of duplicating time can allow more people to have access to better content. For example: when a teacher walks from the podium to the camera, his voice and picture, his knowledge will be accepted by more people. And a good teacher will affect the life of a classmate.
In the same way, if we take advantage of the feature that time can be copied, we may move many of the things we are currently engaged in to the Internet, and let more people see and use them through text, sound, pictures, and videos, so that we can also benefit from it. Interests.
buy other people's time
Buying time is actually hiring people to do things, so that you can focus your energy on the core things and the most valuable things, so that you can get twice the result with half the effort. All things that make money must be scaled up to have a geometric effect. Many people earn money, afraid that someone will take away their business, or they don’t trust the person they hire, so they do everything by themselves, so they return to the concept of "time has a length" and their service objects are limited. , there will be an upper limit on the size.
Identify your own track, see the possible development trend in the next few years, and find more people to join your team. From 0 to 1, it is actually not as difficult as everyone imagines. Starting a business starts with registering a company. It is possible that many small partners have already started their own businesses and found it very difficult to recruit people. Yes, "a thousand dollars can't buy an inch of time". Now HR recruiting is very difficult, not to mention finding a suitable person. The energy required for this will account for 2-30% of the company, and even more in the early stage.
Diversification benefits over time
Do you listen to music and watch videos while riding the subway? Do you watch small videos while going to the toilet? Would you check Weibo and read Zhihu Nuggets while eating? …these are all time diversification benefits, although some may not sound so “healthy” (should be more serious when eating).
Diversified income is a way for us to split the same time so that multiple things can run in parallel. In human terms, it means: one mind and two tasks. Wow, are you a bit anti-human? The teachers have taught us not to use one mind at two times since we were young. Why do you recommend that everyone do two things at once? Because, a lot of our usual fragmented time can actually be used, such as: going to the toilet to post idle fish orders, taking 10 stops on the bus and subway to watch videos that interest you (learning), listening to them while sleeping or running English, music, English, etc.
cognitive breakthrough
sell time
Everyone can earn a little money from a side job, but you have no motivation, no hands-on, just an idea. In fact, there are many side jobs with low entry barriers, such as being a rider, likes, and cutting orders, etc. The money is really fast, but some people think it is disdainful to make such a small amount of money. This type of feature is that it is not big, it cannot form a scale, and its income is unstable.
The main feature of this kind of sideline business is the most versatile and easy-to-sell resource in the world-time. Everyone's time is limited, so decide your upper limit.
So independent individuals can't make a lot of money? Of course, there are, for example, some top think tanks in some industries, people who enjoy resources and super ability to integrate resources, their service objects may be only a very small number of people, but these very few people provide them with infinite wealth, because, The service they provide is excellent and saves these rich people a lot of time.
selling ability
Compared with simply selling time, there is another dimension, which is to turn selling time into selling ability.
Polish your core competitiveness and have a certain psychological endurance, because when exchanging time for money becomes exchanging ability for money, the world will "whip" you 360 degrees without dead ends. However, with every blow, the ability will be improved again and again.
sell resources
Going one step further than selling capabilities is selling resources, being an integrator and manager of resources.
A good entrepreneur and entrepreneur must have the sharp vision, action, concentration and perseverance to discover market resources and consumers, in order to be successful.
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