RE: Prologue to my "Side Hustling" series - The Money Stool
Can there be options? Instead of ruthless maybe relentless, tireless, or persistent? Or do those fall under hardworking?
I agree you need at least two of those legs though. But I would argue "smart" isn't easily defined as you don't need to be smart with a high IQ, you just need to know what you need to know and know it well. I'd be rubbish in anything having to do with sports. There are plenty of smarter sports people than I. And by plenty, I mean tens of millions at least.
However I could likely crush them in a game of science trivia or any task needing an understanding of physics.
My only advice though, would be to eliminate the feeling you need to do "hardwork". Find something you enjoy so you don't mind doing it. Then it feels less like work.
That's why I left corporate life to be a writer. Yes writing is work, marketing my services is work, but it feels much less so than sitting in meetings and stressing about completing impossible tasks assigned by project managers who have no idea what they are asking you to do (no, I'm not still bitter about those years. Why would you think that?).
Brighter days are ahead if you just keep moving in that direction.
P.S. I'll have to check your cryptokitties!
It's definitely a working theory for the time being, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if someone found more legs! That being said, I'd say the 3 you proposed all fall under hardworking.
Honestly I didn't like that I used smart as one of the legs, but I really couldn't think of a easier way to succinctly describe what I wanted. I mean I guess technically having a naturally high IQ could fall under the lucky umbrella. Maybe the word expertise would work? That would likely require hard work though...
I love what you have to say about corporate life. I have never been brave enough to try and become a freelancer though. I have some valuable skills, but it's not easy to leave my 95k a year comfy job to try and branch out on my own. Bills suck :(
Thanks for your insightful comment! I will have to read some of your posts when I have the time.
I was making $129200/yr when I left corporate life. I've not come close to that since I became a freelancer but know people who have and do regularly. For me I was dying, probably literally as I was so sick when I left work, and I wouldn't go back ever. I look forward to making that kind of money and more someday but being able to be home with my family is something I won't trade for it.
If my job had been comfy I might have stayed though, but it was a nightmare. Good luck to you here. Perhaps this will help with those sucky bills and you can be free!
Wow! Yes I agree that the freedom would be worth far more than the money for me as well. I mean that it's cozy in the sense that it pays the bills easily and definitively. If I can ever make even half of that working from home, I believe I would probably go for it. I'm a long way from there, considering I'm only making about 10 cents a post haha