Day 1803: 5 Minute Freewrite: Thursday - Prompt: side hustle

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Prompt: side hustle

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I think this is really important for everyone to have with the way things are going in the world right now, you can't just rely on one income especially for a man.

The bills keep increasing everyday for a man, for a lady too, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that and for me writing is like is side hustle and the profit I make as helped me lot of time when I'm totally out of funds.

Been using writing as my side hustle since 2017. It was this side hustle that paid for my first lunch date. Even if your income is great you still need to have a side hustle

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I agree 👍. Desperate times call for desperate measures!

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You are right ma'am.... And any wealth person on earth as more than one source of income

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Yes, we have had many jobs and stayed our own bosses.

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That's the best thing to do, tour side can later be something serious when you decide to be your own full time boss

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thank you @dapomolaaaa I have been my own boss since 1981.

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Wow, I just found a new role model

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Glad to be your role model, now I can add that to my list, hehehehe. You got me to thinking about the jobs that I have done to stay self-employed. When my kids were small, I babysat for others, I had 9 kids that I watched. I dug wild clams and sold them, I fished, when fishing was bad in the summer I picked palmetto berries, I grew plants and grew clams from the size of beach sand to the size of tennis balls, and I cleaned houses. I have managed to stay my own boss and you can do it, too.

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Wow, this is much.... For a woman, this is amazing.... Currently working on my fish farm..not much flexibility with the time here and opportunities are few but still not going to give up and definitely work things out with God help

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Anything that you try to do being self-employed takes a lot of time and work. It would be nice to own a fish farm but here in Florida, there are a lot of restrictions. When we grew clams, we had raceways that we grew them in, I always wondered if they would have worked for growing fish. Have you thought of growing blue crabs? They do well in freshwater ponds if that is what you have and they are worth good money.

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Haven't done crabs at all, I'm into catfish and it is good business too.. Not sure crabs will sell in Nigeria

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I think you are right about that, they are rich people's food. The only reason we eat them is that we can catch our own. Good luck with your catfish, they are my husband's favorite, I do not care for freshwater fish. We have a big lake where we go to catch them, I do love to do that, and we freeze them for him to eat. I have saltwater fish for me.

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Wow, that's cool then....i eat mostly frozen fish even the one I rare I don't eat

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Thank you for the prompt. Here is the result of my 5-minute #freewrite.

It’s been happening for a while now; he wakes up before dawn and rushes to the toilet with diarrhea. Then he sits for a few minutes and mindlessly scrolls Facebook on his phone without looking at the pictures. He sobs quietly, and tears trickle down his cheeks. He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. He flushes the toilet, washes his hands, and splashes water on his face washing the tears away.

He wonders how much longer he can do this. Is this really what life is about? He looks out the window; the sun is starting to rise, and it looks like it will be a nice day. But it doesn’t matter; he’ll spend the next nine hours confined to a stuffy room, not his own, doing mind-numbing pointless tasks because, for some unknown reason, in this reality, this is what people are expected to do all day.

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Estoy 😎 tan feliz hoy 💞
Que escribiré un poema.
Tengo frío 😃 y no puedo salir pero el chocolate caliente me motiva.
Y clara mis ideas
Ojalá escriba una historia que impresiones al público y pueda volver a llenar mi billetera.

Que un día ☕🌞 se guarde en libro cada verso, cada línea que escribo con el corazón o veces lágrimas .

Para que así no solo sea conocido por blogueros y pueda ser reconocida.

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