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3 Ways to Take Full Advantage of Your Nine-to-Five (to benefit your side-hustle)

Declan Wilson
5 min readNov 7, 2016

I’m often asked how do I do it. How do I manage to work a full-time job, spend time with my wife and son, advise for Praxis, sleep, eat, and still manage to work on my side-hustle?

Out of the six things mentioned above, five of them I actually enjoy doing. Unfortunately, the one thing I don’t enjoy doing pays the bills (for now).

The full-time job. The 9-to-5. The cube farm.

However you define it, there is a 70% chance you are in the same boat as me. Having a full-time job is a big time-sucker that limits our ability to invest our time and attention into our side-hustles.

But it doesn't have to be this way.

There are ways to take full advantage of your job to benefit your side-hustles, personal projects, or passions without it being a hinderance.

Actually, to answer the original question at the beginning of this post, I am able to grow my side-hustle because I have a full-time job. For me, my full-time office job is my advantage.

Here’s why:

1.) The Obvious: Less…

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Declan Wilson
Declan Wilson

Written by Declan Wilson

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