One popular fintech app that I’ve never really promoted on this blog is an app called Acorns. It’s what you’d call a micro-investing or micro-savings app. Here’s how it works. You link your credit and debit cards to Acorns. The app then monitors all of your transactions on those cards. Whenever you make a transaction, […]
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July 2020 Side Hustle Report – $3,780.58
Welcome back to another edition of the Financial Panther Side Hustle Report. Today we’ll be taking a look at what I was able to make from the gig economy in July 2020. As a recap, over the past four years, I’ve tracked all of the side hustle income that I’ve made via gig economy and […]
The Difference Between Trading Time For Money And Trading Tasks For Money
When I first started figuring out my side hustle strategy years ago, I found that the gig economy and sharing economy worked best for me. What made it work so well was the flexibility that came with these gigs. I was working a full-time, demanding job at the time, so my ability to side hustle […]
How To Go Car Free – An Analysis Of My Friend’s Car Situation
Recently, a friend of mine asked me what he should do about his current car situation and as we got to talking about it, it occurred to me that our discussion might make a good blog post that could examine whether someone seemingly car-dependent could make the dramatic move to going totally car-free. Here’s where […]
Peak Money App Review – A Free Goal-Based Savings App (And The Best Alternative To Qapital)
Finding a free round-up app took more time, but ultimately, I discovered Peak. I’ve now been using Peak Money for over a year and have been very happy with it.
Reflecting On Six Months Of 2020
2020 is, I think, a year that we can currently divide into two halves. There’s the world before the pandemic – when we were all (perhaps naively) moving through the world without much care. And then there’s the world after the pandemic, with a world that is largely unrecognizable to the one we knew just […]
June 2020 Side Hustle Report – $3,209.32
With June recently in the books, it’s time to take a look back at what I was able to make side hustling over the past month. As regular readers know, each month I document exactly what I was able to make from side hustling using gig economy apps. My goal with these posts is to […]
The Ultimate List Of Gig Economy Apps
A comprehensive list of gig economy apps, with strategies and thoughts on each. This is the ultimate list if you are looking to learn more about the gig economy.
The Importance Of Having Backup Plans – Taking A Look At My Plan B and Plan C
Last year, after five years of working as a lawyer, I finally pulled the trigger and quit my job to try my hand at self-employment. It’s a decision that had been coming for a while but that was finally put down onto paper after I had a particularly rough day at work back in 2018. […]
May 2020 Side Hustle Report – $1,939.03
Hello everyone and welcome back to another Financial Panther side hustle report. In today’s post, we’ll be taking a look at what I was able to earn from side hustling in the gig economy in May of 2020. As was the case in March and April, many of my side hustles continue to be dramatically […]
