A serial side hustler with 10 income streams shares her most lucrative venture
Corporate lawyer Lucy Zheng shares her experience managing ten diverse income streams, including content creation and real estate. She advises aspiring side hustlers to begin with low-barrier ventures like user-generated content.
Why it matters
The 'side hustle' economy continues to grow as individuals seek financial diversification outside of traditional employment.
Lucy Zheng and her husband have built a household with 10 income streams. Lucy Zheng Lucy Zheng has 10 income streams, including a W-2 job, content creation, and rental properties. Her content business is now her most lucrative income stream, matching her legal salary. Her advice for aspiring side hustlers: Start with user-generated content. Lucy Zheng has a full-time job as a senior corporate counsel at a tech company, but it's only one piece of her family's income. The San Francisco mother of three's household has 10 income streams, including her W-2 pay, her husband's business, out-of-state rental properties, options trading, dividend and interest income, and five revenue channels tied to her social-media business . Zheng began looking for ways to earn outside her day job shortly after law school, when a low-paying role at a small firm left her struggling to cover student-loan payments and bills.
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