Planning on Moonlighting? Where to Find Well-Paying Side Gigs
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Though moonlighting is not new, the trend of side hustles has become widespread in the past two years.
The work-from-home phase following the outbreak of covid gave people more time at hand.
The demand for freelance work has shot up in recent year...
A startup client of the digital marketing outfit he worked for had offered him a side hustle.
“Our company’s services were too costly, so they wanted me to work for them independently,” says the 32-year-old Bengaluru-based digital marketing professional.
Having worked on the project for almost a year, Monga was familiar with the startup’s requirements as also the key people running the show.
“They promised me complete secrecy,” he says. And a fat sum of Rs.30,000 in cash–which was more than 20% Monga’s regular salary.
Like Monga, lakhs of salaried workers have bitten into the forbidden fruit called moonlighting.
Though moonlighting is not new, the trend of side hustles has become widespread in the past two years.