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Income Streams: Why You Should Never Have Just One
When you only have one income stream, you make life difficult for yourself. I’ll show you how it affected mine. Don’t make my mistake!
I see many creators perfectly content in their day job, creating content on the side, never making their blog or YouTube channel, or podcast — the things they are genuinely passionate about — anything more than a hobby.
You should never have just one income stream because having only one will imprison you by whoever is paying you that money. You will not be able to take risks and tie your life to your employer. Let me show you how that felt for me a few years ago.
Replacing One Income Stream With Another
In December 2016, the gaming company I worked for got dismantled. We were creating games for clients, and for a time, there were no clients. So, after almost two years of playing games at work for a living, I was laid off.
Back then, one of our clients was a video game company that commissioned us to create a multiplayer game for little kids.
The company I worked for convinced the client to rehire the team that worked on their game. And thus, I had a choice to make. Should I accept a…
