The tiresome and tiring thing about gig economy is that the only way to level up is to invent a new level, and past level 4 there are no generic levels, only bespoke levels. I’m currently at my second bespoke level, level 6. Need to find energy burst to construct level 7.
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Need to do an about this.
Levels
1: under the api side hustle
2: contractor: side-only hustle
3: consultant with main hustle brand
4: consultant with in-the-money main hustle brand equity
5: main hustle has bespoke side hustle
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10: qualify for mortgage without W2
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Old version of this argument breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-free-age
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The part that makes me gloomy is that I suspect there’s no way to get to level 10 without building an institution employing a few people at least. I don’t want to get sucked into doing that. That’s Operator level hustling.
