Do you list your side business on your resume?
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Outside of your field...
Main career: engineer
Side job: pilot
Both very real jobs. But most people define a focus for their career and a second career is clearly second.
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Just a hobby...
You are really into driving trains. So as a side job you get certified as a train engineer and drive trains when their regular conductors are sick or just cover off hours or something. I actually know someone doing this.
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Just for the money...
Greeter at Walmart, overnight in a hotel, cashier at a gas station... anything you grab to just earn some extra cash to cover expenses or whatever.
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"Lower Career Position"...
This was me with Dell. My day job / primary was Director level. My side job was senior engineer. Okay, those are both really high, but one is clearly higher. The lower position was the side job because it was both temporary (15 months, though), and was not at the same level as my primary. It was to add money and variety to my "day", and to beef up my resume. It's really clear, in that situation, that even as a full time, on site, W2, senior position, that it wasn't my main job.
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@scottalanmiller said in Do you list your side business on your resume?:
side jobs are either "outside of your field", "lower career position", or "just a hobby", or "just for the money - e.g. job not career."
Assuming this discussion all started in the IT industry, and trying to keep my thoughts applicable to the IT industry, I can say whole heartedly and with great certainty, that around here, most "Side" jobs are absolutely in the same field as the regular job.
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@scottalanmiller said in Do you list your side business on your resume?:
It's really clear, in that situation, that even as a full time, on site, W2, senior position, that it wasn't my main job.
You're different from most.
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@JasGot said in Do you list your side business on your resume?:
@scottalanmiller said in Do you list your side business on your resume?:
It's really clear, in that situation, that even as a full time, on site, W2, senior position, that it wasn't my main job.
You're different from most.
Agreed - and while Scott would call those other high end things 'side jobs' I certainly would not have - not before this conversation.
Now a much lower position 'side job' I might call that..
really - in writing this post, the whole use of the term side is just odd. Normally I'd hear 'my second job is, my third job is... in which case I'd expect things like Scott's list definitely made sense.
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Side job, side hustler, moonlighting...
https://www.definitions.net/definition/side+job
A side job, also informally called a side hustle or side gig, is an additional job that a person takes in addition to their primary job in order to supplement their income. Side jobs may be done out of necessity, when one's income from their main job is insufficient to support them, or simply out of a desire to earn more income. Working a side job can also, informally, be called moonlighting, usually when it is performed after normal working hours. A side job can be a full-time job, part-time job, or freelance job, and a person can hold more than one side job. In the modern day, side jobs have been gaining in popularity in America due to stagnating wage growth that has not kept up with the rising cost of living, with nearly a third of those with side jobs requiring them to stay afloat as of 2019. Additionally, nearly half of all Americans report having a side job, including 43 percent of full-time workers. However, the most common reason workers take on side jobs is to obtain additional disposable income. In the United Kingdom, 60 percent of students and graduates reported having a side job, and 43 percent required it to pay their rent.Millennials are the most likely to have a side job, usually in order to have a financial "safety net", leading to them being considered the "side hustle generation". However, they are also common as a means to pay off student loans, as well as to leverage one's creativity in ways that would normally not be feasible in the typical workplace. When a person's primary job only provides income so that they may pursue their preferred side job, it is typically known as a "day job".
For those looking for a deep common definition.
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People refer to it as "the hustle" these days, but mostly because millennials tend to need multiple jobs to make ends meet. Not because they can't earn as much or more than other generations, but because so many of their "primary" jobs tend to be more hobbies, temporary, or part time. Millennials tend to assemble a career out of multiple gigs, rather than a single one like other generations are used to.
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@scottalanmiller said in Do you list your side business on your resume?:
moonlighting
I've been known to moonlight as someone who drinks professionally.
