Decide whether to grow my side hustle or quit my job
A clear-eyed check of income, runway, and risk to decide whether to stay part-time, scale up, or go full-time.
The prompt
Help me decide what to do next with my side hustle: keep it small, grow it alongside my job, or leave my job to go full-time.
Side hustle revenue, last 6 months: [MONTHLY FIGURES]
Side hustle costs and hours per month: [DETAILS]
Where customers come from: [repeat, referral, one big client, platform]
My salary and benefits: [take-home pay, health insurance, retirement match]
Essential monthly expenses: [AMOUNT]
Savings I could live on: [AMOUNT]
Dependents and other income in the household: [DETAILS]
What I want from this: [freedom, money, purpose, a real company]
Previous step (optional): [PASTE my weekly routine and demand-test results, so the decision reflects real hours and real buyers]
Do this:
1. Calculate my runway in months if I quit today, and the monthly revenue needed to replace my take-home pay plus the benefits I'd have to buy myself and self-employment taxes. Show the math and mark any estimate as [CONFIRM].
2. Assess revenue quality: how much depends on one client or platform, how predictable it is, and the trend.
3. Lay out the three options side by side: upside, risk, and what I'd need to be true.
4. Recommend one path, with clear trigger points (e.g. "quit when revenue has exceeded $X for 3 months and you have 6 months saved").
5. List what to do in the next 90 days under the recommended path.
Output: a summary table, the recommendation, and the 90-day list. This is general information, not financial advice; check tax and benefits figures with a qualified professional.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- MONTHLY FIGURES
- DETAILS
- repeat, referral, one big client, platform
- take-home pay, health insurance, retirement match
- AMOUNT
- freedom, money, purpose, a real company
- CONFIRM
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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