From FT employment to a $6,500/mo “full-time side-hustle” within 6 months

I don't get the side hustle vibe. If you keep your F/T job and do a side hustle you love, and would do for free, but now you get paid, that's a side hustle. If you simply trade one for the other, you.. changed jobs.

Whenever people talk about side hustles they seem to work their asses off for a little more profit and way less time.

But there is also the model where you build things that generate money long term with minimal time effort after building. However nobody is going to tell these stories :)