My name is Amy – I am a super busy mum of 3. I’m a Chartered Accountant (currently on what is absolutely definitely 100% maybe my last maternity leave) working Big 4 audit (IYKYK). Let’s get this straight off the bat – I don’t hate my job – I’d just rather not go! I guess that will sound pretty familiar to a lot of you. So this being the case, I have set myself a challenge to side hustle my way to being mortgage free. In all honesty, I don’t really care how i make this money. As soon as I am mortgage free I will be significantly cutting my hours or moving away from the corporate slog and I cannot wait. Maternity leave does that to you – i might be drowning in poo and spit up, but I am not at the office and I’m getting paid (sort of). That’s the goal – time freedom to do and go as I please. When I’m working full time and spending the rest of my time with the kids it’s bloody hard to even squeeze in a trip to Home Bargains for the latest Mrs Hinch range to clean the kitchen with!
The Plan
I have been researching and going back and forward on the best way to do this for a couple of months now. Over and over again. My Google search history is essentially just variations of ‘top side hustles 2025’ and ‘how to make money online’. But I am very slowly pulling together a plan and I’d love for you to come with me.
There are a few things I’m going to try and through my swanky new TikTok and Instagram, as well as this blog, I’ll keep you up to date on how these are going. I’m going to iterate that while I do consider myself to have a half decent brain in my head – I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing here. I am a complete beginner at this. However I’m not fooled by the ‘make a colouring book on Canva and make £20k’ reels 🙄. I also have a developing passion for personal finance. I may be an accountant but no one ever really teaches you how to look after your own money! I think this will form part of my journey too and having done some research I am going to try :
- Digital Marketing
- Affiliate Marketing
- Training AI
- Surveys
- Website Testing
- Vinted (Ok this I am NOT a beginner at and it’s not so much a side hustle as me cleaning out my bomb site of a house!)
- Cash back
- Transcription
- Random jobs on Fiverr and Upwork
- Instagram and TikTok
- Matched betting
I’m sure it’ll go a bit like this:
There’s so much to it and so much that I want to tell you all about it but I’ll leave that for entry no 2!
For now, if you have any hints and tips on any of the above or have any questions for me, please drop me a follow and leave them in the comments!
Amy x
PS Please excuse the absolute state of this website, I have absolutely no clue what I am doing! Learning curve ‘n’ all…