Man Trades Time For Money Then Tries To Retire Before Age 30, Shockingly

KEY POINTS

•Cody Berman developed a four-type side hustle framework after trying over 30 gigs starting in 2018.
•He favors scalable income streams like digital products and real estate over quickly earned, time-traded cash.
•In addition to hustling, he rents out unused assets and advises others to jump on platforms like TaskRabbit.

Cody Berman, a man who thinks 'side hustles' are a contact sport, tried over 30 gigs before settling on a four-type framework in 2018. He once made $15 an hour trading his time for money, exemplified by tasks like editing podcasts nobody asked for or driving Uber like millions of other aspiring millionaires. Simultaneously, he chased passive gold mines through digital products, blogs, podcasts (TheFishOW.com, in case you’re wondering), and real estate adventures, because who doesn’t want a property collecting rent while Netflix judges your life choices? He’s author of 'Retire by 30' and claims his greatest success is basically ‘buying things that pay you forever.’ Meanwhile, Cody’s wife Lauren probably wonders why they’re still calculating which bounce house will pay off faster in the sharing economy. His résumé includes spreading the gospel on turning old assets into cash, whether that’s a rusty truck he’s kept since forever or some random pool someone forgot was rentable. All this hustle culminates in advice to 'just start on TaskRabbit,' apparently in case you want to rent out your spare room, trampoline, or sanity next week.