--- title: 'How to Start a Part-Time Business (Don''t Quit Your Job)' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=-TJD7pRNKFg' video_id: '-TJD7pRNKFg' date: 2026-07-24 duration_sec: 1123 channel: 'Gabriel Ferreira' --- # How to Start a Part-Time Business (Don't Quit Your Job) > Source: [How to Start a Part-Time Business (Don't Quit Your Job)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-TJD7pRNKFg) ## Summary This video provides a step-by-step guide to starting a part-time business without quitting your main job. It covers time management, choosing the right business model, and avoiding common pitfalls, emphasizing that anyone can build a side income with patience and small steps. ### Key Points - **Don't Quit Your Day Job** [01:10] — Only two types of people can afford to quit: those with no expenses (living with parents) and those with a financial cushion. For most, keeping the main job provides stability and reduces stress while building the business. - **How to Find Time** [02:42] — Use a weekly time audit (based on Laura Vanderkam's TED Talk) to identify free hours. Example: after accounting for sleep, work, meals, commute, and chores, 31 free hours remain per week. Dedicate a portion (e.g., 13.5 hours) to the business. - **Choose a Business You Enjoy** [10:09] — Select a business that aligns with your interests and skills to avoid burnout. The goal is to add value by solving a problem. Low-risk options include digital services (e.g., paid ads, website creation) rather than physical products. - **Amplify Your Skill Framework** [13:29] — Start with a skill you already have and offer it as a service. You can charge more for services you do for the client (e.g., cutting hair) versus DIY products (e.g., online courses). Repeat purchases are more likely with client-involved services. - **How to Sell and Avoid Bankruptcy** [15:52] — Start by offering to your contacts for feedback and testimonials. Use social media to showcase your work. Avoid using emergency funds; test your offer before investing. Don't quit until your side income is consistent and covers your expenses. ### Conclusion Starting a part-time business is achievable by managing time effectively, choosing a skill-based service, and scaling gradually without quitting your main job. Consistency and patience are key to building a sustainable side income. ## Transcript European countries where people are most unhappy with their jobs. And I do normal, man. I don't think it's normal that we have to wake up every day without wanting to spend most of our lives in a place where we're receiving no less than we deserve. So, what if it were possible for us to start working on you enjoy, something that gives you money every month, all without you having to main job? This is possible. That's how I started. And the truth is, anyone can do this. Even if it seems like you don't have enough time or comfortable because in the next few minutes we're going to go through five steps—just help you start building your part-time business right now. So, hello, here, I'm studying ways to make money online, documenting million and being recognized by Forbes as one of the 30 under 30, applying everything channel and in my own projects. I also want to make it clear that I am not a here is simply my opinion. And by the way supporting this video, but we'll talk more about them later. So, step more about them later. So, step number one, I'm going to say goodbye. No, this is starting a business. Quitting our main job can literally therefore two types of people who can afford this luxury. People who do not have , such as income, food, etc. In other words, people who live at home with their parents, for example, or people who have a good few thousand euros so they can quit their job and focus on creating their full-time business. Most all right. If that's the case, then sticking with your main job, which is what you should be doing now, will be your business without stress or anxiety, and it will make the whole process healthier still have income from your main job. OK? So, view your work as if it were your own investor. So, what's business, and if all goes well, we'll receive that money with it; we'll get there . And then in the future, if that money is sufficient and recurring, and think about possibly leaving your main job or not, but at least you want. So, before we go figure out how we're going to find time for all of this within a seemingly chaotic day—which is probably what you're already grasp these ideas. First, it's possible to start a business with little or no money invested. Secondly, there's no perfect time to start; start is now. Third, building a business is a game of patience and also of small steps. And this is what we're going to be learning to create. I don't think you'll start today and tomorrow you'll have a company with an office and employees. It . OK, I won't say goodbye. But where am I going to find the time for that? which So here we arrive at our second step: how to find time. Yes we look at our free time, it seems so persistent. Obviously, it's impossible create more hours in the day, but our time is a matter of priorities. This method I'm going to teach you is based on a TED Talk by Laura Vercam, I hope I and I think is also widely used by these productivity people. So, we all have the same 168 hours per week, but none of us use those hours in the same way. The truth is, these always say is, if we don't organize our week and those hours, the disorganize us. And we don't want that. I've talked about this in another video, but every Sunday I plan my next week, knowing that but at least I have a clear direction, a plan. And how can you do this? filling in the week in order of priority. Listen up, the plan I'm about to give you is super simplified, but it's just to give you an idea of ​​how we're going to time, obviously, and I'll even do this with you all here , OK? So, to be visual, let's assume we all sleep 8 hours a day. Let's go to sleep and let's also assume that we all work from 9 to 5 and in between we all work from 9 to 5 and in between we still have our here. Here, one plus two means that's when we 'll be eating, therefore having lunch. OK, lunch and we'll have dinner here from 8 to 9. Let's put dinner here too, it's green. during the week, all we have here is to sleep, work, have lunch, and have dinner. that I initially wanted to include. After all this, we finally finish here with our overnight stay, our work, and lunch and dinner. But this is super realistic. There are still many things missing here . And we've already spent 91 out of 168 teleport to work anymore. So we're going to put it somewhere, I don't know where you live, let's say it 's one hour to go and one hour to come back from work. OK? Here you can choose from closing things up, going time, both going and coming back. Therefore, let's assume and transport. And it's the same thing here, transportation. And we're going to repeat this all week long. Here, we still need to prepare dinner and everything us to schedule our dinner for 8:30 every day and set aside this time slot so we can, you know, get around to taking care of the house, having someone make dinner, and everything else. So, let's assign household chores. Obviously, once again , this is different for everyone; it's just an example. And that. Consider this with that in mind; this is just one example. If this is our week, we have this time left to do things for ourselves. So, here from 9:30 until midnight. Therefore, I'm going to put here a free period, where we can literally choose what we want to do in this example. Once again, OK? So, this is for you, you do this exercise in your own way So, here our purple color is the time we have to do things, whether it's health, business, leisure, whatever , it's right there. And I'm going to take this weekend off in a more relaxed way, not as demanding as these workdays. So, one second. Let's assume we have 8 hours to sleep, that's fine. We eat out less because, since it's the weekend, lunch takes longer, and the same goes for dinner, because we Portuguese are a people who like to linger at the table. So, let's put exactly that here. Let's put some right? Half an hour for breakfast is enough . And we'll put some snacks here too. And families leave a lot of tidying up hours here, both on Saturday and Sunday. And I'll fill the rest with can choose what we want to do. So if this were our plan, if this were our life, we would have 31 free hours per week, Then you'll do this for yourself and you'll be able to realistically see what your free time is. This equates to roughly 20% of your week being free, give or take. Therefore, whatever you want, once again following this model. How is this useful to me? Looking at this free time, we have to set priorities, working. You're not going to use all this free time just for that. You also have to live, you also have to have fun. So we're going to start taking advantage of these free periods and see when I can work on also enjoy life a little. OK? So maybe, instead of being on TV or Netflix or something from 9:30 to midnight, I could maybe spend half an hour watching TV and the other half, for example, investing in work. On the whole weekend resting, perhaps I can try to improve this aspect goal. I can take some of these free periods to work, for for instance, do household chores, and the rest of the free time my business. I can do it. So, I'm going to do that exercise that you would also do, which is where I know I manage to stick to my plan of dedicating this time to the business practically every day. Because if you super unpredictable, it can change things, it can make things difficult, it's possible. And look there with you for sure, everything's fine. But let's try to choose probability than I managed to, that I'll be able to accomplish things. OK, here that we have this hour to watch our series, our movie, whatever we want. I put this hour and a half here part-time business, to develop things. And on the weekend I took this part of the morning before lunch and put a little bit here before dinner as well so we could take some time for this. OK? This would total 13:30, for my business. Whether this is a lot or a little, I don't know. All I know is that for someone who would give zero or who thought there would n't be enough time for anything, this is already good. And your final result could be 20 hours, it could be 5 hours, it could be 30 hours, it could be any possible time. What matters is that you can start looking at things and realize that I actually have a certain priority in life, and I'm that priority. And to wrap up this part, maybe today you'll realize you can dedicate more time, or even give more. You, if you remain replace, for example, two episodes of your favorite series with one, or that TikTok, at that specific time, you can go to work to improve your life. because it might not be. And remember, you can always learn more with the same amount of time. Things like learning the ENEM exam while doing other tasks. I, for example, use Audi, which is a platform I have audiobooks. I do this while driving, while walking. 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So far, it's all more or less the same trend. I can resell hair and beard products, Since I know the area well and have clients who go there, I can still try to teach others how to cut hair, and other people pay me to do do, I can try to revisit it in various ways and try to make money have, therefore, with something that I know how to do well. With that in mind, what is something you could be used to create a solution for someone else? This is the first question you're going to ask. If you can get a digital job, even better, because isn't mandatory. Please note that we have several ways to perform the service here. You can sell services that you provide to the client, OK? Therefore, it is a to clients or services where the client does it themselves, which is also known as DIY. Examples, jobs where we do the work for the client. If you know how to do paid ads, those ads that appear online, there's someone who can manage that for you. So you do it for the client. If you create a website, for starting point is the same; you're the one who's going to do it for the client. The same goes for the do the work for the client. So, you're the one who's going to get your hair cut. Then we have where you participate in the work together with the client. Here we have, for example, coaching, mentoring, or an easy-to-understand example, a personal organize everything, are there with you, and you implement the workout. Finally, we have online course, for example, without supervision, is a DIY project. You learn, ask you what it is or to follow you. You have to implement things yourself. assemble yourself, like for example the IKEA furniture or some other things, some legs that I have back here and so on. Or, for example, a book, you buy it and read it can charge the most are those you do for the client, or just below those you do with the client. It repeat purchases in case of satisfaction, because you can control, or at least help, the customer get from point A to point B, whatever that may be, with your support. It is fine? But here's a problem that arises as soon as you start working on this process, which is: how do I sell it now? In the book One Million Dollar Weekend, there's a part that says: "Start with your contacts. The probability of you having receive one of your products, a service from you, or who knows someone who even wants it is very If you get three or four people like that and each one gives you, for example, feedback for improvement and a testimonial, you have a basis to continue to sell to. Here, social media will be your friend, man, showcase your example, am more likely to buy a product from someone I've seen online than from a stranger. But whatever you do, you have to pay attention to what you can literally destroy this whole process. And to say this, let's get into How not to go bankrupt? Here, it's not just your business that matters, but you yourself can also go bankrupt. That's why it's important to do this part well. I consider that you It will be much easier if this secondary income stream that teaching you in this video, has low initial risk. In other words, don't use critical savings to create this business, don't use emergency funds, and necessary, because for many things you don't need money initially. So, how can you start without paying for things? First, you'll have to test your offer beforehand. Beforehand, you're buying everything, you're business, and then only when trying to close the first sales do you realize that interested. If you can test these things before buying them, initial investment money, perfect. And then another very important question: when quit, we already talked about this at the beginning of the video, but if you know how much your business needs to generate for you to be comfortable. And above all, don't quit until you've received your pay. This value needs to be one month you receive something, things go well, and the next month everything is going wrong again. So it has to be consistent. Otherwise, everything can go doing everything alone as quickly as possible, in a healthy way. As soon as automating things that can be automated, create almost like checklists, so you can take a little bit of and above all you'll have to pay people to give back their time, want to make is wanting to do everything alone. I went through this, mind you, and it own work, to the point where I could only work because I was the only person there to make things happen. So, an excellent investment. But okay, could give you a set of tools that you can use today to faster, and even a little more fun? If this interests you, click on this video here where I'll give you 12 apps that help me earn more sure it will make a difference. And as always, thanks for watching.