In 2006, Congress established National Entrepreneurship Week. It is celebrated roughly the third week of February. You might think of “entrepreneurship” in terms of new business start-ups with the intention of having them blossom into Wall Street winners. Well, there’s a new kind of entrepreneur rising from the ranks of not just Main Street but that little subdivision well off of Main Street.
Spurred partly by inflation-induced need and partly by just wanting something to do (especially in retirement), America is fast becoming a nation of side hustlers. According to McKinsey and Company, the number of full-time employees operating side businesses has grown from 27% in 2016