These 3 Americans Turned to Side Hustles After Being Laid Off. Now They’re All Making Between $200,000 and $3 Million a Year: ‘Sweet, Sweet Irony.’

In 2023, more than than 305,000 U.S. workers lost their jobs during a surge of mass layoffs that impacted the tech industry and beyond, CNBC Make It reported.

Meta employee Scott Goodfriend was one of those people. After he was laid off from his “dream job” as an augmented reality producer at the tech giant, he faced an important decision: Go work for another company or build a business of his own.

Related: ‘Hustling Every Day’: These Friends Started a Side Hustle With $2,500 Each — It ‘Snowballed’ to Over $500,000 and Became a Multimillion-Dollar Brand

Goodfriend chose the latter. The entrepreneur had been running his Ultimate Food Tours side hustle

→ Continue reading at Entrepreneur

More from author

Related posts

Advertisment

Latest posts

They told her no one goes to a bar to watch women’s sports. Jenny Nguyen proved them wrong | CNN Business

CNN  —  With three seconds left on the clock, the score knotted up at 58 — the fifth...

Mega Millions Jackpot climbs to $1 billion ahead of Christmas Eve drawing | CNN Business

CNN  —  A lucky Mega Millions player might be in store for a $1 billion Christmas present this...

10% of the world’s data storage capacity lives in Virginia. Expanding may be difficult

As other states get in the game, leaders in Virginia are facing the growing pains of hosting the biggest cluster of data center capacity...