{"id":183965,"date":"2017-07-07T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=183965"},"modified":"2017-07-07T16:02:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T14:02:13","slug":"more-than-a-third-of-south-africans-have-a-side-job-heres-what-theyre-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/183965\/more-than-a-third-of-south-africans-have-a-side-job-heres-what-theyre-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a third of South Africans have a side-job &#8211; here&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the recently released\u00a0Old Mutual&#8217;s Savings and Investment Monitor,\u00a013% of South Africans have a side-job similar to their current occupations, while\u00a024% have an additional source of income\u00a0that is completely different to their day job.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed &#8220;slashers&#8221; by Old Mutual, the report noted that this 24% is steadily increasing as South Africans look to earn additional income in an entirely separate field. Further, 53% of respondents indicated that they would actually prefer to make a career out of their side-job as opposed to their current career path.<\/p>\n<p>63% of slashers indicated that they enjoy having more than one job, while 42% admitted that they\u00a0don\u2019t have time for more than one job, but financially needed the money.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the most popular side-jobs are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Catering<\/li>\n<li>Event planner<\/li>\n<li>Errand runner\/messenger<\/li>\n<li>Garden service<\/li>\n<li>Internet caf\u00e9<\/li>\n<li>Sell stationery to schools<\/li>\n<li>Nail technician<\/li>\n<li>Carpentry<\/li>\n<li>Musician<\/li>\n<li>Photographer<\/li>\n<li>Tutor<\/li>\n<li>Barber<\/li>\n<li>Installing water treatment equipment<\/li>\n<li>Selling Herbalife<\/li>\n<li>HR consultancy<\/li>\n<li>Manufacture kiddies clothing<\/li>\n<li>Party equipment<\/li>\n<li>Make costume jewellery<\/li>\n<li>Online boutique<\/li>\n<li>Bookseller<\/li>\n<li>Hiring<\/li>\n<li>Waiting<\/li>\n<li>Cash wash<\/li>\n<li>Sell \u201cflat stomach\u201d tea<\/li>\n<li>Grow and sell vegetables<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>According to the report, 63% of slashers indicated that they enjoy having more than one job, while 42% admitted that they\u00a0don\u2019t have time for more than one job, but financially needed the money. In comparison just\u00a014% of respondents said that financially they didn&#8217;t need to have a second job.<\/p>\n<p>The respondents provided the following reasons as why exactly they had decided to start up a side-job.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Why-more-than-one-job.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-new-size wp-image-183971 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Why-more-than-one-job-640x345.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Why-more-than-one-job-640x345.jpg 640w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Why-more-than-one-job-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Why-more-than-one-job-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Why-more-than-one-job-1024x552.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Why-more-than-one-job.jpg 1053w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/183621\/__trashed-73\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How many South Africans will have to support their parents through retirement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the recently released\u00a0Old Mutual&#8217;s Savings and Investment Monitor,\u00a013% of South Africans have a side-job similar to their current occupations, while\u00a024% have an additional source of income\u00a0that is completely different to their day job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":172205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-183965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183965"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184285,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183965\/revisions\/184285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}