Side Hustle Economy Reaches Logical Endpoint as Man's Only Job Is Managing His Side Hustles

Entrepreneurial polymath Darius Webb, 24, has achieved what economists are calling 'the side hustle singularity' — a state in which his sole occupation is the full-time management of his seventeen side hustles, none of which individually qualifies as a main hustle. Webb's portfolio includes reselling sneakers, dropshipping phone cases, managing three Etsy shops (stickers, digital planners, and custom pet portraits generated by AI), running a TikTok account about running TikTok accounts, tutoring students in cryptocurrency trading, walking dogs through an app, renting his parking space through another app, and — in what he describes as his most meta venture — selling a course on how to manage multiple side hustles. 'I don't have a job,' Webb explained from a co-working space where he pays by the hour using revenue from an affiliate marketing link. 'I have seventeen jobs. None of them are my job. All of them are my job. The concept of a primary employer is dead and I am dancing on its grave.' Webb's weekly schedule, which he has shared in a viral LinkedIn post, is a color-coded spreadsheet that his former economics professor, Dr. Maria Santos, has included as a case study in her dissertation on the gig economy. 'The spreadsheet has 47 tabs, each representing a revenue stream, cross-referenced by time investment, ROI, and what Darius calls vibe alignment,' Dr. Santos said. 'It is simultaneously the most entrepreneurial and most exhausting document I've ever analyzed.' Webb's total monthly income across all seventeen hustles averages $4,200 — approximately what he would earn at a single full-time entry-level position, but distributed across a schedule that requires him to work every waking hour. 'The freedom is incredible,' Webb said, checking his phone, which displayed notifications from nine different platforms simultaneously. 'I'm my own boss seventeen times over. I answer to no one, except seventeen different customer bases, seven platform algorithms, and the IRS, who I'm sure is going to have questions.'