The $414,000 Side Hustle

I have a day job-and a highly profitable interior design company on the side. Here's how I did it.

- CHISOM OKWULEHIE

I design and manage infrastructure projects for a public agency I like the work and make nearly $130,000 annually. But in 2020, I felt crunched: I'd just had my first child, and I learned I wouldn't receive a merit-based pay increase due to the pandemic lockdown. So I started a side hustle called Juntero Design.