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Enter the Side Hustle

I resisted the whole "side hustle" and "gig economy" thing for a while because I thought it was just a way to justify the insignificant pay that one gets in an "entry level" role.  That all changed when I sat down to really take a look at my finances and realized that my everyday job as a Recruiter just wasn't going to cut it. The way I looked at it, I had a couple of options - find a higher paying job elsewhere, which is not always the easiest or most convenient thing to do, or find other opportunities to make money. The realization brought me back to my Senior year of College. I had saved enough over the summer working as a Life Guard to pay for my rent and utilities, with Student Loans (ugh) covering the rest.  This was fine and all, but I didn't have enough to buy anything else and I didn't have a job. Man, oh man, what was I to do?  I started Googling and came across this website called Swagbucks.com.  The name made me think that i...