Side Hustle Junior: Your Guide to Earning Online

By: Carrier, Jeffrey L.

On a Saturday afternoon, Maya drew twelve cats with tiny crowns, packaged them as a digital sticker set, priced it at $4 - and went to sleep. By Sunday night, eleven strangers had bought it. She made $44 from a device she already owned, using a free app she had downloaded to doodle.

That is what this book teaches.

Side Hustle Jr.: Your Guide to Earning Online is the complete, step-by-step guide for kids ages 10-14 who want to start earning money online - not someday, but this week, with tools they can download for free today.

No prior experience required. No startup money. No business license. No expensive software. Just a skill, a device, and the specific steps to turn what you already know how to do into something someone else will pay for.

Seven complete earning paths - one for every type of creator:

- Digital art and sticker packs - sell illustrations, sticker sets, and custom avatars on Etsy and Gumroad

- Websites and blogs - build a site around something you love and grow an audience that pays

- Ebooks - write and sell short guides on topics you already know well

- Print on demand - put your designs on T-shirts, mugs, posters, and phone cases without holding any inventory

- Online courses and video tutorials - teach a skill on video and sell it as a digital product

- Canva and Notion templates - build reusable design and productivity tools others will buy

- Study tools and educational resources - make flashcards, worksheets, and printables teachers and students actually need

Each chapter follows a named kid character through a real challenge - and solves it in a way you can replicate. Every chapter ends with a TRY THIS exercise designed to get you from reading to doing in under an hour.

Also inside:

- The Spend/Save/Reinvest framework for managing your first earnings

- Online safety essentials every kid entrepreneur needs to know

- Time management strategies for building a business alongside school

- How to market your work without a budget or a big following

- What to do when things go wrong - and how to recover fast

- Copyright basics, digital footprint awareness, and reputation protection

- A step-by-step project plan: build, test, improve, and launch

- Platform age requirements, a full glossary, and a guide for parents and educators

This is not a simplified version of adult business advice. Every chapter is honest about the effort required - and specific about exactly what to do next. Readers do not need to finish the book before they start. The structure is built for action.

About the Kids Future Fund

A portion of proceeds from this book supports the Kids Future Fund, a program that provides free entrepreneurship education for young creators who would not otherwise have access to it. Learn more at kidsfuturefund.org.

Side Hustle Jr. is the first book in a series. Forthcoming titles include Side Hustle Jr.: Advanced Earning, Side Hustle Jr.: Managing Your Money, and Side Hustle Jr.: Creator's Playbook.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYZG5575
• ISBN13: 9798950343025
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Carrier Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"