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The first issue that comes to mind here is that if you can build something up to $2000 a month in your spare time (we're talking about spare time here, that's the extra Life Energy that few people have LEFT OVER at the end of the day. Family time, personal down time, eating time. Life is really busy and most people don't have a heck of a lot of energy or time left over at the end of the day.) If you somehow have extra time and are full of vigor and have lots of extra energy in time on your hands to come up with $2000 worth of income through spare time, then you're definitely at the point where would make incredibly good and smart sense to quit your day job and go full time and turn that into another $6000 or even more per month.
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