About

About

“We’re not a publishing house. We’re two people who’ve started three of these businesses ourselves, and wrote down exactly what worked.”

— Home Side Jobs

Home Side Jobs is a small, opinionated shelf of field guides for the businesses people actually start on the side — not the ones in a franchise brochure. Every title is written by someone who has done the work: run the AI service, kept the books, or detailed the cars.

We hand-pick what goes on the shelf. No ghost-written filler, no thirty-chapter padding. If a guide can say it in 150 pages, it’s 150 pages.

From our readers

Word of mouth, mostly.

“

Detail by Weekend’s equipment list was the whole reason I could start with $540 instead of guessing and overspending on gear I didn’t need.

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Ray D., mobile detailing side job

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Ledger on the Side is the first bookkeeping book that talks about pricing instead of just software. Downloaded it, was billing my second client within three weeks.

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Owen K., freelance bookkeeper

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I bought the ebook to read that night and the paperback for the shop binder. Didn’t feel like paying twice — felt like I’d actually get through it.

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Priya M., started an AI proofreading side job