The season of covid 19 became an August visitor in February, it has made us to see and evaluate our finance from another perspective.

The question is, if this lock down was to continue for another 2 to 3 months how would you fare financially ?

It will be interesting to note that having only one source of income will not sustain your needs, even when you could sustain there is a need to have an additional source of income or multiple sources of income. it is time to think inwardly, there are products that you can market on the side or there are services that you could provide and this becomes a side hustle.
Through one can employ one or two hands to help as the business scale up, more hands will be added .

The question is what side hustle do you do that wouldn’t distract one from the main source of income till this hustle became another major source of income?

There is a whole lot of opportunities scatter around. look for opportunity that align with your passion and has less distraction. For a start you will be looking at bringing cost to barest minimum.

People must eat and having business in the food value chain sector is sector that people can't do without This sector is a gold mine because people eat daily. Your kitchen will be your production unit for a start and with one or two machines you are good to start. One or two extra hands you are good to start depending on what you decide to do .
Let look at some products / services that can be package from the comfort of your kitchen.

1.Turning irish potatoes into french fries
2. Making fruit juice and smoothie.
3. Spices packaging
4.Tea packaging
5. Cashew and other dry fruit packaging
6. Coconut chips
7. Home baking
8. Tomatoes packing ( Seasonal)
9. Flour packaging ( beans, yam and plantain )
10. Home made chinchin, plantain chips and a whole lot more
We need to plan in all we do and side hustle is not an exception. it is important that you get a business plan, ( this will help you to have a sense of direction for the business, what(machinery and technical know how) is require even at the hustling stage.
As we pray and hope for the best, it is also time to put in the thinking cap, how to add another stream or streams of income .