I design and manage infrastructure projects for a public agency I like the work and make nearly $130,000 annually. But in 2020, I felt crunched: I'd just had my first child, and I learned I wouldn't receive a merit-based pay increase due to the pandemic lockdown. So I started a side hustle called Juntero Design.
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