text:  Look, I don't say that this is for everybody. But if you're struggling with paying your bills, a far better idea than going into credit card debt is to try to find some extra income. And we have a recent survey out from Bankrate that found that a lot of people are doing this, by the way. A lot of people in the last two years when inflation spiked. Just to put the numbers out there, the average side hustler in this survey say they make $891 per month.