{"id":41641,"date":"2026-01-14T19:12:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=41641"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:12:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:12:44","slug":"do-you-have-a-side-hustle-alongside-your-phd-studies-take-natures-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=41641","title":{"rendered":"Do you have a side hustle alongside your PhD studies? Take Nature\u2019s poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <\/p>\n<p class=\"figure__caption u-sans-serif\"><span class=\"mr10\">Dog walking is one way in which members of Generation Z are earning extra money on the side.<\/span><span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among the youngest people in the workforce \u2014 members of Gen Z, which describes those born between 1997 and 2012 \u2014 57% have a side hustle, according to a survey by the Harris Poll reported in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>For some, earning extra money is a necessity to cope with high living costs and stagnating salaries. A report for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the United Kingdom\u2019s largest funder of PhDs, suggests that more than half of research organizations and training-grant holders think that current PhD stipends do not meet researchers\u2019 living costs. And a survey from Morning Consult showed that university students\u2019 financial optimism has fallen to the lowest level since tracking began in 2018 \u2014 mainly owing to concerns about unemployment and AI-induced layoffs. Others are chasing creative or entrepreneurial goals.<\/p>\n<p>Is the current economic climate causing researchers to seek a second income? Nature wants to know whether you have, or had, a side hustle during your PhD studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dog walking is one way in which members of Generation Z are earning extra money on the side.Credit: Getty Among the youngest people in the workforce \u2014 members of Gen Z, which describes those born between 1997 and 2012 \u2014 57% have a side hustle, according to a survey by the Harris Poll reported in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[15392,16604,16456,3024,3468,5634],"class_list":{"0":"post-41641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-hustle","9":"tag-natures","10":"tag-phd","11":"tag-poll","12":"tag-side","13":"tag-studies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}