It's very do-able. I work 30-40 hours a week at a Law Firm (weekdays) + Target retail store (weekends). My little mini business is selling my inventions and pro

It's very do-able. I work 30-40 hours a week at a Law Firm (weekdays) + Target retail store (weekends). My little mini business is selling my inventions and products at http://ChrisNorstrom.com/shop http://ChrisNorstrom.com/shop . Only 5 are up right now with 4 new ones being added for the Holiday Season and another 2 for Spring next year. A day job allowed me to experiment and survive failures. I've had 7 products fail in the prototyping phase (costing me at least a grand) and 5 were successful. The simple ones are the ones that succeeded. What people don't realize is that it can take hundreds of dollars of experimenting with materials and suppliers to get even the simplest product just right. Selling my calendar alone took $7,000 in materials/packing/shipping/bulk orders. If it's defective you can lose thousands on the refund costs to all your customers. ● 1.5 years ago = I had 1 sale every month from ebay. ● Today = I have orders from Amazon, Etsy, Ebay, and my website come in 2-10 times a day, every day. ● I started with simple products and am expanding to Glass lamps, pebble imbedded rubber mats for showers and tubs, glass cube wall planters, and a "20" tall Leaning Tower of Piza Lamp". (I'm starting to take more risks with more profitable but harder to make products) It's growing slowly but growing none-the-less. The more money I make at my day jobs the more risk I can afford to take with my prototypes. (DO NOT underestimate the amount of space a small etsy/ebay/estore business will take up in your home. Our entire basement is dedicated to boxes, stock, and shipping supplies)