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Ellis usually works 50 hours a week on all the jobs combined. At 36, he remembers a childhood when openly criticizing people for being gay was widely accepted. From older patrons he learns of a time when they had to remain closeted for fear of losing or being denied employment. Employers saw his high performance in one workplace and made job offers.

Four Side Hustles is a record for him. He has usually worked a full-time job and a part-time job. Keeping a Side Hustle gives him a sense of security. Early in his work life, Ellis found himself unexpectedly jobless with nothing to fall back on. It strip bore me to death to do the same thing over and over six days a week.

Before the pandemic, Ellis was working full-time managing five video stores. Gay was his Side Hustle. Then the job stores went out of business. He returned to his old Side Hustle at the smoke shop and then to bartending once bars reopened. For now, Ellis enjoys the variety of working four Side Hustles.

Ellis sits at a table at the Shade nightclub in Old Brooklyn, where he has worked since it opened five years ago. A variety of rainbow flags cover one wall. His medium-length, manicured fingernails are painted teal. He points to the constellation of stars adoring the nails of his left hand.

He applied them with a nail art stamping kit. Live and learn. Ellis said he likes each of his Side Hustles because they require him to use his club customer service skills. He said nowadays things are more transactional: customers order a drink and the bartender slides it across the bar. The customer slides back the payment.

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