London | Oct. 23, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET | 4 min read

When the workweek is done, it isn’t quite over for Dylan Harwood.

Monday through Friday, this 26-year-old Londoner teaches a classroom full of raucous 9-year-olds. But on the weekends, he trades school tables for turntables. Mr. Harwood has a side hustle as a DJ.

The weekend work helps him earn several hundred pounds extra each month – useful money in the expensive capital of a country where people have increasingly been feeling the pinch.

But there’s another factor at play here.

“I love doing it,” he says. “It combines all the things I love – music, bringing people together, dancing. Everyone should have some sort of creative outlet in their life. I’m just lucky that mine can bring me some extra income.”

Mr. Harwood is not alone. He says many of his friends also have more than one job.…