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How I Built a Business While Studying Full Time

2025-08-10 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:01 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Business and entrepreneurship · mode: Personal story · tags: His medical past, Aimed at students

In a Short, Ali says building a business or side hustle while studying means sacrificing something: he built businesses through medical school and as a doctor by working evenings, weekends and holidays, made the work fun, and partied, watched TV and exercised less than his friends.

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00:00:00 — Making time for a business while studying: something has to be sacrificed

  • ★★★ Ali says the unfortunate truth about making time to build a business or side hustle while studying is that something in your life has to be sacrificed. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali built various businesses in medical school and kept growing his business while working full time as a doctor, spending many weekends, evenings and holidays on them. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali says he made building his businesses fun, so it did not feel like hardship, but he partied less than other students, watched little TV, did not take much care of his health and was never into sports or the gym at university. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali says that beyond what we have to do, we have perhaps 10 to 20 hours a week of discretionary time, which can go to sports, partying, TV, social media, starting a business or starting a YouTube channel. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Ali says it is really hard to build something on the side unless you are willing to sacrifice some of what your friends do, such as TV, social media, parties or raves until four in the morning. — 00:00:29

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