My full-time job pays me far too much money to make it worth my time to realistically ever waste it freelancing on the side.
Whenever I do actually sit down and start doing freelance work, it’s at my extremely ridiculous hourly rate. I charge effectively triple my hourly salary just to make it worth my time.
This seems quite self-contradictory. Regardless, I've found that after doing it for a few years, I can make 2-3x more doing freelance than I could in a salary job. All it takes is hustle.