Why this word is great
BYWORK — [Noun] Work done in addition to one's normal duties; subordinate or secondary business. From by- ("secondary, incidental") + work ("labor, task"). Unlike "side hustle" (which suggests entrepreneurial zeal) or "moonlighting" (which implies secrecy), bywork is the quiet accretion of labor, neither glamorous nor clandestine. It is the professor grading papers after midnight, the gardener tending his own plot after a day maintaining others', or the seamstress mending her children’s clothes long after the shop has closed—small, necessary acts that blur the line between duty and devotion, between what we do for others and what we do, simply, because it must be done.