The Truth About Hustle Culture That No One Is Talking About

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[Bocphu]

A man who works all day has no time to make money.
-Henry Ford

[damianp]

"You're not rewarded for hustling. You're rewarded for playing the game." Summed up very well.

[birdman]

Terms like "side-hustle" and "gig economy" also serve to make the whole sorry deal sound more hip and cool.

[xnoykin]

I once heard it put this way:
If your name is on your shirt, you're working class.
If your name is on your desk, You're middle class.
If your name is on the building, You're upper class.

[MatthewBachar-rciv]

At the end of the day nobody will remember you and how hard you worked.

[dave]

In high school I knew a kid with rich parents, he was adopted. He had a new car, the best of everything growing up. But it was clear he was unhappy. At a reunion I met up with him again, he sells real estate, drives an old car, didn’t follow in the family business. But he appears much happier now doing his own thing.

[joebuczek]

1. Your health is everything. Money means Nothing if your health is bad.
2. Stress destroys your immune system.
3. Want what you have and you'll have what you want. Materialism is not good.
4. The most important things in Life are not Things.

[Missy-Missy]

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor. (Voltaire)

[ticktock]

Have an ex-friend who worshiped money. She and her husband makes big, big bucks. But she ignored the real welfare of her child, thinking that the elite private school and golf lessons would be the babysitters and teachers. Now the child is grown and is so helpless that she needs both parents to support her.

[marconion]

I have worked for the last 39 years (never been unemployed) and have always made less than 40K per year. The last 3 years i have worked in the food service industry and in the past have worked 17 years in retail, 12 years in hotel hospitality and 7 years in senior care. The hustle culture of working 50-60 hours per week is no longer appealing to me. I'm done chasing money. Life is too short, so i came up with the plan of working until i'm at least 65 years of age by working 2 days a week x 10hrs/day (Thursday & Friday). I'm on year two of this plan and loving it. I no longer let work consume my life. I'm done being a full time corporate/wage slave. I'm enjoying my extra free time while i still have my health and while also keeping a low taxable footprint. Money is not everything!

[lorddeathspit]

I overworked myself for years and started to develop health problems, I told my bosses I don’t work late anymore my health is more important that my job. I work my 8 hours and head home now my blood pressure and bloodwork is perfect.

[emip]

To be honest, one should be able to afford a reasonably comfortable life with just one job, whatever it may be. This is what people used to be able to do in the past. Nobody wants to have to "hustle".

[piotrmajewski]

Both US and China are both dystopian nightmares to me with their overworking culture. Technological revolutions supposed to make our lives better, so we can work less and have more leisure time. But instead only bunch of ultra rich people take all the benefits, while rest of us works more and more for same salary and promises of better life in the future.

[gt]

The problem is incredibly simple: criminals write the rules.

If you understand this, you understand why the current conditions exist.

[danandlesliebulger]

Yes, Nicole you are totally right! I worked for the large corporation for 27 years as a general labour. I worked 12 hour shifts but my wife and I lived within our means. We paid our house mortgage bi- weekly and paid it off early. Started saving for retirement at a young age and now at the age of 56 we can live comfortably, happily together without fear having to work. We never went on extravagant vacations or lifestyle. We live within our means and always lived on a monthly budget. 😊

[daveduffy]

I am getting to the end of my working career. I strive to be like my cat. Sleep, watch others run around, eat and then curl up next to my wife for some love. You’re right, hustle culture makes someone else wealthy. Stop buying shit you don’t need either. Don’t be a slave to debt.

[ytjemil]

Hustle culture also encourages people to settle for doing work for the sake of work. It's important for work to be interesting and feel purposeful, which a lot of people do not have. A positive of hustle culture is that it sometimes encourages people to transition to work they care about, but too often people get stuck in just working too much and never cut back their work once they are doing something that aligns more with their values.

[davidweum]

I was a workaholic. Workrd all overtime i could ( top 20 in Canada wide in OT one year). I lost my family and burned out).
I have nothing. Im on a medical pension.

[MonicaHernandez-ynct]

I'm retired, live in my minivan, and work as a pet sitter. I stay in beautiful houses taking care of pets, doing mostly nothing, and I get paid for that. With my small retirement money ($1100) and the pet sitter job, I can live comfortably.

[marcdc]

I work for a company that was bought by another company from another country, they do the same kind of business... then that company got bought by a company on another continent, a humongous multinational with shareholders...

Purely game-theory, the harder YOU work, the more stuff THEY can buy, and the fewer things are left for me to buy, which drives the prices up... so actually taking it easy is a win/win...

George Carlin has some good advice, if they pay you just enough so you don't quit, work just hard enough so they don't fire you...