I don’t want to work THAT hard | Hustle Culture 

laziness doesn’t exist. The 40 hour work week isn’t even supposed to be normal. Wanting to rest our bodies and find fulfilment in relaxing shouldn’t be considered “laziness”

" I do not have a dream job.I do not dream of labor."James Baldwin.

I would love a slow paced and stable job, which is also flexible. I want to be able to do normal, homely things because that gives me happiness. I don't want my work to define my entire existence.

we also need to kill the notion that we must have everything figured out at a certain point, or you're a failure. it's okay to not know wtf is going in life. it's okay to be where we are & move / grow from there.

I realized this months ago and decided to not work so hard anymore. I’ve been so happy

hustle culture is soooo toxic!!! It's okay to want to live a 'normal' life and have a 9-5.

Less is more. There is more and more evidence that shorter work hours/days/weeks creates a lot more productivity. The same with schools. We need to reform our whole work system, environment and culture.

A lot of companies don’t value employees.. employees are disposable at any time no matter how hard you slave for your corporation. We are taught to work hard but in return our corporations are not giving us the same respect. Exploited for productivity then thrown to the bin when your supply has been used. What life is this ?

I hate how we've demonised being comfortable and settling; we shame people who choose simple jobs like being a truck driver or choosing t o live a low stress life in a small town, not everyone wants a high stress job in the city whilst working two side hustles and it shouldn't be normalised that everyone should have to do that much just to make a living.

exactly, work is ok and has to be done but why are we being told we need to break ourselves to achieve success...you gonna be too damaged to enjoy it 😭

Hustle culture is rooted in wanting more stuff beyond our basic needs being met. Its greed, discontentment driven and wanting more and more.

My job literally posted a obituary of one of our employees who worked there for 20 years explaining her time there at the company. She spent the first 7 years working Mon-Sat and they praised her for “rarely calling out”& all the family she left behind...do you know at the bottom of her post, they posted her job ID if anyone was interested in filling her position ASAP...Her death, her obituary & her job ID all in the same post...I will not give someone 20 years of my life, my weekends, my holidays(we ran 24/7), to only get 4 measly sentences to summarize my time here....fuck these jobs & corporations...

Hustle culture has one goal: to tell everyone that you should be unhappy and unsatisfied but energetic about it all the same. Basically a sadomasochistic mind set

As a young 21 year old haitian immigrant that lives in the states, its so fucking exhausting to have to grind/hustle for every damn thing. Its draining to have to always be chasing after a goal, i ask my cousin which come from the same background as me, when am I'm going to feel happy. Sometimes i truly wish i came from a wealthy family where I didn't have to work so hard for basic things. Mind you im graduating nuraing school next week, RN at 21, but I still feel like I can't enjoy this moment because it's on to the next thing.

i like how she gets straight to the topic, no bullshit intro, or asking for thumbs up,

I am not lazy, I am just not going to overextend myself. I want to live a nice comfortable life and that's it. I am not trying to work day in and day out.

Yesss 100% I'm currently in my last year of university getting a chemical engineering degree. My plan is to make enough money to retire my parents and send them back to the homeland and then I'm going to be an assistant librarian some day lol

I've embraced hustle culture hard, from the day I started working, have always had 2+ jobs even while going to school. The last 5 years, I worked literally everyday single day, and only had calendar holidays off. I am officially BURNT. OUT. I have since switched to night shift, and cut my hours, now I can never go back to hustling that hard again. I'm sick of people, work, everything, I can't do it anymore.

When people ask me what's my dream job, I say to make money in my sleep. People look at me crazy when I say that 🤷🏽‍♀️. My goal is to own 99.9% of my time. I want to spend my time doing things that enhance my life, improve my quality of life, and make me well-rounded and happy. I don't want to work 40 hours a week. I don't care to be a business owner either, working 100 plus hours a week with extra responsibility. More power to those who do it; I just don't want to🤷🏽‍♀️. I've been working since I was 11 and I'm now 40. I'm over working.

My generation and younger are the ones having these conversations and now I realize why boomers call us "lazy." They want us to work ourselves to death and be miserable like them. 😩😩😩

Hustle Culture: The romanticization of hard work

I hustled hard in my early 20s. One day, I started feeling ill. I was weak, nauseous, and hardly could eat anything. I saw a couple doctors and none of them could figure out what was wrong with me. I decided to take that summer off to rest. Almost instantly, I started feeling better. All the symptoms went away. That following fall when school and work started back up, the symptoms returned. I realized then that it was my body's response to prolonged stress. I truly believe all that stress did permanent damage to my body. I no longer wish to hustle, to stress, to stay busy 24/7. This isn't the way humans were meant to live. We are meant to experience stress in short bursts. Sadly, if you're not hustling in America, you're a loser. I'm glad some of us are trying to change that narrative!

Yes! It’s so cringe idealising the ‘Girl Boss’ aesthetic🙄 honestly life doesn’t have to revolve around work; it’s important to figure out who you are, not just what you want to do 🤷🏾‍♀️

I always say God forbid I drop dead tomorrow, my job will probably say “aww man, we will miss her”... & proceed to post my position. It’s not worth it. I honestly crave a life of joy in the simple things. I try to get it whenever I can on my off days

Yes! We need a "girl boss" video. It's so crazy. I think it's even worse in America. The first thing people ask you in a conversation is "so what do you for a living?" Your career does not need to be your whole identity. You don't need to 5 jobs. You're not lazy if you only work one and only have one stream of income. There's this weird obsession with building generational wealth. Idk I'm literally just trying to survive and be happy and content during the survival, which currently I am🙂

"Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist." Proverbs 23:4

I think what i dislike most about hustle culture is the idea that where you are is never good enough and if you have not attained something (despite “working hard”) its somehow your fault/due to laziness. It’s honestly so draining. What happened to being happy and content with where you are? Thanks for the informative vid Adella 💕

Great topic to discuss..I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I don’t want to work hard, I want to work well, for my mind, body and spirit.

I myself tried this hustle culture BS. Had a 9-5 and two side hustles. I couldn't keep up. No sleep. No rest. No time for yourself. Hustle culture is essentially a way of keeping up with the Joneses. It's a way of trying to impress upon people that you have it all, when it all has you. It's sick. And no you're not lazy for wanting a regular job with regular hours. You do not need the excessively big house, cars, clothes or anything that those who promote hustle culture tell you that you do. Money really and truly doesn't buy happiness. I do not want to be a boss babe. Tried it and I was tired as hell. It's too much. I do not know how people/women who do this sustain it over time.

I think Gen Xers have really figured this out but no one pays attention to us 🤣🤣 On a serious note, you know hustle culture has infiltrated the US society when employees are fearful to request to take their vacation days / PTO.

Love this! Not everyone is supposed to build a billion dollar empire by the age of 26. That life isn’t for everybody and can suit some people but not others. Sometimes I think about this and ask myself what is it we are actually chasing.

Hustle culture is annoying AF. I love my little 9-5 job working in a brokerage office clearing shipments for a large corporate aero industry. It’s just me and two people in the office and I can work from home once shipments lessen in the afternoon. I’m off weekends and I get to spend quality time with my boyfriend, see friends, go pamper myself, cooking, grocery shopping, watch movies at home … the options are endless! Im so blessed for this job because in the past I worked in retail for YEARS and I never got a weekend off in my life unless I had to request it months in advance. Im grateful and I don’t care for a second stream of income because I was always stressing trying to get multiple jobs. I get paid more at this position than all other jobs I’ve held. I paid off my car loan last month with this one job and budget my money. Now I’m saving and spending on experiences ☺️

I was talking to a resident of mine and she was telling me how back in the 70s and 80s, her and her husband, made enough to buy their own home, have 2 cars and go on vacation, every now and then, while raising 3 kids. Her husband was a car mechanic and she was a nurse. She then told me that she felt bad for this generation because she sees how hard many people work, and they still can't have half of what her and her husband had at 25. It bothered me because it was all true. Honestly, I feel like hustle culture, is really there to show off to other people, what you've accomplished and if they want to be successful, then they need to make the same move. It's emotionally, mentally,physically and spiritually damaging and it gets old quickly.

I love seeing a black women talking about this because society says we are supposed to work hard to the point of lack of sleep, suffer in silence, and put up with abuse. But then I realized that society doesn't care about black women.

Thank you for this content! ✨ “Trusting God = rest” I needed to hear that! ✨

I think people are so focused on finding a job they're passionate about/fulfilling because they are spending majority of their time at work so they look for a career that can completely fulfill them when in reality there is more to life than work you can't tie your entire identity to it.

Definitely agree with all the points raised in this video, nowadays you see people talking about having multiple streams of income, while I do understand why this is important, I do sometimes wonder why it has come to this. Why can't I just live a happy fulfilled life on one income? In today's society it almost seems like you are a failure, if you aren't earning an income from more than one source.

Someone once told me that a German start up reduced their working days to 6h and had Wednesdays off (and weekends of course) and the employees got just as much work done.

I'm currently 24, got married last month and my wife and i have got a baby coming in December. I dropped outta school when I was 16 and worked 16 hour work days, 6 days a week on my business and several different side hustles until I got married last month.( I don't wanna lie I enjoyed every minute of it).I sold four of my businesses to bigger corporations and now I only work 6 hour days every other day (cause I just can't stay away from it). That was the best decision of my life. The only reason I worked so hard the last 8 or so years was so I could have this freedom to spend time with the love of my life and soon to be family, travel with them and spend all this time with them whenever I want. I want to enjoy these moments which I'm pretty sure I would've missed if I was constantly working. Ive heard so many stories of people on their death beds saying they wish they spent more time with their family. I don't want to be one of those people. Thank you for reading this far lol.

That whole hustle culture grinds my gears. Especially hearing them say things like “you sleep for 8 hours, work at the office for 8 hours, what are you doing for those other 8 hours of the day?!” As if commuting and breaks aren’t necessary parts of ones day.

A Tony Robbins ad showed up just before your video.. the way he speaks stresses me out so much tbh 😅

This is why I'm a stay at home mom. It's not lazy to reject hustle culture, it's prioritizing peace and things that are most important to you. I think a lot of gen z(my generation) and millennials (husband's generation) think staying home isn't even an option because hustle culture tells us we are only as valuable as our careers. Nice video topic. 😊

hustle culture is soooo American Dream. you’re not working out of duty or necessity - it’s idolised, and people who don’t hustle are looked down on (BROKE PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER LAUGH) as if someone’s productivity determines their worth. also: love your lips ma’am

Really the goal is to make your money work for you instead of using all the hours in your day for money. If you hustle the point is to build passive income to free your time essentially stop exchanging time for money.

Let’s talk about the fact in a common job, the “hustler” ends up taken advantage of, working longer hours, extra shifts, and higher expectations while others who really are lazy get to move up

Gurrrrrrrl!!!! I've been saying this! I'm so burnt out from the hustle culture. It's unfulfilling, purposeless, pointless... I'm getting myself out. Can't do it anymore.

For most people, the birth and raising of their child will be the most meaningful thing in their life, not filling in excel spreadsheets at work.

I didnt even realize im overworking. When you said you wake up at 7 and come home at 10...its so normalized for me 🥴😭

No one asked but here's a tip on prioritizing yourself is: Do one thing for yourself every hour of the day. Like IDK drink a glass of water, lotion your hand, say an affermation... Note: time/duration is not the prime focus

Random thought but you remind me of Kerry Washington. Lol idk why.

Soooo true! I only LOVE the idea of hustling and grinding..but don't actually enjoy doing it...I'm an early morning person but I still rather relax in the morning than work and grind in the morning.

Hustle culture really sometimes get out of hand, so busy working and grinding and no time for enjoyment..not everyone can find that balance

Achieving something is actually not really about working hard. It’s about working smart, developing skills, discipline and really connecting with yourself! For example: knowing when to rest, knowing what you enjoy, knowing what your good at and what you are not, self reflection etc.

What's strangest to me is that sometimes in hustle culture the amount of work you put in is valued more than the outcome. Isn't it better to work less but get out more?

Not sure how overworking became so glorified lol - so funny to see how prevalent it is in the Western culture

I have an online business and a job and I don’t subscribe to hustle culture. I am pursuing my business because it’s my passion and I only want more money so I can travel more. I use to overwork myself but now I take breaks. I no longer work outside of my job description and I don’t force myself to work on my business when I’m exhausted.

from someone who hates human interactions, i remember when i worked as a receptionist at a hotel.. everyday i cry my way to work, worried what type of people im gonna face, and fake a happy/helpful persona. it became too much that whenever im asleep my dream is about work.. i remember my last day at work.. walking out of that building.. aaaaa i cried. i felt free

Getting a Tony Robins ad on a anti-husstle culture video. The irony✨

Build your own ✨PASSIVE✨ empire. Build something that grows even when you’re not working on it!

I totally agree with everything you have said. I am just finishing up my doctorate in education. I currently work as an elementary principal. I am freaking exhausted mentally. I just put in notice at my school and I feel I may need to take at least six months to a year off so that I can decompress. I literally want to scream. Instead, I just cry all of the time. It is just ridiculous.

Well work has been harming the health since dawn of times. If we are so advanced as societies how we didn't find a way to live nicely without spending most of our time working🤷‍♀️ I loved the video and hearing your thoughts, this topic is major for me so that's so interesting🙌🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏

We need an universal, unconditional income for every citizen.

Very interesting take on the juxtaposition between millennial and boomer work culture. Hustle culture can be very toxic and we have to check in from time to time to make sure we're not getting lost in the sauce😭

I don’t think working hard is bad or trying hard at something. I think a big problem with hustle culture is that it is more than working hard. It’s about trying to maintain the image of being a hard worker. Social media also puts pressure on us to convey a certain image. I’m in a minimum wage job. I don’t mind it too much since I still live with my mum but one of my cousins was saying how I should be aiming higher. My job is minimum wage however I don’t mind too much as other things are a big priority for me in which I try hard at. For example, my health is a priority that I have been maintaining a low carb diet for about a year. I don’t show this off to everyone but this isn’t seen as much as me putting in hard work as if I was to be grinding at a job or going back to uni. I think the problem with hustle culture is that a lot of it is image.

Hey girl! Love the video and I agree, but I wish there was some more nuance in the description of hustling/ working for material things. Because of the capitalistic society that we live in, most people are working so hard just to LIVE- to not be homeless, hungry. We are actually forced to work this hard. Working 40 hrs a week is too much, yet you can't get basic benefits (in the USA) without working this much. Hustle culture is just a new way we are baited into sacrificing what makes us happy and brings us together in order to advance corporate gains.

We do need to work this hard because inflation keeps going up but our pay doesn’t. If you start having kids, it’s miserable to struggle financially and raise them

It's healthy to have boundaries. That 100% includes boundaries with work.

i don't enjoy working and what I hate more is that we have to act like it is something we LOVE and INSPIRE to do and DREAM about. Literally, 95 percent of the world does not have a DREAMJOB that they love. they are just glad they can make a living.

I work in a place for a year and I was told after twelve months probation that they were letting me go because I wasn't working until 10 pm. Usually, I would have been mad be I was glad I was not part of the burnout team. I think it is by design that people are pushed to start earlier and work later.

I felt this! I'm trying to recover from the hustle culture and wrongly labeled myself lazy. It can become an unhealthy habit.

Everything you said literally resonated with me so much ! This constant pressure of having to “grind” and pick up new skills regularly 🙆🏽‍♀️ making some feel guilty about something God has even instructed us to make time for=rest! Llol🙆🏽‍♀️ i’d love to hear a part two! I want to be a lady of relaxation personally🙃 but whilst still living in my purpose !😅

I have worked as a teacher, I have worked for Wells Fargo, I have been a collegiate instructor, yet, the job I was the happiest doing was as a Barista at Pete's Coffee.....gosh, I miss those days. It was low paying but fun, social, and flexible.

It’s okay to want a simple life and it’s also okay to be driven and want more. Shaming either side is pointless. The world needs entrepreneurs and leaders to drive innovation/society and the world also needs those that want to live a simple life and work a basic 9-5. Not everyone should be an entrepreneur or hustler, otherwise those entrepreneurs wouldn’t have workers in the first place.

It's great you are discussing this cos for me being a working mum I feel guilty that I'm not chasing positions (while my peers are moving up), im just working towards being excellent in my current position, being an excellent mum to my toddlers and being an excellent wife and somehow getting a balance. Especially cos God has blessed me financially so I don't want to be ungrateful.

Very good point you made about rebranding boomer struggles. Alot of us do approach work with fear and anxiety which sucks away any sort of passion we may have originally had. Overworking is often a trauma response (I have recently learned in therapy) A lot of us overwork because we are scared of rejection or failure or we feel we need to prove ourselves by proving those that doubted us wrong - but actually how we best do that is living a fulfilled, content and happy life full of rest. Even if we do want to work towards material success, we should not neglect ourselves along the way because you need your whole healthy self to truly enjoy any wealth.

This culture of hustle hard and overachieving can only lead to burn out, health issues and depression. It is time to rethink the standards by which we are being judged!

Here's some Boomer wisdom: Quality wins over Quanity every time. The amount of money you make is important, but what you do with that money is vital over all. If you're burned out, you won't manage your money right, you won't manage your social interactions right, you manage yourself right. Netflix & chill.

I agree with that "passion" topic. I foud that tho there are some stuff that I like, I am not crazy passionate about anything. And that's okay.

Contentment is important but capitalism and inflation is real. You need less than you think you do in most cases but people need more financial literacy and money management skills. It's ok to want what you want and work for it while keeping in mind what all the potential outcomes are.

I definitely feel this way, i was making lists and lists to be busy but for what? I was doing 100 things, when the panini began and it just made me tired lol Just productivity for nothing, or going made trying to make side hustles. I was so burnt out I had to channel "I can't come and die" because hustle culture is def a disease. Def can relate to having to be productive from fear of not appearing productive enough or being reprimanded.

People call me lazy cause i dont study hard for exams.the edu system is so bad that you only study to get marks and learn nothing.i hate this system.

Yessss, listening to the body and self awareness. Thank you for this video. 💕 It only took me about 3-4yrs to burnout on hustle culture. A major difference between Boomers and Millennials & Gen Z is we’re course correcting 5-10yrs into this, where they never course corrected. Another reason we started with hustle culture is bc we had to, especially millennials. We didn’t inherit the same economy Boomers did. This effects things massively and we essentially started thinking out of the box to pay the bills and keep up, which meant some serious side hustling. Also in general Boomer’s don’t acknowledge facts (not all obviously, some are cool) and how things have changed so when they saw us not buying houses and not popping out babies on their same timeline they called us lazy, entitled perpetual children. ....when the truth is it’s simply not financially responsible to do either at this time. ....My personal take on this is they woke up one day and realized they’d never made a conscious choice in their life, they just followed the prescribed timeline and boxes they’re “supposed” to check. So when we weren’t doing it they were like “hey I didn’t know that was a option” and became bitter little jelly bells. When the truth is our generations were just forced to start making personal and conscious choices bc the old choices weren’t available anymore. And from that hustle culture was born, something we should consciously disengaged with. We’ve tried it. It felt necessary at some point. But it’s hurting us, so let’s change. Basically - It’d be helpful to question everything Boomers said and put on us, and examine what made us start acting the way we did. And then course correct. We are more conscious generations, we’ll get this soon enough.

Imagine wasting your whole life …….working

Honestly, I'd like to work for myself so that I can have flexibility in when and where I work, which I guess means that I'm going to have to work harder to get there, but I'm definitely not into hustle culture. I'd just like to have enough money to live comfortably and travel

This spoke to me on so many levels! I thought I was the only one who thought like this! Beautiful perspective!

As you describe hustle culture it reminds me of the American dream! how they say if you work hard you can achieve great success and we all know in America that is not even close to true. Yes hard work for anything in life is very needed but the endless constant work and grind hustle culture promotes is horrible. We weren’t put on this earth to work ourselves endlessly to death, we should ENJOY life. Yes work but take breaks, find things that you enjoy that bring you to life, spend time with loved ones. I hate this idea of hustle culture it’s so toxic and dangerous as well. It also makes people in their 20’s feel like they are behind in life little do they realize life just started for them.

This remind me so, so much of back when I used to work at concerts during the summers (in security, and that's a whole 'nother can of beans) and how the hierarchical system there and the hustle culture/mentality of esp big productions just made those places such incredibly toxic places to work. I remember working 15h shifts 4 days straight and not even feeling human anymore at one festival and I mentioned how utterly exhausted I was to a coworker as I was heading back to our sleeping quarters after day 3 and they responded "oh I was scheduled for 16h shifts only [of course you were], but someone got sick, so I had to jump in and take the rest of their shift last minute. I've been working 17h and have 4 left to go today!" in the most sickeningly cheerful and self-righteous tone, a tone that was just rampant in the industry. And I think that could have been a point where I could have been further brainwashed into thinking that what was going on was ok, but I don't know if it was the fact that I was so exhausted or that I just wasn't down deep enough yet but that conversation just never sat right with me. Like, how could I possibly have worked harder after standing up for +15h for three days straight, barely having any time to even shower inbetween my shifts, much less eat breakfast and even then not getting enough sleep? Would love to say I never went back but I came for YEARS afterwards. Don't think I will ever be able to enjoy a big production concert.

Since I was 18 I been working. I had two jobs for 3 years while going to school- thinking that hustle was what I needed to do. Now my kids are 8 years and 6 and I stare at them and I think. Wow they are growing so fast. And just this year I realize that I all I want to do is be with my kids more. So I’m in the process of working smarter not harder.

bring the video please! Your videos are very informative and well rounded. It is never a waist of time listening to you. Thank you Adella. Keep em coming. Blessings

Hustle is great. When what you're hustling for is something you're passionate about and you're not just working hard while not knowing exactly what it is you're even working hard for. Working hard often doesn't pay off. If you're working a job you hate and thinking that if you just work harder and make more money you'll be happy, you're chasing a lie. Happiness doesn't come from a particular dollar amount but rather, loving what it is you do to make that money.

This is truly why i invested in your mentorship. Because of who you are and what you preach! Honestly was a very amazing video, and keeping me motivated even more. Yesterday hit my biggest day of $9.6k in A SINGLE WEEK! Thanks for all you do!

I appreciate y’all he amount of work and thought that you put into these videos Adella! There is quite a bit to digest here haha The LinkedIn post and statistics were particularly unsettling. I also appreciated your conclusion! I love how you stated that at the end of the day we do have a choice. At least more than we think we do in a lot of cases. Its a reminder for me to question my motivations as I am look forward to really entering the workforce (currently still a student lol) Self-awareness is so important Lastly Lool I love how frank you were about passion and work. I definitely agree that it can creat a whole other pressure and just isn’t always necessary! Thank you for sharing your thoughts😄 Wpuld love for to make a video about the whole ‘Girl Boss’ narrative too Have a great week Adella!

I think going to college really makes one understand what it feels like to have no boundaries. You do classes, but then homework and studying just encroached on everything else. After that, being able to just leave work at work sounds *so* wonderful.

Yep it's soooo toxic to work yourself to the end. And hustling gets very few people wealthy.

Hahaha the pics of the two men in the cover are hilarious. They’re so intense

You CONSTANTLY speak what my mind is thinking but not articulating properly! You just gained a new subscriber, I love it 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

It's so hard to escape this hustle culture though when closing your eyes feels like the world is leaving you decades behind. Damn!

Hustle & bustle culture is toxic. There are other forms of hustling (some which I would not ever do!). I used to work sometimes 90hrs/week in the midlands. I moved to London for a lower hour job and enjoy my freetime investing into what I enjoy doing more a better work versus life balance. I thoroughly enjoyed my job at the time, however a change has been placed into my life. It has since opened and closed my eyes to certain things and I am trying to recuperate, and aim in the direction that I have been preparing and working towards for the last 20 or so years. It brings joy into the lives of man woman and child and I shall continue to invest my time into that field/genre until such a time that I am ready to hang up the gloves and retire completely from working/self-employment life. Peace

I'm older and I always felt how the younger people felt about the work ethic. I agree with working smart not hard. And knowing your worth. Not all that hustle and grind BS. I still buck against the system because ppl my age think that very old school way to work. I'm still a work in progress. Thanks for your content. P.S we all don't think like that.

Hustle culture is so toxic. Work-life balance is important.