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"Side hustles"

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GodneySaysWorkBitch · 30/06/2022 22:32

Item on the news about "side hustles" ie working two jobs - apparently "most people find that it gives them a better sense of fulfillment". So, not run ragged trying to make ends meet then. It's fun!!! This is just normalising poverty wages isn't it? Via the medium of upbeat go-getting language. I wonder how fulfilled your average cleaner feels when she puts her head down for six hours sleep before clocking on to her full time job next morning.

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MissWired · 30/06/2022 22:33

I agree - normalising this is dangerous.

EeeByeGummieBear · 30/06/2022 22:38

Absolutely - someone I know is exhausted and struggling in her 'main job' but is refusing to drop her 'side hustle' because 'everyone has one' and she is starting to see herself a 'failing' because she is struggling to effectively work two jobs 🫤

alphons · 30/06/2022 22:50

I find “side-hustle” ridiculous. If you’re working an office job and selling your crafting output in your spare time, you’re hardly “hustling” 🙄. If you’re a SAHM in an MLM, that’s not a “hustle”. If you’re a cleaner working FT and working at Asda PT, neither are “hustles”; they’re jobs.

Mobsters hustled. Dealers hustle. Gun runners hustle. Literally nobody on MN is “hustling” fgs.

Joyfultoes · 30/06/2022 22:54

was a thing for a while but I hoped it had died a well deserved death. My side hustle is fucking sleeping

TheChippendenSpook · 30/06/2022 23:07

alphons · 30/06/2022 22:50

I find “side-hustle” ridiculous. If you’re working an office job and selling your crafting output in your spare time, you’re hardly “hustling” 🙄. If you’re a SAHM in an MLM, that’s not a “hustle”. If you’re a cleaner working FT and working at Asda PT, neither are “hustles”; they’re jobs.

Mobsters hustled. Dealers hustle. Gun runners hustle. Literally nobody on MN is “hustling” fgs.

Well said!

Avarua1 · 30/06/2022 23:16

Lol at my side-hustle is sleeping.

GodneySaysWorkBitch · 30/06/2022 23:44

Yy it's ridiculous terminology for working yourself into an early grave.

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Noglassjustthebottleandastraw · 30/06/2022 23:54

Mobsters hustled. Dealers hustle. Gun runners hustle. Literally nobody on MN is “hustling” fgs.

Or are they 🤔

Noglassjustthebottleandastraw · 30/06/2022 23:58

This is obviously the start of the Government's campaign to make out we are all having a fucking ball working our tits off during this economic crisis. Work two jobs be fulfilled! Or wait for the it's our civic duty to work extra for the economy.

Honestly they are all utter melts!

GodneySaysWorkBitch · 01/07/2022 00:00

Completely agree.

What's more fun than a job?

  • TWO jobs!!!
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