to find the term 'side hustle' intensely annoying

[Cinammoncake]

Just that really. Where did it come from?

AIBU to find it annoying?

I took it to mean something creative that doesn't necessarily pay enough on its own (i.e. the person still have a day job). People have been doing this for years, guess it's just a popular term for it now.

Jesus. People can’t win. You get slated on here if a woman doesn’t earn an income, if she’s “side hustling” it implies to be she’s gaining extra income. I don’t get the problem. It’s terminology.

I just re read the thread so far. Talk about some bitchy comments. It’s awful.

Jesus. People can’t win. You get slated on here if a woman doesn’t earn an income, if she’s “side hustling” it implies to be she’s gaining extra income

But nobody is slating people for earning an income or not. It's about the words side hustle specifically, that's all. Nothing personal to anybody

Really? The thread has started lots of bitchy comments about people’s “side hustles” which is very personal no?

Can't stand it. MLM shite.

The thread has started lots of bitchy comments about people’s “side hustles” which is very personal no?

No. There are approximately a page and a half of comments referring to the phrase

YANBU OP, it is cringeworthy. I say this as someone with more than one 'income stream'. I sell old stuff on Ebay, I don't run with the county lines, whatever they are.

GibbonLover COUNTY LINES !! that's another one I can't stand. Imo it's glorifying drug dealing by making it seem like we're in the US.

notsohippychick I've nothing against peoples actual side hustles obviously - its the words side hustle The actual phrase.

Thank you Raptor that’s precisely what I was coming along to say.

So many people can’t afford to live on their full time wage. This is a way of making “barely scraping even and having to drive an Uber or con people into buying make up just to pay the rent” sound like a cool choice rather than a grim necessity.

Sounds like someone is just bitter because they can’t be arsed to get a side hustle to improve their financial situation

Sounds like someone is losing all her friends by unsuccessfully trying to flog them overpriced lip gloss and the chance to be a boss babe

Fiddlesticks inbox me hun. XOXO

It's the terminology we're slagging off, not the actual fact of working a second job. Some people's reading comprehension is abysmal!

@Cinammoncake what expression do you prefer instead of side hustle?

Moonlighting! :D

what expression do you prefer instead of side hustle?

In the case of MLM either scam or Ponzi scheme would work. Ripoing my friends off at a push.

@snog I'd suggest moonlighting, or second job. People have been doing this sort of thing since time immemorial, there are plenty of words for it.

@MerryShitmas I WILL steal that line at some point.

Never head this & I work with achingly trendy hipsters half my age. Hustle has illegal connotations to me.

See my main job is freelancing, working from home, various income streams because I have various clients.

I'm not "hustling". I'm working. Just like anyone else who leaves the house ans does a similar job from an office.

I do airbnb and match betting. As long as I stay under 7.5k per year (I make sure I do) for airbnb I’m legal. The 8k I earned last year from match betting is tax free because I’ve won the money.

An extra 15.5k tax free per year from side hustles? What’s not to like about it.

Oh for crying out loud, does someone really have to repeat this?

IT IS THE PHRASE WHICH IS ANNOYING

There is nothing to dislike about extra money. It's the words some people use to describe the earning of this extra money which others dislike.

Anyway, I've learnt something new today. There is definitely something infinitely more annoying than the phrase 's h**'. People who don't RTFT before commenting.

An extra 15.5k tax free per year from side hustles? What’s not to like about it.

Its name. That's all. Nothing else. AirBnB isn't a hustle. You aren't Huggy Bear, Janice.