The Curse of Hustle Culture!
As I look back at my professional life so far, all twenty years of it, there’s been one underlying if somewhat unspoken expectation that underpinned all of it. That is that you should work as hard as you possibly can, not just in your day job, but that you should ideally also have at least one side gig to be successful, one that you invest just as much energy and time into as in your day job. Sleep, recreation, a social life, pastimes, all these are seen at best as unwelcome distractions or weaknesses, and at best as equally unwelcome necessities to get inspiration and energy for your job. Thankfully, this mindset didn’t extend within my family, back when I still had a family, but still, it was always present in many of my jobs. This attitude has a name, “Hustle Culture”. This term refers to a mindset that extols hard work to the detriment of all other aspects of life in order to “make it big” as early as possible, whether that’s by quickly rising up the career ladder or rapidly a...