Mastodawn

JA Westenberg Feb 10, 2024

When I was in my early 20’s, I hustled my ass off. I worked 2 jobs and a side hustle. I drank 8 cups of coffee a day and popped No Doz pills to work at night.

And then I burned the fuck out. And crashed hard.
And it wasn’t worth it.

There’s a lot of folks who will tell you: “grind to the point of exhaustion. Chase wealth and rest later. Make work your only religion.”

That advice is poison. It will leave you broken and hurt and tired and alone.

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@Daojoan I realized how pointless and destructive it was when I did a census & had to take actual stock of the number of hours, abuse & stress from day job that was poverty wages & underpaid for the skills plus the work that was to do self employment and side hustle to hopefully escape the day job, & help pay bills…I realized I had been working 88 hours a week for 10 years with NO increase in quality of life…in fact the harder I worked, I made less and less and was able to afford less and less.