I’m Trying Not To Let Hustle Culture Win

…Gotta stick with the whole ‘don’t overwork’ thing.

Cee R.
2 min readMay 23, 2023
The word ‘nope’ painted in white pain on wooden floorboards
Photo by Daniel Herron on Unsplash

I am not a patient person.

I want things done well, done right, and done yesterday.

So pacing myself is more than slightly challenging, especially when my default — and the attitude of many people, especially online — is to work harder, in order to get the results I want.

Newsflash: that doesn’t work.

Sorry, but it doesn’t. If it did, I’d be sitting pretty by now.

Ignore the hustle culture gurus and the SEO bros — they made their money from telling other people how to make money.

Working yourself ragged is in the interests of the extreme forms of Capitalism we see in some places — like in the world of content creation, side hustles, and the gig economy, for example. (Something a lot of people on Medium will be familiar with, I’m sure.)

This is the type of Capitalism that sells you on mansions and super-cars and excessive consumption, and tells you if you don’t have that it’s because of you, rather than the fault of a system built to distribute wealth to a tiny minority.

It’s simply not true.

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Cee R.
Cee R.

Written by Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr