Guys, if you’re over 40 years old and you want to keep your 9to5 job, please do me a favor: keep it and feel no shame, feel no regrets for keeping and holding onto your 9to5.
Guys, what is this thing nowadays where everybody seems to have a problem with a 9to5 job? They Question about job vs side hustle in 2024 & which is best?
Why do people tend to have this issue with 9to5 jobs, like there’s something wrong with them?
Let me know what you think about it in the comments below.
Benefits Of Jobs
I think that 9to5s are getting a bad rap nowadays and in my opinion, there ain’t nothing wrong at all with having a 9to5 job if that’s what you want to have.
The key, though, is to make sure that you have that 9to5 job but that the job doesn’t have you.
In other words, you’re not so tied to the job that you can’t do any self-improving.
You’re not so tied to the job that you’re exhausted when you come home and you have no time for anything else but that 9to5.
Don’t get so stressed out at the 9to5, right? Have the 9to5, just don’t let the 9to5 job have you.
But if you want to have 1, have 1.
There’s nothing wrong with having a job.
Just keep some things in mind as you have that job.
One, keep this in mind: you are more than your job, right?
Don’t get your self-esteem based on whether or not you get that promotion or whether or not you get that bonus, right?
Don’t have your whole being, who you are, and your self-esteem and your whole presence about yourself wrapped up into a job.
You don’t want that, right? You don’t want everything you are walking this planet to be wrapped into your job.
Even if you don’t get that bonus or don’t get that promotion, you’re still important, you still matter. Hold your head up, keep going, work hard on your job. I want you to work hard on your 9-to-5. Have your 9-to-5.
Nothing wrong with a job, but you also gotta make sure that you spend some time working on you, working on yourself. I don’t care if it’s 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. or if it’s 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., whatever it may be, spend some time working on yourself.
In other words, work just as hard, if not harder, on you than you work on your job.
Now, that may sound bad, but listen, so many people get so burned out on their jobs, right? And that’s why people say,
“I don’t want the 9-to-5.”
Listen, the alternative to a 9to5 is not much better. If you went to work for yourself, you’re still gonna be working super-duper hard and more than 40 hours a week, maybe 80 hours a week, right?
But the point is, I want you to spend some time working on you so you can get some fulfillment and some growth out of your time too many people put 40 plus hours in at the job and put 0 time into themselves, into who they are.
Listen, have the 9-to-5, but just make sure the job is not your life. You have a life outside of the job, a little bit of balance. Right? Now for some people.
Benefits Of side Hustles
For some people, you say,
“hey I want a side hustle”
and a lot of people nowadays want a side hustle, extra income, nothing at all wrong with a side hustle.
I’m all for side hustles, working on something to build something for yourself.
I’m all about that too, right? Whether it’s working on your side hustle, your side gig, working extra hours doing something on building your own business, whatever it may be, it could be just working on your personal finances, right? Working on building up your wealth-building habits, whatever it may be, I want you to work on yourself as well.
Why people hate on jobs?
With that, let’s just be real right now, you have so many internet gurus telling people, telling everybody, leave your job, forget about your job, don’t work a job, never work a job, right? Just Google it, right? Or put it in on YouTube search and you’ll see so many people telling you, quit your job, leave your job, your job is just overworking you, right?
Down-talking a job, down-talking a 9to5 as if a 9to5 is somehow some huge crazy bad dumb idea. It’s not.
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Should you quit?
A regular 9to5 really has some advantages for real. I just want us to kind of get out of this mindset that a 9to5 job is somehow inherently wrong or inherently bad for you. It’s really not.
My advice to you is I wouldn’t quit my job until I really knew that what I was doing on the side was going to supplement my income and some of those fringe benefits that you get from your job as well.
Again, I want you to do a side hustle, but I want you to leave your job, right? We hear so many stories about oh I’m a 6-figure earner and I quit my job last week so I could go be my own boss, right? We hear and see so many stories about that, and if you do that and you’ve done that, that’s cool, but that’s not for everybody.
Some people just like the security of having a job, the security of the regular pay that’s coming in every 2 weeks or every week or every month.
You got to be careful to not just quit your job because some internet guru swept you off your feet with their video on YouTube.
Look, everybody doesn’t have to be an entrepreneur.
If you want to be an entrepreneur, great, more options, go for it. If you don’t want to be an entrepreneur and you don’t want a side hustle, that’s okay.
Everyone does not have to have an LLC to make it in this world.
Everyone does not have to be an S Corp or C Corp to make it in this world.
You can build wealth, you can have a wonderful life, you can have control over your life and still work a 9-to-5. Because everyone doesn’t want to be an employer who has payroll, who pays workers, or who has their own business and now still works a job but works it for themselves.
Everybody doesn’t want to do that. And if you’re over 40 years old and you don’t want to do that, don’t feel the pressure that we see out here in these YouTube streets and in these Google streets and in these IG streets.
You don’t have to give in to that life.
Nothing at all is wrong with you having your 9to5 job.
If you have a job that you like, enjoy, or maybe even love, or perhaps you can just tolerate, there’s nothing wrong with it.
Keep it, hold on to it until you’re ready, if you ever get ready to quit that job and do your own thing on the side. But don’t rush it, and don’t feel the pressure. Just make sure that you still self-improve.
You still do the things before or after work that you want to do to improve yourself, and you don’t let that job have you. Although you have the job, don’t let the job stress you.
Although you still have the job, don’t let the job consume you after hours. You’re dreaming about your job, you don’t want to do that, because then the job has you. I want you to have that job.
Look, owning your own business is hard. It’s very hard. It’s tough. It takes a lot out of you mentally, with stress, whatever it may be. And it’s just not for everybody.
Life is not always just about how to get rid of a job.
Maybe life is about how do you feed a family, how do you feed children, and sometimes a job is the way you feed a family. It’s the way you put food on the table.
Don’t be shamed
There’s nothing wrong with that. Everybody’s situation is different. Take inventory of where you are and make a good decision for you. You may be happy with your situation. You may be happy with your job. You may be happy with your life.
That’s okay. For a lot of people, that’s all that matters. Just be careful not to let other people make you feel bad because they’re out living their best life, owning their business, and working from the beach, and you’re sitting in an office.
Don’t get caught up in IG, YouTube, and some of these social media platforms where all you see is a roll of highlights of people’s lives every single day, and you’re sitting at the office working. And you see these rolls of life.
All you’re getting is the ESPN highlights, and the ESPN highlights don’t show the whole game, don’t tell the whole story, don’t show the whole picture.
It just shows the highlights. And sometimes, guys, as workers at a job, we get that, we feel that. I totally understand it. But just don’t get caught up in it.
If you want to have your own side hustle, side gig, quit your job, go for it. I’m not mad at you.
More benefits of a job
There are some people that just like the health insurance that a job offers. They just like the dental insurance, right? They like the opportunity to be able to put towards their 401K while they work their job and let that money build up over time. They like that.
Some people enjoy that and they get comfort from that and don’t want to take the risk associated with a side hustle or with 2 side hustles or with quitting their job.
With a job, you have set hours, you have set responsibilities. When the clock hits 4:30, you leave. You don’t even have to think about it until you come back the next day.
I guarantee you, when you own your own business and you work in your side hustle, that ain’t the case because you’re going to be thinking about your side hustle at 10:00 at night, 12:00 at night, 6:00 a.m. in the morning.
You’re thinking about it all the time. When you have a side hustle, some people don’t want that pressure.
They want the stability of a 9 to 5.
They want the ability to go home at 4:30 and not have no worries and to go do something else to balance out their life.
They like that, and that’s okay.
Respect for side hustles and jobs
There’s nothing wrong with a 9to5 job. I’m cool with a 9to5 job. I have a 9 to5 job that I like and I enjoy, so I keep my 9to5. There are some people that don’t like it, they want to go full-time on YouTube, or they want to go full-time with both feet into their side hustle, side gig. That’s cool too.
Personal finance and decisions and choices that we make are all personal and should be respected.
If you want to go for that side hustle, I respect it. If you want to stay at your job, I respect that too.
If you want to work a job while you work a side hustle, that’s all gravy. I get it. I just don’t want to shame people because a job is somehow bad all of a sudden when we’ve had jobs for hundreds of years, right?
Thousands of years, humans have worked jobs, maybe not the same exact way that we work it today, but we’ve always had a means to go work, put food on the table, go work, provide shelter, go work, provide clothes on our back.
Everybody W and cannot and does not want to be an entrepreneur, and that’s perfectly okay.
So hey, if you’re over 40 years old, don’t feel the pressure of trying to quit your job to go work a side hustle or go be your own boss, right? You don’t have to do that.
Don’t feel the pressure of it, it’s not necessary. You should always be working on yourself, but listen, don’t be pressured, chill.
If you like your job, keep your job. This whole thing on the internet about
“quit my job, jobs are bad, I hate jobs, I don’t want a job, I want to work for myself, jobs are nothing, you’re dumb if you work a job,”
where did it come from? I don’t know, you tell me. I’ve seen it, I’ve heard it, I’ve read about it, but you tell me, drop me some comments below and let me know what you think about this whole notion that 9to5s are bad.
On this blog post, I hope I was just able to at least rant a little bit, right? Shed some light on this whole thing about jobs and the fact that jobs are okay. There’s nothing wrong with a 9to5 job.