[void_mint]

I think you're being downvoted because, while yes "hustle mentality is a choice", it's also been propagandized and thrown at millions of people as a metric for success. To tell a 24 year old code school grad that "hustle mentality is a choice" ignores how easily that codeschool grad is getting dismissed from employment opportunities in favor of people that gladly throw their entire life away to land a job. Lots of people just want the "well paid mundane job" you're suggesting is "ok" to have.

[wayoutthere]

I’ve come to learn that creating the appearance of hustle while actually not doing that much work is the route to go. You have to be a ruthless self-promoter for it to be effective but it’s easy to just pretend to be busy all the time and talk up the very few things you do achieve. I’ve built a 20-year career from this, so I don’t believe it has a limited runway. I plan on riding this lazy train all the way to an exec role (director now so I don’t actually do much other than delegate anyway).

The whole thing is a fucking scam in the end. Hard work doesn’t pay off — pretty much every working-class person works 10x harder than me for 1/10 of the pay. The lazy person who can bullshit really well is always going to make more and burn out less.