Welcome back rich girls and boys to the Money with Kitty Show.

I'm your host Katie Getty-Tossan and today we are going to talk about something that started

with good intent but has almost surely gone too far.

The demonization of the 9-5.

The glorification of the multifaceted side hustler and the work for yourself revolution

with all of the flexibility and independence and often ignored frenetic context switching

and accompanying insecurity.

I saw a medium article the other day about a woman who wrote about her 9 sources of income

in lieu of a 9-5 job that really ran the gamut and I couldn't help but find myself

feeling anxiety on her behalf as I read about her schedule because it wasn't a collection

of passive or semi-passive sources of income, it was stuff like reselling my clothes and

teaching group fitness classes, incredibly active tasks that take time planning for thought

you name it, something that I can verify personally since I have done both of those things

for money in the past and of course it is possible that she just loves all of these things,

all nine of these things and has built an efficient system for including all of them in her

schedule in a way that's manageable but I couldn't help but think, Jesus Christ, that is a lot

of context switching for any given week and she didn't outright say it but I got the impression

by the way she was writing about it that her collection of side hustles cumulatively made

than her full-time job did by the way she discussed the trade-offs between you know working

her job and quitting it now doing this so it wasn't like this abundance of context switching and

variety seemed to be generating either excess ease or excess income in her life and again

that's not a problem but if you are quitting your full-time job to do a small collection of other

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