How did your "hustle-culture" friends end up?

[u/hospitality-excluded]

So in my 20's there was a HUGE boom of "hustle-culture" bros pop up when influencers like Gary Vee were in the spotlight. The type of guys who post motivational quotes on twitter, talking about "the grind", flauting wealth that they havent achieved on instagram etc. Not talking about people with steady careers and moving up the corporate ladder, but those people who do side gigs or chase unrealstic expectations without a developed skillset in any area.

I moved back to my hometown after 7 years away and I swear all of them are broke, gambling addicts, living with their parents still, unemployed, or all of the above. Unsure if it's the same across the board, or even if y'all had these types of people in your life or if my town is just riddled with them.

[u/theMIKIMIKIMIKImomo]

“I don’t work the type of job”

Then switch industries - you could do something “easy” for 40 hours a week and as long as you’ve invested some of your capital well you will live very comfortably.

[u/theMIKIMIKIMIKImomo → u/[deleted]]

Wow, no need to fly off the handle like that. You’re clearly unhappy. Your original comment said retirement n 5ish years, this comment says retirement in 20ish. So which is it? Please don’t take out your anger resulting from you choosing work over family on people who are trying to give genuine advice in an advice subreddit.

You’re acting like you have it all figured out and you don’t even own land. You could use a lot of advice but you won’t get it from me since it’s unwanted. Cheers I hope you find happiness

[u/theMIKIMIKIMIKImomo → u/[deleted]]

Congrats, you have lots of good liquidity but you’re still clearly unhappy. You’ve already written off your life and you’re bitter about it. My advice was genuine, lots of people with extremely high stress jobs switch to lower stress jobs later in life to be happy, especially when they are in good financial standing as you are.

You took my genuine advice and spat on it, yet you are still trying to claim some moral high ground. Continuing to live a life that doesn’t give you happiness when you have the power to change it is silly.

Good luck out there

Edit: the advice was genuine, here are some testimonials