{"id":7822,"date":"2019-04-07T23:46:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T23:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7822"},"modified":"2019-04-07T23:46:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T23:46:23","slug":"opinion-the-con-of-the-side-hustle-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/07\/opinion-the-con-of-the-side-hustle-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion &#124; The Con of the Side Hustle &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">The \u201cside hustle\u201d is one of a growing roster of trendy corporatized idioms, like ordinary household appliances that are now \u201csmart\u201d or plain vanilla businessmen and women remade into the more exotic \u201centrepreneurs.\u201d Our jobs are now \u201cflexible,\u201d although we are the ones contorting ourselves to work at all hours, or we are professionally \u201cnimble\u201d because we are trying to survive on freelance gigs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Ultimately, like so much of this lexicon, the \u201cside hustle\u201d describes the overworked outsiders to privilege, who are forced into informal vocations by the absence of a legitimate economy. They are then told that suffering is valiant and also groovy. In a recent viral\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/annehelenpetersen\/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BuzzFeed piece<\/a>\u00a0describing millennials as the \u201cburnout generation,\u201d side hustles are listed as one of the main culprits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/06\/opinion\/sunday\/tax-day-side-hustle.html?em_pos=large&amp;emc=edit_owr_20190407&amp;nl=weekend-reads&amp;nlid=53464908dit_owr_20190407&amp;ref=headline&amp;te=1\">Opinion | The Con of the Side Hustle &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cside hustle\u201d is one of a growing roster of trendy corporatized idioms, like ordinary household appliances that are now \u201csmart\u201d or plain vanilla businessmen and women remade into the more exotic \u201centrepreneurs.\u201d Our jobs are now \u201cflexible,\u201d although we are the ones contorting ourselves to work at all hours, or we are professionally \u201cnimble\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/07\/opinion-the-con-of-the-side-hustle-the-new-york-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opinion &#124; The Con of the Side Hustle &#8211; The New York Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}