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Trying to “Hustle” with An Invisible Illness
When you want to be an entrepreneur super-star but have the energy of a slug.
For the past few years, it seems everyone keeps talking about The Hustle when they talk about being your own boss or starting a business, basically anything to do with being an entrepreneur.
I’m sick of hearing it. I’m also sick of being sick.
When you have an invisible illness, you don’t show outwards signs of illness, but inside, you feel like you’re dying, and on bad days you feel like a Zombie (you know, a dead person walking). I have Crohn’s Disease and quite a few Zombie days.
It takes me actual hustle just to get out of bed some days. It’s why I left my web developer career behind. Seriously, if I could hustle, I would be coding somewhere with a stable salary and benefits. Unfortunately, that life put me in the hospital for two weeks, where I almost died, then spent the next three months attempting to get out of bed.
Without the stress of being overworked and with the ability to sleep twelve hours a day, I have gotten my disease not under control but in a better place.
