Your 6-12 AM Side Hustle Definitely Isn’t “Hustle Culture”

Good luck getting anywhere in life doing the bare minimum.

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I accidentally pissed off the internet.

I wrote a simple article called “Your 9-5 Pays the Bills. Your 6-12 Builds You F*ck You Money.” The crazies came out to play.

Let’s dissect the point of after hours work so you don’t burn out, and access the incredible benefits of online pursuits.

You don’t work 6-12, 7 days a week. OMG.

As soon as the hustle culture mob sees 6-12 their fragile minds miss the point. Obviously you don’t work 6-12 every day forever.

That’s how you burn out.

6-12 is a window of time where you can work on a side hustle and build a second income stream. It’s a time slot many people, including me for most of my career, can work on a project.

Not once in my article did I say work 6 hours every day when you get home from work. We’re not robots. We need rest. The truth is the 6-12 time slot gets too easily filled with Netflix which won’t move your life forward.

And don’t worry, I’m guilty too. I don’t get this after hours formula right every day either. The formula isn’t a prison sentence — it’s a guide.