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2021: Creating a Lexicon of Future
H is for Hustle
For many generations, the word hustle has had a negative connotation. It’s usually portrayed as a guy who comes into the scene with a plan to separate people from their money, think about Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason in the 1961 dramatic movie The Hustler
Sixty years later and hustle has a different meaning
The concept of a ‘side hustle’ has been part of the gig economy for over a decade, but it took the pandemic to make it part of the mainstream messaging:
A side hustle is any type of employment undertaken in addition to one’s full-time job. A side hustle is generally freelance or piecework in nature, providing a supplemental income. Side hustles are often things a person is passionate about, rather day a typical day job worked in order to make ends meet. ~ What is a Side Hustle?
Rather than being seen as a con job, it’s become a way to describe the work we do to not only pay the bills, but also express who else we are.
Many of us have been separated from the very human need for transformation as we focus on survival in a system that rewards transactions above all else.
Our hearts have been broken by the world, but the they just keep pumping those magical elements of faith, hope…
