Emily Blunt’s advice for girls unhappy with their jobs
Posted by hairtie1
Emily Blunt’s advice for girls unhappy with their jobs
Posted by hairtie1
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Girl, I get where you’re coming from, I really do, but we need to eat.
Great advice, just don’t eat and live in a cardboard box!
I’ve had a shitty job that paid a lot, a and a great job that was in the field I adored, and by god barely being able to afford rent/mortage payments later on made me kinda start resenting the great job. Brilliant advice for people who already have money, bad advice for people who don’t
Well that’s everyone working sorted then. Next week Emily tells the world how to live in peace.
Girl come on
Maslow’s hierarchy, Emily.
✨Just eat air✨
This is awfully ‘let them eat cake’ of her.
In this economy?!
Says a woman born to wealth who’s never worked a day in her life
Sure, you’ll be ecstatic up until you lose consciousness from starvation.
Spoken like a rich person. “Have you tried not being poor?”
Did you notice only the wealthy have made the “do what you love!! It doesn’t matter if it pays like shit!!” Statement? I’ve never heard a person scraping by say this. Ever.
Tbf, there’s nothing she could have said here that would have been taken well. No one is going to the rich and famous for realistic career advice.
Did she grow up wealthy? This is the kind of thing you say when you grow up wealthy and never have to work to actually survive.
We need to tax these people until there is no millionaire class.
Yeah my utilities company wants their money regardless of my happiness
They can’t really be this cluelees can they??…..can they???? 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠
She must come from a country that has free healthcare ..
Celebrities should refrain from giving advice on how we “peasants” should live. Go enjoy your millions and shut up.
rich people are so out touch with reality even their attempts to be relatable read as incredibly tone deaf and sad.
Doesn’t hit the same coming from a wealthy person, sorry.
I totally did this by the way and yes, I’m happier. Poor but happy!
Advice that can only come from someone whos never had to pay rent
I think the best advice I’ve seen on this topic is from Cal Newport in So Good They Can’t Ignore You – essentially, he recommends finding the thing that you can tolerate even the worst parts of.
He also suggests starting by thinking of the lifestyle you want and working backwards from there, but I’m not sure that’s even possible in this economy. The book is 14 years old. It seems these days, you get what you get.
Doing “something I love” as my first job left me hungry and struggling, vs now where I put up with a corporate gig for 40-45 hours a week so I can actually enjoy my life outside of work. It is a difference between being at work 50 hours a week and not having money to go to the movies vs being at work 40 hours a week and having the money to go to the movies on my day off.
It is a no brainer to me to work my corporate job I don’t enjoy where I can support myself, pay a mortgage, and support my family.
Easy for her to fuckin say
Dude these people are so tone deaf. It’s really annoying.
If this is a real and accurate comment, it’s genuinely so odd how wealthy people understand so little about money. Like, what are you talking about?? It’s rent, Michael, what could it cost, $10 and a dream?
In my twenties, I had a job that I loved in an industry that I loved. The company I worked for was a small indie publishing house. They were not exploitative but they literally could not pay me a living wage. They tried to make up for the lack of pay with other benefits, and it was a generally lovely place to work, but in the end they could not pay me a living wage and I had to quit. I was doing something that I truly loved, working with good people, and I felt it was deeply part of my identity, but I was not happy because I could not afford to live. I could not pay my bills and I went into debt that I still have.
I know that actors and actresses like her are usually not of the ownership class. But people who have wealth to the point where they don’t have to ever worry about money are *so idiotic about money.*
Omg, why didn’t I think of doing something I LIKE to do! Thanks Emily!
I would live to sit in a room full of golden retriever puppies petting them.
but I will lose my house and my cars, my wife will divorce me, and I’ll starve to death.
Thanks Emily, I will dip into my millions like you do and just be happy
Look she’s a fantastic actor but she grew up in London private schools as the child of an actress and a lawyer. She’s a bit out of touch on the struggles of regular folk.
In fairness to her there is no way at all she could give a reasonable answer to that question. She is getting slated either way but yeah she is right, you should absolutely quit a job you hate. The toll on your mental and physical health long term is too big and you will be replaced in that job within a week….employers don’t care about you at all. Just plan an exit strategy first
look, i’m neither a fan nor a foe of hers, but i refuse to believe this quote properly encapsulates what she meant.
what’s the context of it? did she follow this up with something? is there a video of her saying it? all important questions imo.
I will be downvoted but you guys are taking this response way too seriously… It was a silly off the cuff remark to a bad question