Reclaim Your Autonomy with Anti Work Girlboss
Welcome to the Anti Work Girlboss Substack, your guide to breaking free from the work-centric grind. Our mission is to empower you to redefine work, embrace true balance, and challenge the norms that keep us tethered to the traditional narrative.
Why subscribe?
In a world obsessed with hustle, we're here to offer an alternative—a way of working that prioritizes life over labor. We'll dismantle the myths of work culture and introduce you to a future where work serves your purpose and passion. From exploring the concept of 'Lazy Girl Jobs' to mastering work-life balance, we're here to equip you with the knowledge and opportunities to live on your terms. Whether you're seeking a side hustle or simply exhausted by the grind, you've found your community.
Meet Gabrielle - The Visionary Behind Anti Work Girlboss
Gabrielle isn't just another content creator—she's a catalyst for change. Her journey began with career advice, evolved into career coaching, and took a revolutionary turn when she introduced Lazy Girl Jobs. This shift sparked a movement, challenging the way we all think about work.
With over 10,000 world wide media mentions, Gabrielle's passion lies in questioning the work-centric narrative. What is meaningful work? What happens if one still wants to work but doesn’t want to climb the corporate ladder? These are the questions that fire her up. And this is exactly what she discusses in her spiciest TikToks!
Each day, Gabrielle dedicates to analyzing and illuminating the evolving landscape of the future workplace. Her mission is not only to entertain but also to educate you, carving out a niche for generational change by championing the inclusion of Gen Z in employment settings. Depend on her to deliver a unique blend of pertinent career trends, opportunities, and insights, providing a perspective distinctively her own that you won't discover anywhere else.
Read Gabrielle’s 30U30 Nomination
Watch Gabrielle’s TEDx Talk, Should you Get a “Lazy Girl Job?”
Read Gabrielle’s contributor articles with Entrepreneur
A Note from Gabrielle ⬇
Anti Work Girlboss Mission
Solving every single world issue through our relationship with work? Why not.
“All of us” live and work in capitalism, a system profiting from our lack of autonomy.
Late-stage capitalism prioritizes shareholder value above all. Businesses must continually grow to benefit from the system, often at the expense of employees.
Meaningless jobs are packaged as career development, pressuring us to say “yes” to avoid “falling behind”—this is exploitative, coercive, and inhumane.
Workers are given a capitalist version of work-life balance—like taking your laptop home when sick or logging off to pick up kids but making up the hours later. It’s focused on work, not life.
Autonomy and career ideals vary; there’s no wrong answer—only a commitment to an autonomous mindset.
Work dominates our lives, consuming our waking hours. How we approach work affects everything. Improving our relationship with work improves our entire life.
Society agrees that employees shouldn’t have autonomy, but elites should. This gap must be closed.
Workplace wellness and self-help initiatives are distractions, creating an illusion of balance. Ethical pay and career development are the only effective solutions.
Autonomy isn’t encouraged in our system. It requires sacrificing the social contract and developing self-awareness that transcends cultural norms.
We live in a work-centered society when we could be work-optional, thanks to our innovations.
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion..” - Albert Camus
If we all consider work autonomy, and live with work autonomy, the culture will shift.
Paid vs Free
You can enjoy this Substack as a free and paid subscriber! Here is a lowdown of both experiences:
Free
Occasional only free articles.
A lot of articles with a free preview with the option to go paid for more of the article.
Can submit stories for the Work Whistleblowing show.
Chat access.
Paid
Everything in paid, plus more articles and content.
Access to Work Whistleblowing, a show where we deconstruct toxic workplaces.
Ability to comment on all posts.
My Thesis on Paying for Content
I pay for any creator/entertainer that I truly enjoy and resonate with. Whether I am paying for their Substack, Patreon, merch, etc… it’s a way that I feel I can contribute my gratitude for their commitment to what they do. Even if I am not watching every piece of paid content, it is still important to me to keep that subscription on.
Creators offer a lot of free content. So there is never the need to pay for content as a viewer. But when we only offer free content, we are at the hands of the algorithms. of TikTok, Instagram, etc... So sometimes we are not always able to post what we truly enjoy whether it’s because of censorship, engagement, sponsors, and many other factors that go into being a full time creator.
Sometimes we want to be able to post more authentic content and want the privacy of our paid community. It is sometimes difficult to constantly get the feedback of the entire public instead of just the people we truly enjoy. Especially on content we deeply care about.
Also, having paid content, allows us to offer more free content. And just more content in general. Full time creators can face the “starving artist” phenomena where we need to feel financially stable to create but we need to create to receive finances to feel stable. It’s a paradox we juggle 24/7.
Regardless of what side you choose, you are a valuable contributor to this Substack and the greater Anti Work movement. I felt it was important to call out why there is a paid side because there is always a pattern of a small set of audiences who get resentful at paid content. If we only offered paid content with no sponsorships or paywalls, there would be no content available at all to enjoy. I am an independent creator who does not need to censor myself for any brands, agencies, employers, etc… which allows me to create content around the ideas that you love!
Xoxo,
Gabrielle
