Photo: Zoe Wynns | By Charissa Cheong, Business Insider / Yahoo | As the conversation around young people’s attitude to work continues spark debate online, one Gen Zer is leaning into the stereotype around her generation, and using it to her advantage.
Zoe Wynns, a musician who is 20 years old, according to a November 2023 interview on the e-books website Smashwords, shared a video on Instagram in October where she said she “cannot do a 9-to-5.”
“I know this is going to sound spoiled. I know this is going to sound like some artsy creative who just doesn’t want to put in the hard work and hours but I physically do not think I can do it,” she said in the clip.
“I start to cry if I have like three non-creative tasks to do in a day and imagining doing eight hours a day of something that I don’t really love for the rest of my life…” she continued.
Wynns then began promoting her music, seemingly viewing this career path as an avenue to avoiding the 9-to-5 schedule.
“I heard this quote in a show once and it said ‘people like us can’t live normal lives. If we try, it kills us,’ and honestly, I am throwing myself into that category, cause I think I will simply die,” she said, before asking people to stream her songs.
Wynns, who is currently studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, according to LinkedIn, has a small following of just over 2,500 on Instagram. Her October video received a relatively high level of attention from online users in comparison to her other posts, garnering over 4,900 likes and 2,900 comments. The post was somewhat controversial, drawing in comments calling her “spoiled” for complaining about work.
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“It’s not the eight hours of a 9-to-5 that bother me — most weeks I work 80+ hours on my music and other pursuits. The point of my video was that I want to have a creative career, one that is focused on my passion for music and writing, and that the standard ‘9-to-5’ would not allow me that flexibility and time to work on what I love,” she wrote.
Wynns added: “I think people are calling this generation lazy because we’re the first ones to take a good step back and look at the system and say, ‘Hey. This shouldn’t have to be the path everyone takes!’ and doing everything we can to break out and build our own non-traditional lives.”
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Read the rest of Zoe’s reasonings here (might account for why we have so many home-less people):
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/gen-z-musician-pleading-people-162549114.html
Photo: Zoe Wynns | From her Facebook page
A Gen Z Musician is Pleading With People to Stream Her Music as She Can’t Imagine Having to Work a 9-to-5 Job
