The Devil Wears Prada - Emily and a History of Workaholics

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I once had a job where I once came in late and my instinct was to apologize and let my boss know that I drove as quickly as I could. To my surprise, my boss told me to just call in and to never put myself in danger for any job by doing things like speeding. She reminded me that I only have one life and a company, in the very end, can always find a replacement when you're dead. No job is worth your life.

She was never happy. Never satisfied. Never recognized. And she sacrificed so much. It's like being in an abusive relationship..

The Emily that should be in Paris.

Advice I was once given: If you have to push yourself to the edge to give your best, it's not your best. If you stretch a rubber band far enough that it looks like it's about to snap, you don't think "That's good and sturdy", you think "That's not going to last"

you can spend 25 years working at a job missing important dates family etc but when you get fired or die u will be remembered for 2days and replaced.

I love that people are now discussing how toxic telling people they should pick a "dream job" and once they have it they should be proud of spending all their time on it. You work to live you shouldnt feel like you need to live for work

The older generation complains that millennials aren't hard workers and they think that everything should be handed to them. Yet, THEY put millennials in a worse economic climate than before. Many Millennials work multiple jobs because their pay is so little that it doesn't even keep up with the price of living. Millennials are poorer than their parents AT THE SAME AGE. Millennials started pointing out issues with the world and ACTUALLY got off their butts to do something about it (i.e all the current social movements). Yet, millennials are described as "complainers" and "sensitive". More millennials have gone to school than the other earlier generations ever have ESPECIALLY because many of our parents told us/harped on us that the key to success is college. Yet, that same generation doesn't want to hire us and thinks we are "greedy" or "pretentious" because we want higher starting off pay to combat the enormous debt we racked up in college. Plus, they think a degree means absolute shit because "what do we know? We don't have any experience!" Yet, millennials are constantly joked as being the worst generation and that we deserve to get a good swift kick in the butt!

That study showing ‘women’s success in the workplace is penalized at home’ with less housework being done is so sad. That’s not a partnership 😔

My job is absolutely the tech office that romanticises work and tries to make the space 'fun' and 'liveable' without actually paying us a decent salary of give us time off. I'd rather earn an extra 3k a year than all those free meals and parties my office throws, so at least then I can decide where I'm going to eat or party with my own money.

I tried working a job I loved. They took advantage of my passion for the field, worked me to the bone, underpaid with no benefits, and the second I got sick I was fired. Now I work a job that's much more relaxed in a totally different field and after the first few times of being in near panic attacks having to call out, I relaxed and realized that I had paid vacation paid and sick leave, and everyone's attitude is currently "it's just a job, not your life." I really can't explain how fucking relaxing that is

Great video, but what about Nigel? I think that he fits in Emily's category too, even though he was nicer to Andy. By that point, he was working since he was really young, sacrificed his personal life and even what he liked, adored the magazine and respected Miranda. She acknowledged him too, but that didn't prevent her from stabbing him in the back. And he still stayed there. Maybe he was a workaholic with true passion for the job, but in the end he was still miserable.

This movie introduced me to Emily Blunt and I've been a fan ever since. Somehow, in a twisted way, I think she was the most fun character in the whole movie :)

Can’t wait for the movie about the millennial workaholic simultaneously hustling multiple temporary contract gigs while earning zero employee benefits or respect.

"Modern American culture has a love affair with working yourself to the bone,: Japan: "Hold my beeru"

I adore how Emily represents the person Andy could have become had she stayed under Miranda's thumb at Runway. She puts all of her blood, sweat and tears into pleasing Miranda, but never gets the recognition she desperately craves. Andy almost follows the same road as Emily, but instead opts to quit, and pursue her real passion of being a writer. ☺📝

Yes, BOUNDARIES! I used to be like Emily. In it 110%, always working overtime... ALWAYS ready to throw my plans/my life out the window as soon as I was needed. I came to my senses when I was going through a difficult time and was 10 minutes late two days in a row and my boss took me aside to berate me - I had also worked 4 hours overtime every day that whole month without getting a "thank you" or paid for that matter. My approach to work was unhealthy, dissatisfying and in the end unappreciated. I used to look down on the people who would start packing their things 5 minutes before their workday ended - now I get them. MY time has value and I no longer "live to work".

I wish that whole "9 to 5" mentality was still a thing in the states. Every job I've had since leaving college in 2011 has been pretty much 8:30 - 6 or 7ish and add in that you're never allowed to sign offline because you're always checking emails at night. I've even had jobs as a PA that had me working 80 to 90 hours a week. The work culture in America is so toxic and backwards.

During college, so many people used to give us pep talks about "finding your passion". I thought I was meant to find the job that energized me, that made me want to jump out of bed in the morning, that made me giddy with joy all the time. That's why I kept thinking I needed to switch majors and keep trying different options because nothing was making me feel the way I was supposed to feel. Until I finally graduated with no job and then took whatever job I could, found it was fine, found that I could have a life, and realized I didn't need to find passion - just needed to find something I could live with.

My mom quit working to raise me and my siblings. She is very smart and driven, has a masters degree, and constantly volunteers, so one day when I was young, I asked her why she decided to quit her job when she could have been very successful. She told me “no one lies on their deathbed thinking “damn, I should have worked more”, but many, many people, lie there and think “I should have spent more time with the people I loved.”’ It really put things into perspective for me