{"id":6920,"date":"2026-05-22T07:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6920"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:37:28","slug":"founder-of-ms-anti-work-says-her-lazy-girl-job-allowed-her-to-only-work-a-few-hours-a-day-and-she-built-her-media-company-on-the-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6920","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Ms. Anti Work says her \u2018lazy girl job\u2019 allowed her to only work a few hours a day\u2014and she built her media company on the side"},"content":{"rendered":"

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America is famed for its workaholic, career-centered culture where dedication to a job is worn as a badge of honor. However, young professionals have been pushing back against the grind by embracing a softer approach with trends like the \u201clazy girl\u201d or \u201csnail girl\u201d jobs: white-collar gigs with a favorable work-life balance. Gabrielle Judge, a content creator known as \u201cMs. Anti Work,\u201d popularized the former term in 2023. And opting for a low-energy gig allowed her to build her own media company.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLazy girl jobs came from The Great Resignation era,\u201d Judge recently said onstage at Fortune\u2019s Workplace Innovation Summit. \u201cI\u2019m a huge high achiever, I\u2019m a huge workaholic\u2026and I didn\u2019t have a lot of balance. So what was really hard for me was to get a \u2018lazy girl job,\u2019 which was still a really good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Judge experienced was part of a larger phenomenon. Disillusioned with their jobs in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown, tens of millions of workers voluntarily left their roles in search of greener pastures. And during the pandemic years\u2014when employers went on aggressive hiring sprees\u2014professionals enjoyed a greater sense of power in the labor market. In the \u201cGreat Resignation\u201d era, talent knew they could bargain for better wages, benefits, and work-life balance; remote life also meant increased comfort, clocking in from the couch. One year following the wave of professionals ditching their gigs, Judge took her idea of the \u201clazy girl job\u201d to the internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And young workers like her are increasingly trading the corporate ladder for the founder\u2019s chair. Around 62% of Gen Zers either already run their own businesses or plan to in the future\u2014more than any other generation\u2014according to a 2020 survey from WP Engine. And the entrepreneurial pull extends well beyond new grads: 2024 research from software firm Intuit found that nearly two-thirds of 18- to 35-year-olds have either launched a side hustle or intend to, with close to half citing the desire to be their own boss as their main driver.<\/p>\n

From corporate hustle to Ms. Anti Work<\/p>\n

After several years navigating corporate America, Judge decided to scale back and make a lateral move, joining Wix as an account manager. This time, she could get her job responsibilities done in just \u201ctwo to four hours a day\u201d while building her media company, Ms. Anti Work, on the side. After nearly two years at the tech business, she called it quits; since 2023, the now-29-year-old has been independently scaling a brand that helps others decenter the 9-to-5 hustle from their lives. The entrepreneur runs a Substack with over 16,000 subscribers, led a TEDx talk on her work philosophy, and sells resources she calls \u201cThe Lazy Girl Career System.\u201d<\/p>\n

The career influencer admits that lazy girl jobs have a \u201ctime and a place,\u201d depending on the situation or company. And Judge even says she is unsure whether she would advise an entry-level professional to take a low-effort role as employers ramp up their expectations of staffers. However, lazy girl jobs might be the right fit for workers who don\u2019t want to join the corporate rat race\u2014and others could take on the gig as a stepping stone to their true passion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people get lazy girl jobs because they\u2019re not careerists and they just want work-life balance,\u201d Judge continued. \u201cSome get them because they\u2019re like me, where they\u2019re like, \u2018Okay, I don\u2019t have the means or the funds to do my own thing yet, but I want to try it out in a low-risk way\u2014kind of part-time\u2014while I do something else.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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