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THE B-SIDE: Hustle Smarter

Gen X: The Last Generation of Bad Decisions

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Liam McEneaney
Aug 07, 2025
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I’m so happy with the people who have been finding this Substack. I want to thank you all for the feedback and I’ll remind you that you can always leave a comment below.

Hustle Smarter is part of a reclamation project I’ve started, going through my old blog from the mid-to-late 2000s and turning all of those first drafts into final pieces of humor.

I had announced this project earlier this year, but I realized that I wasn’t giving myself the time to really work on these and make them right. Between screenwriting, my freelance work-for-hire schedule (and yes, I am for hire), my decision to write and submit stories for literary magazines, and everything else going on in my life, I wasn’t giving myself the time to do these pieces right.

At the end of the year, I shall release a volume (or possibly two): The McEneaney Anthology of Literature. What follows is an essay from this project.

This essay is from back in the day when we had no supervision, no phones, and just enough change for a war…

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