Daily Inspiration Quote by Jessica Cutler

There’s a particular kind of late-capitalist bravado in “If you don’t like or care about your job, what’s the big deal? I am so over it”: the performance of detachment as self-defense. Cutler isn’t arguing that work is unimportant so much as daring you to admit you’re trapped in the idea that it should matter. The casual phrasing and the shruggy “what’s the big deal?” weaponize nonchalance. It’s not a manifesto; it’s a coping mechanism dressed up as a punchline.

The subtext is less “quit your job” than “stop letting your job own your mood.” That reads especially sharp coming from a celebrity, a class of worker whose labor is constantly moralized and surveilled. For public figures, “caring” is part of the product: you’re supposed to be hungry, grateful, endlessly striving. Saying “I am so over it” rejects that script and, intentionally or not, punctures the cultural religion of passion-as-virtue.

Context matters because the line sits at the intersection of burnout culture and the commodification of authenticity. It echoes a generational pivot from career-as-identity toward something closer to career-as-transaction, a stance that can be liberating or nihilistic depending on who’s speaking and who’s listening. Coming from someone with a safety net, it can sound glib. Coming from someone exhausted, it lands like permission.

It works because it’s blunt enough to feel honest, yet vague enough to be projected onto: dead-end jobs, toxic bosses, the pressure to “do what you love.” The quote doesn’t solve any of that. It simply refuses to sanctify it.