Your Salary Is Cute — But What Else Do You Bring to the Table?
Let’s get one thing out of the way upfront:
Your salary is cute.
And before someone gets offended, relax , cute isn’t an insult.
Cute means it’s doing its little job. It’s trying.
It’s wearing a bow and showing up on payday like,
“Look! I helped!”
Meanwhile, Lawless is behind me absolutely losing her mind, yelling:
“HELPED WHAT? THE GAS BILL?”
Exactly.
A salary is not the villain.
It’s just not the whole story.
Some people treat their salary like it’s a personality trait.
Like having one predictable stream of income means they’re financially “set.”
Sis… even Rebel has more than one weapon.
You need options.
And yet the world keeps telling women, especially ambitious, chaotic, feral-hearted women, that having a job is enough.
That stability is the same as security.
That a paycheck is the same as power.
Spoiler: it’s not.
Power is mobility.
Power is options.
Power is having more coming in than they expect and more going out than they can track.
Power is being able to walk away, from a job, from a boss, from a situation , because you built something beyond the approved blueprint.
Power is refusing to let one stream, one company, one gatekeeper decide how big your life gets to be.
Lawless wipes off her crowbar and mutters:
“One income? That’s captivity.”
And she’s right.
(Unfortunately. She usually is, but don’t tell her that.)
💰Let’s talk about the table.
“Bringing something to the table” gets thrown around like it’s a competitive sport.
People talk about tables like they’re exclusive clubs.
But here’s the truth:
Most tables were not built for women like you.
You walk in and the whole damn thing wobbles.
Your personality alone knocks over three chairs.
Your ambition sets the tablecloth on fire.
Your identity fractures the legs.
Why?
Because you were never meant to fit at someone else’s table.
You were meant to build your own.
Your salary is what someone pays you to play small , to sit politely at their table and not ask for more space than they budgeted for.
But your skills, creativity, hustle, instincts, and feral brilliance?
Those are what YOU bring to the table you build.
And that table?
It’s bigger.
Heavier.
Stronger.
Less likely to crumble under your weight.
Lawless kicks a chair aside:
“Your table. Your rules. Your revenue.”
💰A salary is structure. But structure isn’t freedom.
A salary is a foundation , not a finish line.
It’s a starting point.
A stabilizer.
It keeps the lights on while you build your empire, not instead of building it.
Your salary pays you for what they need.
Your side hustles, investments, flips, and feral money moves?
Those pay you for who you are.
And who you are is someone who:
- doesn’t wait for permission
- doesn’t rely on one stream of anything
- doesn’t let someone else’s budget define her potential
- doesn’t confuse stability with success
- doesn’t apologize for wanting more than “enough”
💰One income in this economy? Bold of you to assume.
Your ancestors hunted with multiple weapons.
You think they would’ve gone into the forest with just one spear?
Absolutely not.
They would have taken five, a backup, and a rage-fueled attitude.
Meanwhile, Lawless is out back casually dual-wielding a wrench and a crowbar while yelling:
“MULTIPLE STREAMS MEANS YOU DON’T DROWN.”
Exactly.
You cannot rely on one fragile branch to carry the weight of an entire life.
You need:
- a main income
- a side income
- a passive income
- an emergency income
- a “just in case Lawless burns something down” income
Not because you’re greedy.
But, because you’re prepared.
💰Women with ambition need more than one outlet.
Reality check:
Ambitious women are never satisfied with one title, one job, one lane, one stream.
It’s not that we’re inconsistent ,
it’s that we are too dynamic to be caged by a single paycheck.
You were not born to pick “one thing” and call it your whole life.
You were born to:
- build
- create
- flip
- invest
- scale
- reinvent
- repeat
Every version of you has money potential.
Even your chaos has ROI.
Lawless shouts across the room:
“IF SHE CAN’T MONETIZE IT, SHE WILL WEAPONIZE IT.”
Fair.
💰Your salary shows your role.
Your side hustles show your range.
Your salary says,
“I can do this job.”
Your other income streams say,
“I can do anything else I feel like doing.”
That’s identity.
That’s power.
That’s financial evolution.
You are not a one-lane creature.
You are a whole ecosystem moving through the world with claws, ideas, skills, and instincts.
Your salary funds survival.
Your additional streams fund expansion.
💰When you build multiple streams, you stop asking.
You start choosing.
A salary makes you comfortable.
Multiple streams make you sovereign.
You get to choose:
- how you work
- when you work
- who you work with
- what you tolerate
- what you walk away from
- what you build next
Choice is the real wealth.
Lawless throws her wrench and cackles:
“CHOICE IS A WEAPON. USE IT.”
Because here’s the truth:
Your employer will never pay you enough to become who you want to be.
Your salary was priced at what THEY need,
not at what you’re capable of creating.
Your power lies in what you build outside those hours.
In what you dream up after work.
In what you invest, flip, or grind on the weekends.
In the extra income streams you shape from nothing but grit and vision.
Because you are not meant to rely on the structure someone else built.
You are meant to build your own.
So yeah — your salary is cute.
But what else do you bring to the table?
Because the answer for you is:
Everything.
Your skills.
Your art.
Your chaos.
Your discipline.
Your identity.
Your vision.
Your character universe.
Your flips.
Your trading.
Your side hustles.
Your brand.
Your growth.
Your intelligence.
Your adaptability.
Your fire.
You don’t bring one thing to the table.
You bring the whole kitchen.
And if the table can’t hold you?
Lawless shrugs like it’s obvious:
“Then build a bigger table.”
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