23 Girlboss Memes for Working Gals Staring the Week With an Iced Coffee and a Dream

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Apr 15, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Working girls live and breathe by the motto, 'These bills aren't going to pay themselves!'

Cursed to have luxurious tastes on a working girl's budget, many females in the workplace are faced with a perplexing dilemma of self before the start of every pay period. We wonder if we wasted our 20s trying to build a career instead of floating in the Mediterranean on a billionaire's boat in a 'high fashion' bikini. Alas, instead of a perfect tan and a Pilates membership, we have coworker drama, 1000 unread emails, and a leadership role at our place of work. So while we reminisce on the vacations we didn't take, clocking in for another work week, remember this, my fellow working women—you are strong and independent. Most importantly, you're unironically self-reliant; you have your own place, your own car, and live by your own rules.

And if the price of this freedom is a 40-hour work week, so be it! Get yourself a little coffee treat this afternoon and barrel right into those office doors. You're a tough-as-nails working lady and you earned that $5 beverage.