Difficulty understanding なんないのも


> ほめられるために、あんなに努力しなきゃ **なんないのも** 大変だね  
>  In order to win praise, unless you put in great effort like that, ?????

The only way I can translate the end of the sentence is "not having hardship
is difficult" i.e "Unless you put in great effort it is difficult to win
praise without hardship". But this is a tautology. Great effort = hardship.
Have I got this completely wrong?

**Edit:** Thanks to Flaw's comment I now have that なきゃなんない is a contraction of
なければならない so I get "In order to win praise, the fact that one should put in
great effort like that is difficult. That still makes no sense to me. I guess
it's my translation of 大変 that's tripping me up somehow?




> 「ほめられるために、あんなに[努力]{どりょく} **しなきゃなんない** + **の** + も[大変]{たいへん}だね。」

As you said in Edit, 「しなきゃなんない」＝「しなければならない」. The former is Kanto colloquial
and the latter, Standard "dictionary" Japanese.

The 「の」 that follows is a nominalizer.

「大変」, in this context, means " ** _awful_** ", " ** _terrible_** ", etc. Your
TL of " ** _difficult_** " is off here.

> "It's awful having to put in such great effort in order to win praise."




> 「ほめられるために、あんなに[努力]{どりょく} **しなきゃなんない** + **の** + も[大変]{たいへん}だね。」

As you said in Edit, 「しなきゃなんない」＝「しなければならない」. The former is Kanto colloquial
and the latter, Standard "dictionary" Japanese.

The 「の」 that follows is a nominalizer.

「大変」, in this context, means " ** _awful_** ", " ** _terrible_** ", etc. Your
TL of " ** _difficult_** " is off here.

> "It's awful having to put in such great effort in order to win praise."

