Should you turn your hobby into a profession?

Sometimes, if you turn your hobby into a profession, it can lose it’s magic, because the goal of most jobs is to make money. Hobbies are wonderful in that you can choose the time when you will engage in it, and making money, or satisfying customers, ir keeping to a strict timetable is not part of it.

Meh, I tried, no takers. No one wants to send me manuscripts to proof and read, although they really should. :)

the question is too vague for a meaningful answer. This goes double for you loli. I get the shakes imagining any hobby that might interest you.

good shakes?

The kind of shakes brought on by the sound of a dental drill.

So you are a masochist.

can’t fool you!

Sort of like moving from a FWB sort of person to a professional prostitute?

Picking you nose can be a hobby.

@stanleybmanly but can you make a living wage doing it professionally?

That is the question and until loli is more specific about the”hobby” in question there’s no point speculating on it.

Depends on what it is, what it would look like to have it be your profession, and whether your hobby is actually your genius and/or passion.

If your hobby is really your genius and/or passion, then yeah, I’d say it’s best to do what you can to make it your main activity, unless you can find a job that doesn’t get in the way of your real work.

I love the fuck out of woodworking. So I was pretty stoked when my sisters husband told me his sister just wasted 15K on the worst backyard fence. It was so bad I can’t even put it into words.

So YES.. I get to rip down the old (new) fence and make a new beautiful thing out of wood. This was my jam. About 2 months and 20K later we have a lovely fence. We used lasers to make sure everything was lined up properly.

Then I thought that I loved the fence game. So lets try to get some fencing gigs. The pricing is brutal. Like not profitable if you want to do a good job. Getting fucked over and then needing a person to redo the mess is the norm.

No. There is no should here.

@MollyMcguire I don’t see the “should” anywhere in that answer.

@stanleybmanly The should is in the question. Keep up.

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@johnpowell Have you considered putting an ad somewhere, even on craigslist, asking if anyone wants a fence (etc) done right?