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Re:Monetizing hobbies by mooreds on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:04PM (#31135477)
> the whole adage about "do what you love and you'll never work another day in your life" doesn't apply to running a small business.

Is that because when you turn a hobby into a business there are lots of non-hobby tasks and requirements? Like sales, marketing, etc, etc?

Or because of the pressure of delivering the result?

Or for some other reason?

Re:Monetizing hobbies by WJW on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:42PM (#31135859)
Hobbies are almost by definition not mandatory activities. Earning money to eat and pay the mortgage is not really optional. Making the hobby activity mandatory will make it feel a lot more like work and a lot less like a "fun" activity. It might not be as bad as working in an Amazon warehouse, but it'll be a job all the same.

Worst case, if you get burned out on the new job you will not only no longer have a job but also won't enjoy your hobby anymore.

Re:Monetizing hobbies by egypturnash on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:53PM (#31136531)
My experience as someone who loves drawing and does often delightedly remind herself that her day job is sitting around a park drawing shit:

basically, yes, all of these reasons apply.

I'm good at drawing, not at selling myself; my work sells itself to a certain degree but that only gets you so far. Not everything I'm paid to draw is a thing I love to draw, either. And sometimes even a thing I love to draw becomes less fun when it has to meet someone else's approval; going back and forth with a client is a very different feeling than "I start drawing and I fix things I don't like until I'm happy with the piece".

Deadlines suck and I mostly arrange my work so as not to have any. Yes, this is a luxury. It probably means less money but I make enough to get by.

Re:Monetizing hobbies by earth_walker on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:15PM (#31135593)
Most hobbies doesn't have sales, marketing, taxes, regulatory mandated recordkeeping, deadlines, people yelling at you, or "regular business hours". Businesses have most if not all of these.
Re:Monetizing hobbies by AussieWog93 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:17PM (#31140022)
>Or because of the pressure of delivering the result?

It's mainly this. It's not a hobby when the customer needs their product delivered by Thursday, not is it a hobby where you need to maintain a certain output to pay the bills.

Sales and marketing are just a thing that you get used to.