Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it
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Re: Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it
#2My hobby is board gaming. I often see people on board game forums asking questions about wanting to open up a board game store/cafe. My thought is always, "Do you want to hate board games? Because that is the path to hating board games."
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#3This is why I never attempted to find a programming job. I am the typical nerdy polyglot, having dabbled in a two-digit amount of programming languages. But I somehow always knew, if I had to do this 8 hours a day, for projects I am likely not intrinsically motivated to work on, I'd likely hate it after a few weeks. I envy those which managed to make this passion into a paying job without loosing the love for it.
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#4Advice from a friend: Never do your PhD in a subject you love, because afterwards you'll hate it.
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#5My hobby is board gaming. I often see people on board game forums asking questions about wanting to open up a board game store/cafe. My thought is always, "Do you want to hate board games? Because that is the path to hating board games."
I mostly agree with this, but there are some people who very happily run board game stores.
But they’re the kind of people who love the process of running a store, and who also happen to love board games and decided to sell them.
Put another way, I think there’s a common mistake people make that “I love , so I’ll do + business and it’ll be great”, without considering what it takes to do the business part.
But I think the other mistake is assuming that working on something you love will automatically make you hate it. That really depends on your business acumen and mindset about the non- factors involved.
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#6This is why I never attempted to find a programming job. I am the typical nerdy polyglot, having dabbled in a two-digit amount of programming languages. But I somehow always knew, if I had to do this 8 hours a day, for projects I am likely not intrinsically motivated to work on, I'd likely hate it after a few weeks. I envy those which managed to make this passion into a paying job without loosing the love for it.
So what do you do for a living?
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#7This is why I never attempted to find a programming job. I am the typical nerdy polyglot, having dabbled in a two-digit amount of programming languages. But I somehow always knew, if I had to do this 8 hours a day, for projects I am likely not intrinsically motivated to work on, I'd likely hate it after a few weeks. I envy those which managed to make this passion into a paying job without loosing the love for it.
So what do you do for a living?
sysadmin.
Re: Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it
#8This is why I never attempted to find a programming job. I am the typical nerdy polyglot, having dabbled in a two-digit amount of programming languages. But I somehow always knew, if I had to do this 8 hours a day, for projects I am likely not intrinsically motivated to work on, I'd likely hate it after a few weeks. I envy those which managed to make this passion into a paying job without loosing the love for it.
>the typical nerdy polyglot, having dabbled in a two-digit amount of programming languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
> But I somehow always knew, if I had to do this 8 hours a day, for projects I am likely not intrinsically motivated to work on, I'd likely hate it after a few weeks
You just play with programming languages on the surface. Programming is something different and chances are you won't like it.
>I envy those which managed to make this passion into a paying job without loosing the love for it.
Why envy? Just find activity you love.
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#9While I somewhat agree with the premise of this post, I think it is exacerbated by the fact that the author was trying to turn something like fiction writing into a business.
When I think of businesses that suck in terms of economics and chances of success, fiction writing is one of the first things that come to mind.
In general, you like things more when they make you a lot of money. A lot of fun things suck when you don't make money...
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#10The article should be called:
>Started doing Marketing for My Passion and It Appeared I Don't Love Marketing