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    118 months ago

    The job I love is me doing my hobbies, and occasionally selling something I make.

    My hobbies do not pay the bills unless I spend metric shitloads of energy and time to promote myself, my products, and spend a similar amount of time actually involved in producing them.

    For instance, one hobby is blacksmithing. Nobody cares about the regular stuff and mostly want knives. Happy to make them, I love it. But I work on them when I feel like it, they’re done when I decide they’re done, and if I don’t want to work on one for 6 months then I don’t.

    Heck, I dropped $1300 on tools and raw materials in order to make a single knife I ended up selling for $300. Then I started 8 more knives with the remaining materials, and they’ve all sat in various stages of completion for about 9 months now.

    That doesn’t pay bills.