Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒I don't know who needs to hear this, but please don't feel pressured to monetize a hobby or skill you're passionate about. It's important that you always love it. This is a lesson I've learned the hard way.
Jay Little@killyourfm This a thousand times over.
@JayLittle People keep telling me "you should make videos / write articles about your gardening and hiking adventures." NO. These things are too sacred to me!
@killyourfm I made my favorite hobby (coding) into a career. It's been a successful 25 years but I don't love it anymore. In fact I have virtually zero urge to do it on my own anymore.
Every so often when that realization hits me, it makes me sad. I used to love it.
So much.
Jake in the desert@killyourfm THIS. My wife is an artist and everyone is always telling her 'you should sell this!' She's sold one or two. She makes things for friends. But making things on demand or in mass? Miserable. And I'm glad she doesn't much.
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi@jake4480 With anything creative, it's a whole different beast to do something because you love it and maybe sell some of the products, than find yourself in a situation that the rent doesn't get paid unless you make more whatever you're selling. At that point all the love for the hobby will be long gone.
CupcakeRob@killyourfm it killed my love for music
so ...
@cupcakerob that is tragic. I'm sorry.
@killyourfm I now 'computer' for a living
oh god, what happens if I don't enjoy that anymore?
@killyourfm dunno if you know this but I'm the Penguin Polka guy
Still proud of that song 🤣
@cupcakerob !!! I played that song on my very first episode of Linux For Everyone!
@killyourfm I know! Been following you ever since!
Moderate Peril@killyourfm But my favourite hobby is forging banknotes.
Xavier 🌻@killyourfm deciding to stop at an Associate's in Art, dropping out of the university I had transferred to, and forfeiting a BFA was one of the most difficult decisions I've ever made.
Four years later I'm still processing all of it and refamiliarizing myself with art again, now that I'm not motivated by academics, gallery shows, contests, etc.
However, I continue to grow more assured that it was the right choice for me. I've since returned to the same community college to study IT.
John Rohde Jensen@killyourfm @ChuckMcManis Amen bro, quickest way to kill your passion for the thing. Been there, done that and have t-shirts to prove it.
Kim Possible 
@killyourfm THIS! I can't tell you the number of times people have told me "This is great; you could sell these." 😐
PD@killyourfm @LibertyForward1 I painted for a few years, people said I should sell, but I didn’t want to. Then I stopped wanting to paint and started doing epoxy resin stuff. People asked if I have an Etsy. No. Now I’m making polymer clay stuff. Same story. NO!
If I’d made any of those into a business, I’d never have tried the others, and I’d be ass-deep in accounting, website updates, social media marketing, taxes, deadlines, shitty customers… no, just no.
Moss da Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱@killyourfm
The problem comes when all you have are hobbies and you need money. I'm almost 72 and I have yet to fully monetize anything I can do and have barely stayed alive this long. In fact, for the last 3 years I wouldn't have managed if my mother hadn't died and left me some money.
The problem comes when all you have are hobbies and you need money. I'm almost 72 and I have yet to fully monetize anything I can do and have barely stayed alive this long. In fact, for the last 3 years I wouldn't have managed if my mother hadn't died and left me some money.
Bishop Whitewind@killyourfm you just can never you know give up control. Not that I've made it or anything but you know I've been at it.
I hate YouTube. I don't want to make a YouTube video 4 hours a day every day of my life or whatever crap it's going to be if I want to make it like that, and so I'm not trying to make it like that you know?
If you ever somehow by some miracle managed to take, you know ownership of yourself back as an entity from whoever else has tried to take it over the years, you should never give it back.
I hate YouTube. I don't want to make a YouTube video 4 hours a day every day of my life or whatever crap it's going to be if I want to make it like that, and so I'm not trying to make it like that you know?
If you ever somehow by some miracle managed to take, you know ownership of yourself back as an entity from whoever else has tried to take it over the years, you should never give it back.
@@killyourfm I've been lucky to be able to turn a hobby I loved into a job that paid well, because I got to do a job I love. However, turning my hobby into a job meant that I found myself without a hobby. For a while, I tried to make it work both ways .That was a big mistake. It took me a while to realize that, to find my passions again, to start new hobbies.
Now that my career has grown, my day-to-day job is far from what it was decades ago, and I got my original hobby back. I still love it.
Chema Hernández GilPreach! This is how I feel about coding. I loved programming as a kid, then slowly grew to hate it when it became a job. It was only after leaving the tech world in my early 30's that I started enjoying it again.
Steve Portigal@killyourfm started doing creative writing 3 years ago and lots of material about how to get published (not the same as monetizing of course) and I always ask myself but why? I’m not against it like oh my art is pure or some shit but also why add that pressure of “success” to something fun and creative (its helps that I’m professional published already I suppose)
Herefordrob@killyourfm Work has to be redefined possibly in terms of its contribution to the community. It does not need to be a means of producing consumables but of Wellbeing.
It has to be defined by #Partnership #equality monetary worth is not the only value.
Having a sense of direction, optimism and hope can all contribute to feeling happier.
An optimistic or hopeful outlook means we are more likely to experience positive emotions, feel more confident, have higher satisfaction with life & improved MH
Volpeon 
@killyourfm Turning programming into my job is exactly why I won't even try to make money with my art now
Tsargoth ☀️✨🌕
@killyourfm Making a hobby or passion into work can cause pressure to do that hobby which can lead to one hating it.
@killyourfm Its a difficult leason for some. Society pressures everyone to make more and more money. Its an easy road to start on because of one's passion and skill. Before long one can feel forced to work on it just to survive.
@tsargoth And it's such a temptation. The false promise is that "I can do this more often if make money doing it." Which is mostly true, but it comes with ALL the drawbacks...
@killyourfm Exactly. I get it but society messures success monitarily. Its not about what someone creates or how fulfilled one is but about how much money one has. Everyone needs money to survive its a trap.
Mooberry~🩵🐮🩵@killyourfm I'm glad that I've decided to go to college for psychology and leave writing or art as a side gig (at MOST; probably not gonna make any money from it). I've seen how people's attitudes toward their creative works can change once it becomes a job, rather than something done strictly for fun.
Three Moose In A Trenchcoat@killyourfm I'm more pressured into lowering my prices than monetizing my skills. 
Joachim@killyourfm I’ve started sewing my own clothes, and I’m pretty new at it… but without fail there are people asking me “will you make me something?”
No. Never. It’s a selfish endeavour, I’m just good enough that I get to enjoy myself, and I really wish to keep it for my own enjoyment. I can lend the sewing machine if I’m not using it for someone to learn, but I will not make something for anyone else.
@joachim GOOD. There is such a thing as "healthy selfishness" and you're tapped into it.
@killyourfm well I know I’m a bit of a people pleaser, so I have to clamp down on obligations that I’ll later regret, as soon as they appear