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Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?

You know the old saying, ‘Get a job doing the thing you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life!’?

That’s really bad advice. Get a job doing something you like, but not your passion. If you burn out on your passion, you’ve lost the thing that brings you joy.

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Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
People always ask why I don’t turn my hobby into a job, and this is the response I give. If the thing I do to unwind from my job becomes my job, what will I do to unwind from my job?

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- theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Ah, we’ve solved this in America. You go to your second, minimum wage, job. There your skills will not be valued and your work conditions will much worse
  
  This will leave you exhausted and make you yearn for your normal job again
  
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exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The real advice is to realize that every job has components that are not fun.

There are professional athletes who still love to play their sport, and intend to retire into coaching, but hate dealing with marketing and promos and media availability. Lots hate the travel. Some don’t like some of their teammates or coaches.

I know doctors who hate dealing with the paperwork, and programmers who hate dealing with documentation or testing, and lawyers who hate tracking their timesheets. But each of these are part of the job. The question is whether the entire bundled package deal is a pretty good job or not for yourself.

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- GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This also happens when people who love to cook at home get convinced to open a restaurant. There’s a reason why restaurants have cooks/chefs and managers that do the admin stuff, and loads of other delegation. Cooking food and giving it to people you know for free when they’re at your home is not the same as asking a world full of Karens to pay for your take on Mac n Cheese
  
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- stelelor@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  The question is whether the entire bundled package deal is a pretty good job or not for yourself.
  
  That’s a great way of putting it. Unfortunately, the drudgery of each job is rarely explained or even acknowledged to young people entering the workforce. That’s how we end up with burnt out people in their 20s and 30s.
  
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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah, this is 100 percent true. It doesn’t even have to be what you do for a living. I used to really enjoy cooking, but once I got a family and had to cook meals every day, whether I felt like it or not, it became a chore. As chores go, it was still better than most, but it stopped being something I looked forward to.

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