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Haha true, and doing it for paying your bills probably kills some of the joy of that hobby.
Hang on, isn’t drawing cartoons OP’s hobby?
That’s very like me, as soon as something becomes a task or chore or job I don’t like doing it. It’s the difference between wanting to do something and having to do something.
If you love something, don’t do it for a living, keep it for yourself. You’ll start to hate it soon after monetizing it.
I respectfully disagree. I love my career. It has afforded me some amazing opportunities and paid me to travel the world. My closest friends are people I have worked with. There have been bumps, and I had to take a break from it for a few years. But after over 20 years, I still look forward to going into work.
That’s how I feel whenever I play my instrument and people are like “wow you’re really skilled at that why don’t you go pursue a job playing that?” And I sit there like “I enjoy it because it’s something I chose that I wanted to do and at any time I don’t want to play it I can drop it. Pursuing a passion that just means no matter I must make it work sounds awful to me.”
My reply when someone says I should start a bakery. Nooooooooo thank you – I don’t want to be forced to make things every freaking day, let me enjoy my flashes of inspiration!
There’s a vast difference between wanting to do something and having to do something
I’ve got you penciled in my calendar for July 15! I hope I’ll have time that day to drop by. Keep doing what you’re doing.
god I hate this idea that everything you do has to be to make money, and cant be purely for enjoyment, I dont want to taint my happyness with capitalism
I’m genuinely under the opinion that you should never turn your hobbies into a career. My dad, who is a total bad ass mind you, always told me to find your hates to know what you don’t want to do. This is great advice in two very distinct ways. Firstly, you don’t pigeon hole yourself because there may not be an opportunity for you to succeed down the path you are traveling. Secondly, passions come and go and you could put yourself in a terrible position because of that. No one wants to get stuck doing work that they learn to hate.
Its not an adhd thing… Well It is an issue for adhd because task hyperfixation, obession, lack of dopamine hits as a reward activation in brain for task completion, means much of what people with real adhd/add disorder ranges do gets displaced by news things, and its hard to do same things again, as they yeild little to no intrinsic values.
But, there is a quote already mentioned: do a think you love every day for a job, and it will become a job to try and love to do it. Its a job, we dont do jobs becaise we love them and they are pur hobbies, hobbies are fun, thongs to take our minds off jobs. Jobs are repetitive, tasks, desogned to do things and contribute somehow to our lives and society. Many jobs are shit for this reason, but they need to be done, like waste management or cleaning….
Its a funny adhd quirk, but it’s seriously debilitating slowly loosing hobbies or not enjoying accomplishing things, its like effort is wasted, memories not formed, emotional and mental links not there.
And work, is work. Doing a hobby you enjoy and great at can yeild value, but not everyone wants to do it for a living. And people with adhd, at least, over time learn and realise, what is and isnt possible to do repeatedly for a living and still be enjoyable long term.
I’ve loved cooking since I was 4 years old, so I dedicated my life and career to it. 30 years later and I’ll never work in a restaurant again unless it’s on my terms. Topsy-turvy ass, backwards industry…
Cannot tell you how true this is
I love photography and have spent a lot on enjoying it as a hobby. Sitting watching wildlife and casual family day photography, it’s perfect and I love it. Now apply client expectations, deadlines, payment processing and all the business bits and pieces to it and I hate it with a passion.
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Okay, but how is this ADHD related?
I will tell you all, if there is a hobby you enjoy, DO NOT TRY TO MAKE IT A CAREER. If you make it a career, it becomes a job. When it becomes a job, you will no longer enjoy it as a hobby. I’ve done so several times, and ruined several hobbies for myself. I make art pieces, and I WILL NO LONGER TRY TO SELL THEM. I did it as my sole income for over 2 years, and I regret it as it sucked my soul out of those projects.
You should have a career that you can enjoy and be proud of. You should look for work you do not feel trapped by. But whoever said “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” was full of shit.
If there’s one thing that kills my joy in doing something, it’s when that thing becomes mandatory.
Doesn’t even have to be a career. When I realized that I dreaded logging into WoW for raid night because it felt like a non-negotiable job, I quit the game.
The comments are interesting. I work in Career Development and the answer really is dependent on the type of person. Hobbies can become business if the person has the motivation, and mindset to build something larger than just doing something for fun. Other factors such as individual preferences and bias plays a major factor as well.
So funny I forgot to laugh
me in one comic strip
This is actually super accurate…
“Do what you love. Follow your passion and you’ll never work a day in your life” is some of the worst advice I ever got…
I was really into computers and technology as a hobby, so I made it my career. I started an IT Firm with my buddy, and it went really well for over a decade… But about 11 years in, I started to burn out, and then a personal tragedy blew my life to flinders, and the work just began to be… awful. I ended up leaving the company I’d worked so hard to build all through my 20’s.
Now I *hate* computers and technology… I can *use* a computer, but having to do anything regarding repairs, problems, setups, upgrades, all the shit… I just… sucks. I don’t like it.
Now I have no hobbies. What was my favorite hobby is the thing I dislike.
I saw a video on this problem, and the advice he gave (it was Mike Rowe, btw) was “Go were the work is and *become* passionate about it.” I think that’s better advice that doesn’t ruin your life.
Fr, I wish someone couldn’t discussed abt this sooner. I draw pretty well and have always thought of going to art school to continue in an art career. A good choice I’ve made was to intern for free at studios and companies during high school to test my limit. And as the OP said, when drawing became mandatory, I lose my motivation. This rlly cuts my thought on going to art as a career and it being a hobby is already enough.
I hope the artist isn’t trying to be sarcastic, because this is some sage advice. The fastest way to turn something you love into a chore is to stake your livelihood on it.
For real though, I don’t think there’s anything in this world that it’s healthy for a human to do 40 hours a week for every single week of their entire adult life.
Even things that I really love, I give it at most 4 hours before I’m completely over it.
People with ADHD need to stop being so damn relatable… :,(
If you pick a job you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
Because they’re not hiring.