Hobby careers

[Enjoy The DeclineParticipant 1719]

First of all, I would like to point out that there are hobbies that people can make money from if they are real good at them. Some of these hobbies could be photography, playing physical sports, programming, cooking, building, repairing, fix computers ect. The thing is though is that sometimes, in order to get your foot in the door in some of these hobbies to turn to a career is that you need experience, which means that you need someone to give you a chance. Other times, it could be that you cannot have a hobby as your career, because careers such as playing physical sports can be very competitive to do professionally. For these reasons alone, I read that it is wise to have a real job and then you use that job to finance your hobby as a career on the side, since at least you will not put everything in one basket and go in debt. So my question is, is there anyone planning or is doing some sort of career hobby that they are doing on the side? I would like to read some of your projects you guys are doing. As for me, I am planning on brushing up some programming that I did in the past so that maybe I can make a few hundred dollars on making apps on the android. Who knows, maybe my hobby work can convince some people into hiring me to do some of their android app projects and I will work full time later on.

"Question everything" - Albert Einstein

[BoarParticipant]

My incomplete list would include: blacksmithing, woodworking, print making, bicycle mechanics, cycling tour leader, trapper, farmer, knife sharpening and whole load of other hobbies that I have dabbled with in past.

Untamed wrote: Quit complaining and Go Your Own Way in whatever manner suits you best.

[ILiveAgainParticipant]

My hobby was photography. The only thing I thank my ex for was a foot in the pro door.

I fly planes for my main living but also ended up shooting fashion, music and corporate events.

Then the quadcopter/drone scene came along so I combined the flying and photos.

I now shoot aerial footage for all sorts of things plus 3d digital mapping.

I think this market will be huge with endless potential.

In my spare time hahaha I take novice and pro photographers to Afrika and teach wildlife shooting and tracking … but mostly my ex brother in law handles that end now.

I’ve always ‘mouthed off’ about being able to do s~~~ … even if I couldn’t. The trick is knowing if you have or can find the skills to pull it off anyway.

To date I’ve been lucky.

[ILiveAgainParticipant]

A pal at a college frat used to have a beer brewing setup they made. They got damn good at it. They drank the stuff as fast as they made it.

Then a dude turned them onto making mead.

Later they discovered that putting the fermenting beer in the closet with the weed garden had some big benefits..the plants loved the co2.

You know Bunker .. this is the s~~~ men do. At some point either that beer or weed will be a madical cure for something or will produce some strange off shoot.

We fk about with s~~~ because we can … it’s in our DNA.

Sometimes it blows us up … sometimes it solves problems … and sometimes it takes us to other planets.

You gotta love that.

[RoyDalParticipant]

I’ve had many hobbies. I didn’t try to make money from them, although some could be turned into paying jobs.

I knew someone who started a microbrewery in his garage. He had a ball, and the brewery supported itself through his very limited sales. When his company transferred him, the brewery came with him. There are three microbreweries within a short drive of my home. I’m betting all were started by guys who began as hobbyists.

A pal of mine has a serious travel bug, and he is an excellent photographer. He really should write for travel magazines, if only for the tax write off.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9551]

Enjoy The Decline wrote:

First of all, I would like to point out that there are hobbies that people can make money from if they are real good at them. Some of these hobbies could be photography, playing physical sports, programming, cooking, building, repairing, fix computers ect.

I like the part about repairing computers. I also like to build gaming PCs. I bought a bunch of parts earlier this month, put it together and I want to try and sell it. Problem I’m having now is that I bought a PSU, but it didn’t work, and I have to spend $19 or so to send it back. So until I get a working Corsair PSU, this computer is just sitting there in a big bag the case came with.

Enjoy The Decline wrote:

The thing is though is that sometimes, in order to get your foot in the door in some of these hobbies to turn to a career is that you need experience, which means that you need someone to give you a chance.

That’s the hard part. In my life experience in the job market all I get is endless list of bulls~~~; no call backs, we’re hiring back college kids, not qualified, too many applicants, sorry we’re done hiring, and we’ll call you back. The bulls~~~ list goes on and on and on. Then there’s that stupid personality test on the applications that suck a lot of b~~~~. My advice, fake those tests, you can’t be honest on them and land a job. It doesn’t happen.

But why even bother trying to get hired which is VERY difficult, when you can do your money-making hobby for yourself and be in control of yourself? That’s what I’m doing with the computer project on eBay; hopefully it works out.

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