Are Side-Hustles Killing Hobbies?
Sometimes you can just do things for fun
Many people have dreams of doing something creative with their lives. For me it’s acting and filmmaking. For others its being a novelist, a poet, a painter, a stand-up comic or a musician.
The problem is that those same people were brought up to believe that those creative dreams were just that — dreams. That they should study hard and get a proper job because being a writer/performer/musician was never going to pay.
The truth is that pay only matters if you want your creative passion to be a career. You can do any of these things. You can write, you can play an instrument, you can create art. But everywhere you look there are solopreneurs, one-person business owners and youtubers telling you you have to have a side hustle, that you have to get out of the nine to five.
Before we started expecting to make money from them, our creative pursuits were called hobbies. We just did them for fun.
Somewhere along the line, the hobby started to get replaced by the side-hustle, an extra revenue stream to supplement your income, and that might even allow you to quit your full-time job, if those solopreneurs are to be believed.
Suddenly even the things we did in our spare time or to relax were expected to be productive. To earn…
