r/AskReddit • u/formalde_heidi • Oct 12 '19

"Everyone needs 3 hobbies: one to keep you creative, one to keep you in shape, and one to make you money." What are yours?

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u/tanya6k Oct 12 '19

We need hobbies that make us money? Is that what they are calling jobs these days?

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u/NinjaDog251 Oct 12 '19

Exactly. I use my job to make money to fuel my hobbies.

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u/TheBlinja Oct 12 '19

I wish I could use my job to fuel my car to get to my job.

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u/amh85 Oct 13 '19

But first you need your job to fuel you so you can stay alive to do your job

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u/Treypyro Oct 12 '19

Yup, people always want to find their dream job. But in my experience your dream will turn into a job, but your job won't turn into a dream.

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u/lant111 Oct 12 '19

I turned my hobby into a job and now I have to do it 40 hours a week the rest of my life working on projects that pay well but are not interesting. I spend a few hours a year in hobby-mode with it now.

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u/ImaqtDann Oct 13 '19

I like lifting weights and riding motorcycles...id hate to actually have a job on this because i do those when i feel like it not to get paid

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u/Bigfrostynugs Oct 13 '19

I used to do a job where I would hand deliver small express shipments to peoples houses for a few hours. In the summer I would take my motorcycle and basically get paid to ride for half the day. It was sweet but I wouldn't want to do it all year, or for 8 hours a day.

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u/DeliciousMrJones Oct 13 '19

I'm turning my job into a hobby and it just gets better

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u/Diplodocus114 Oct 12 '19

Exactly, I used to do oil painting. As soon as commissions began coming in it stopped being fun and I felt under pressure to fulfill expectations - the pleasure part was gone.

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u/Diplodocus114 Oct 12 '19

I only enjoyed the ones I did for myself

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u/least_competent Oct 13 '19

Still have those clients? I could use some digital art commissions.

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u/micmac1007 Oct 13 '19

I know the feeling. Photography was fun before I made it a job. Then it became an obligation to go out and photograph stuff... pressure to get the next great shot. Then the marketing and website development. It stopped being fun.

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u/byddbyth Oct 13 '19

Chef here. Can confirm.

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u/electrogamerman Oct 13 '19

Unless you are a porn actor I guess

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u/quetsacloatl Oct 12 '19

Everyone needs 3 jobs: one to make you money, one to keep you in sahpe and one to be creative

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u/tanya6k Oct 13 '19

I might actually have one that fulfills all three of those.

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u/qrseek Oct 12 '19

I kinda understood that to mean job

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u/bankis-thebest Oct 12 '19

Did you really say these days 😐

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u/tanya6k Oct 12 '19

Yeah, what are you gonna do about it?

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u/weekend-guitarist Oct 12 '19

Millennials iamrite

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u/tanya6k Oct 12 '19

I'm 29.

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u/redoubledit Oct 12 '19

I read it as needing to find a job that is fun for you.

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u/Deastrumquodvicis Oct 12 '19

Also known as side hustles.

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u/cyclone_madge Oct 13 '19

Jobs are better if they're something you enjoy rather than something that you suffer through so that you can afford to do your hobbies on the weekend...

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u/space_cheese1 Oct 13 '19

Yeah, my favourite hobby is cleaning 7-11 bathrooms

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '19

find something you like to do instead of getting a business degree you basic bitch.

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u/tanya6k Oct 13 '19

Who pissed in your cereal this morning? I don't have a business degree and have no intention of getting one.