Should You Turn Your Hobby Into A Career?
Turning your hobby into a career may not be the best thing.
If you find something you love to do and can make money doing why shouldn’t you? There are several good reasons why maybe your hobby should stay a hobby.
To start with, you may not actually make any money. Just because someone else makes money doing it doesn’t mean you will. You may put out a whole lot of effort, and end up with nothing but a headache.
If you are lucky enough to make money with your hobby, you will now have to start deciding if you want to make it into a business. You will end up spending a lot of time growing your income. You may discover your hobby isn’t as fun as you thought it was.
And that brings me to my next reason. Time. It takes an incredible amount of time to make a successful business. You will spend so much time doing what once was your hobby, that it’s no longer a hobby. Oh, and that boring stressful job you were trying to avoid, is now what you are doing.
A lot of hobbies require creativity. People don’t realize it but creativity can dry up. If your hobby becomes your job and your creativity dries up you, could be in big trouble.
There is a lot of pressure to run a business and make it work. There is no room for error. If you do decide to turn your hobby…
