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Hey, that's a nice [THING YOU DO FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE], be a real shame if somebody were to [CONVINCE YOU TO MONETIZE IT, TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP INTO AN OBLIGATION AND ROBBING YOU OF JOY]

This isn't about me/my job btw! Just the ever-present cultural spectre of capitalism that insists that, if you're not making money, you are "wasting" time 🙃

Fortunately I’m incompetent enough at all of my creative endeavours that attempting to monetise any of them would just make them even more expensive hobbies, but now with a side order of obligation

i have long been side hustle resistant. i would simply rather be poor than deprive myself of the relaxation time we would afford a beast of burden

In a business school stats class, we were assigned a project to collect data on a subject of our choice. My team decided to collect data about our happiness at random times of the day. When an exec came and reviewed our report on what made us happy, he said, “great, but how do you monetize it?”