Should you turn your hobby into a job? It's a tough call. I turned my hobby into a full-time gig and ended up feeling burnt out. 😄 Anyone else been there? I was a wedding decorator for a year and loved it at first, but the constant pressure to create was too much. For those who've successfully turned their passion into a paycheck, how do you do it without losing your spark?
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I think you were also in a niche where people can be both frantic and demanding; add in that you likely dealt with people spending larger amounts (and the sense of entitlement that can beget), I'd wager you have some great tales of bride-zillas (or bride's-mom-zillas)...!
To survive, you'd have to get tough in a way which might be hard for a nice person to enforce; written agreements where clients have to agree to at least the main elements of a design early could be hard to insist on when brides-to-be are crying, etc.
I can imagine your BP, chance of aneurysms or heart attacks, sleep, mental health were all greatly improved by bowing out of thatmilieu!
