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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My ex-wife used to enjoy throwing dinner parties for friends. And then a couple of them asked her to do it for them. Before I could blink our house turned in to a catering kitchen with hot boxes everywhere. She created a successful company, and then a successful restaurant and started to the doing the "celebrity chef" stuff. For her I think it was the stress that supplied the spark. And kept it going. It wasn't about the "fun" anymore. So I think looking at your passion as a job is tricky but necessary. You have to create some distance.
