Paid for hobby Vs Paid for nothing

Would you rather get paid for doing what you enjoy, or get paid doing nothing at all? Lets just say you make 60 grand a year. Now, I realize one could argue that if you get paid doing nothing at all, you could still technically get paid doing your hobby (since that's what you'd be spending your time doing anyway). However, there is a fundamental difference between the two choices you have to consider:

Get paid doing a hobby:

Pros

-You'd be highly motivated to doing the work, since you are passionate about it.

-Less chance of getting fired or losing your business since you're most likely already highly experienced at what you do.

-A good sense of accomplishment

Cons

-You probably have to meet deadlines or be under a strict schedule which prohibits you to work at your own pace.

-There might be certain tasks that you don't want to work on, or may deviate from your usual working habits.

-The top two cons may lower your motivation and make your hobby feel more like a job than a career.


Get paid doing nothing:

Pros

-No strict schedule or deadlines to adhere to.

-You can do what you want.

-No feelings of pressure due to the pros above.


Cons

-Lack of self worth (This is apparent when you hear stories about lottery ticket winners.).

-Little to no motivation or sense of accomplishment. More inclined to feel bored.

-Too much free time could lead to destructive behavior such as developing an addiction to something.


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I chose get paid for hobby. I need structure in my life in order to get that feeling of satisfaction from completing projects. Depriving myself of that makes me feel empty and unproductive.

i feel like i wouldnt do as good a job on somthing tath was my hobby because i had t tho

Did this thread happen because of the Steam Mods fiasco?

Anyway, you forgot to mention if paid for hobby means you always have to do what people ask you to. Kinda the difference between a patreon and a commission.

I rather get paid to do nothing and do my hobby.

Paid to do nothing. I hate deadlines and I always procrastinate, so I'd prefer not to have that pressure. I would still probably pursue creative endeavors and continue my hobbies and be glad I could do it at my own pace.

Paid for nothing. I'm passionate about doing nothing as it is so being paid for it is win-win. No downsides and I can still do my hobby anyway.

I look at getting paid for hobbies or the help I give as a bonus rather then a requirement or a desire. Such as with helping out on fakku, I don't expect anything in return because I just enjoy helping out in my spare time, but if I get benefits from it in any way it's a bonus.

The other reason I don't care about being paid is the expectation that comes with it. Once you start receiving payment you have to start keeping up with the supply and demand side of things. If you are not committed it can make what was once fun a pain in the ass.

So basically for me, idc but to others that can turn their hobbies into a business, that's awesome.

Again, depends on the hobby. Take scanlations, of the people who get paid for it many don't live up to any particular standard, and there's people with poor efforts paid more than people who put up overall quality ones because those who pay don't know better. Ironically, the higher standards reside in the free area of scanlations (if you exclude Fakku Books) because team efforts are susceptible to nitpicking, when you're working on demand unless you bump into some hardcore customer there's nothing like that.

At first upon seeing the thread title, I immediately answered to get paid for nothing. But thinking more led my answer to get paid for hobby.

In my opinion getting paid for nothing is like using gameshark in real life. There is no satisfaction on earning while doing nothing (well to me, atleast).

Getting paid by doing my hobby, is like a quest with rewards (duh). There is a sense of success to it, and keep getting back for more.

Well that's my answer.

I would prefer Getting Paid for hobby.

Potato.

No, but I can see why you would think that.



Thats what I meant when I said this:

Paid to do nothing.

Getting paid to do your hobby results in your hobby becoming your job. Thus you're forced to do it rather than doing it because you want to. This is the reason I don't want to become a professional gamer, I don't think those people really have fun playing that game anymore.

Besides, getting paid to do nothing is pretty much what all those people with stocks do. If you don't have to work that means you can use your time for anything, such as learning a new instrument or getting better at drawing. These kind of people sometimes run charities, or do non-profit work since they don't have to work. If I didn't have to work I probably would do some non-profit work, specifically for the reason you stated earlier that people who don't work often become lethargic and empty.

Exactly this. Once you start doing something for a living things change. You're no longer allowed to do as you please. Your decisions need to reflect the needs of your business, not yourself, and not your dreams. Someone expects something from you and that's the terms on which you're paid. Let's say you're an extraordinarily talented artist and someone decides to pay you a salary. For two months in a row you've created nothing. This person knocks on your door and demands to know what's going on. You reply, "Well, I just feel uninspired lately. I've tried but I end up scrapping everything." and that's the complete truth. Do you think this guy is just going to say OK, and walk off? No, he's going to immediately assume you've become complacent and are taking advantage of him. I can imagine it might work under rare circumstances but normally no.

I think I can speak from a little bit of experience with this.

I started out with Soba-Scans as a hobby (I didn't get paid to do it, I worked a full time job separately) basically as a distraction from the fact that I was in a "Oh god, I don't know what I want to do with my life"

Project-H ended up picking me up as a contractor for a handful of their books. I ended up not only hating the job, but I hated editing anymore because of the way they handled their business.

I was still working on the books I loved with them (literally the books I originally scanlated) but because of how the deadlines were, the pay, the communication, the lack of care you got from your superiors, made me hate the job and my hobby.

The plus side though is that with all this going on I did decide to go to school for graphic design since it was clear I had some sort of knack for it. When I was almost finished school Jake reached out to me because of my prior experience, not knowing I had gone to school for GD in the mean time, which ended up working out perfectly.

I'm a remote employee, and I end up putting in more hours than in-house graphic designers at times, but I do love my job and wouldn't change that at all. There's a huge difference when bigwigs, or people who think they're bigwigs, have their idea of how things should be, and when a group of people who have the same love and care for the manga industry get together to make something nice.

Now I get to work with a team and have back and forth changes in the collaborated effort to make the books look as nice as possible. Not only does that make me feel great as a graphic designer, it makes me feel great as a fan too.

If I could be paid to do nothing at all, yeah that would be fine. But I think I'd be really bored and have less purpose. Maybe not as appreciative.

At least with a hobby your honing your skills. If you do nothing you gain or learn nothing.

Not all hobbies lead anywhere. Sometimes being in the right place at the right time and/or knowing the right people will grant you more than any skill-honing. Your point sure would work if you were something like an artist, which can be self-employed.

I like the idea of being paid to invest your time into a hobby.

Hobby so I feel accomplished.