Fuggedaboutit

Have you or anyone you’ve known ever decided to turn a hobby into a career? While many times it results in a satisfying vocation, sometimes it ruins it for the person. Most times, the problem is quite simple. Once it became a career, it became “important.” The focus changed. Instead of doing it for fun, it was being done for money and decisions became confused. “I’m not sure I want to do [this], but it will make me more money.”

In my previous post I talked about having fun playing and losing a bit of that. Why did I lose it? Because I became concerned about getting gigs, I wasn’t thinking as much about if they would be fun (or if I could make them fun for myself), and I became too concerned about getting it right (again, see the previous post). When you stop doing something for fun and put all these other demands on it, you lose the freedom and play the formerly fun thing had.

I’m a very lucky person in that I don’t have to play to eat. I can base my decisions about what I do on whether I will enjoy doing it or not. The trick is to not overthink it, to not find flaws just to back out of it, and to do something and not do nothing just because I can get away with it. You know I’ve tried.

Posted 2011 06 17 at 10:12 AM

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