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⌈ Secret Post #4545 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I've never written fic, but I've done some cosplay/costuming (and occasionally sew the odd normal garment) and I also love to bake. People have told me I should do either of those things professionally. I say "Naw" and they say "Surely, it would be more fun than your current job?" and I say "The hell it would be, I'm an archaeologist!" and then they shut up. I think there's a lot of people who either really dislike their jobs and assume everyone does too and should want to do a more "fun" job, or else they feel everything needs to be turned into a side-hustle. Personally, I have no interest in pursuing the stuff I'd have to do to allow people to pay me to bake or sew (on more than an extremely occasional and non-professional basis), no interest in baking or sewing to other people's tastes all the time rather than my own whim, and I definitely have no interest in quitting my career to do what someone else assumes is a more fun job just because it's the choice they would make if they felt they had the skill or were willing to take the risk of a career change.

[(Anonymous)]

I say "The hell it would be, I'm an archaeologist!" and then they shut up.

The perfect come-back! I'd love to see their faces.

I'm so envious of your career and am gald you're enjoying it. I went on three digs when I was a student and loved it, but the chance of getting a job as an archaeologist the year Margaret Thatcher came to power was pretty minimal. Or any other job tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's a lot of people who either really dislike their jobs and assume everyone does too and should want to do a more "fun" job, or else they feel everything needs to be turned into a side-hustle.

This. I also think people just assume that certain jobs (actor, musician, writer, etc.) are fun and games 24/7, so if you turn your hobby into a job, then you can have fun all day.

And it doesn't work like that. Yes, there can be plenty of fun aspects to those kinds of jobs, for sure. But there's also a lot of crappy aspects, too, and turning something fun into a job can make you resent that fun hobby after a while. It puts a new set of pressures and deadlines and such on you that you may not want to deal with. You've got to start looking at things in a business sense instead of just a simple, "What would be fun for me to do next?" sense. You have other people meddling in and having input on how you do things now instead of just doing them in your own way on your own time. And so on. That can suck the joy out of everything very quickly.

I also think people assume that just because somebody can do a certain hobby well, they'll be successful with it as a job. That's not always the case, either.

[(Anonymous)]

Oooh, I have been there and totally get it. If I tried to monetize my hobbies, they wouldn't be fun anymore!