Don’t Let Your Passions Become Your Day Job: The Dangers of Being an Everythingpreneur

It’s 8:30 at night and I haven’t done much “work” by the standard of which is judged by sitting at the computer and creating an output today, but I device to take a break as I coin myself: a recovering workaholic who is trying not to turn her two new hobbies into professions. I struggle with becoming addicted to my passions and finding ways to become an entrepreneur at them, but for now, I will leave them as a source of enjoyment and try to take a couple months off of the content creation treadmill that my life has become. I used to take photos because it was fun, now it’s turned into videos and my job, which is a pretty neat job to have, but I easily become obsessed and then it is not fun anymore. Breaks, trying different mediums, and finding a few things not to turn into professions are my medicine for now.

There’s a reason they are called hobbies. Don’t turn your hobbies and passion into your day job. I can’t decide if I want to make music for fun or profit or marry the two or try to balance it. Work on it as a passion project first, and try to not let it take over my life, like I let everything else. I took photography to the point of burn out with trying to make a living out of it, and most of my joy is gone from the sport. I now approach projects and my creative life with a grain of caution and optimism: I know some of my works I do for the commercial side, and others I do for the creative side. An instagrammer, Karen X Cheng, recently put it brilliantly, “I…