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When a hobby becomes a job
things can get very, very tricky when you turn the thing you love into the thing that keeps you and your family clothed and fed.
from Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon) by Austin Kleon
While baking is an unquestionably sweeter activity than any sort of grind, many quickly found this did nothing to curb burn out or exhaustion. Ca
pitalism not only defines how we spend our time, but our relationship to the things we fill our time with. Are you knitting a scarf to learn a new skill, to indulge in a pleasure, to take breaks from labor
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Keely Adler added
- For creative people this hits especially hard as social media’s invention of “personal brands,” “influencers,” and the “Creator Economy” turned the few remaining aspects of life that hadn’t yet been marketized into the last ways we could make a living without working for somebody else. Gradually and then suddenly creative people found themselves do... See more
from Sell out without selling out
Lisa Grimm added