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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
I've found this line of thinking very idealistic, in my experience. In that, once something becomes a job, work you have to do instead of a hobby or interest you choose to do, it inherently becomes less enjoyable.
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I agree totally. I got into web design as a hobby after college. Decided that if I enjoyed it enough to do in my spare time at home that I should do it for a living. Been working in marketing doing sites for 8 years now and while it has afforded me good pay and the ability to work from home, it is no longer something I do outside of work.
I think for a lot of people having a hobby become a career kills the hobby. Often because it takes the fun and creativity out of it. For me specifically an example would be instead of designing a cool new site or learning a new web language, I got to spend a significant portion of my week recreating a bunch of old crappy webpages we had retired because stupid people in sales were giving links out to prospective customers containing super old information.