I have to take a break from my hobbies on weekends, imagining doing it 5 times a week for that long is exhausting now being paid to leisurely do something I love at my own pace, sure but you bet your ass doing that I’m also gonna end up hating because it will make way less and I’ll be frustrated at my pay and savings.
So yeah, if you are rich, and want to be an artist where you paint 3 hours a week, I’m sure you’ll love it
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.” - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
“If you find a job doing something you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”
Utter bullshit. Turning something you love into something you have to do is the most sure way to turn it into something you hate to do.
No matter how much you love to do something, being forced to get up at a certain time 5 days a well to go do it for 8 hours a day makes it work.
I have to take a break from my hobbies on weekends, imagining doing it 5 times a week for that long is exhausting now being paid to leisurely do something I love at my own pace, sure but you bet your ass doing that I’m also gonna end up hating because it will make way less and I’ll be frustrated at my pay and savings.
So yeah, if you are rich, and want to be an artist where you paint 3 hours a week, I’m sure you’ll love it
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.” - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
Brilliant. I’ve been meaning to read those again; I haven’t in many years.