I've had this thought at times. I work a normal 9-5 in tech support, but ever since I was like 16 or so I thought of music as transceding from a hobby to an actual "I want to do this as a career", and it seems like in the past idk year or two I've really gotten serious to the point I pretty much have no other hobbies, where in the past I'd still play the occasional video game or watch series in my spare time etc.

Now even though I do love it, and don't really feel like it's even a chore to practice or work on writing a song, sometimes I wonder if it's what I'd do if I had true financial freedom. Like who knows if we lived in a socialist utopia where we could work like 15 hours a week etc I would be fine just going to work and then doing whatever, and just doing music purely as a hobby or enjoyment, but the idea of not having a choice, you either gotta work a 9-5 or somehow make your passions become a career makes it feel like maybe I've kind of "tricked" myself into viewing a passion as needing to have a career or money path in it. Anyone else feel similar?

    • pabrah [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I think I am, there are moments where I feel like i wish I could do a little more in terms of creative stuff like songwriting, since that you can't be sure how long it will take ideas to develop etc, so it's times when I'm doing that I wish I could just have a general "have all day to come up with something"