You Don’t Have to Monetize Your Hobbies

Making your passion your career can ruin your passion

Sarah C. Schafer
Storius Magazine
Published in
5 min readJul 20, 2021

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Photo by Cherry Laithang on Unsplash

As people grow up as aspiring artists, they learn three things:

  1. Time is money.
  2. You should do what you love.

These messages seem contradictory until they consider the solution: Make their hobbies their careers.

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I’m a freelance writer/editor with too many novels in progress. I also write short stories and essays. See more of my work on sarahschaferwrites.com