PirateSoftware Talks Profession vs Hobby
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2024
- PirateSoftware speaks on your hobby and your profession! Thor goes on to explain the difference between the two and how important they both are!
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Thor is the reason I started streaming. He said three hours a day, three times a week. I just applied to monetize on UA-cam earlier this week. His discord is really helpful.
Gl brother!!
@@darylsdog9521 tysm
How's streaming working out for you?
@@zaidaliahmed7869 it's been surprisingly well. I'm still learning, so it's a lot to manage. Overall I feel good about it.
Shieet :) Congratulations, mate, and the best of luck to the future!
Thor is the reason I'm still working on my game.
I'm a Game Dev because I do D&D?! 😭 Dream Achieved. Thanks Thor Dad!
That bit of encouragement was all I needed to start my journey into digital game development. I used to create content for D&D, so being told "that counted" was just the kick in the butt I needed to think "yea, I can do this"
No shit dude! I've got a D&D career that's old enough to go to the bar, and have only ever ran homebrew... I knew I was a solid creative writer, but.. Game Dev never crossed my mind.
Lotta hesitation kept me from producing my own webcomic. Started finally producing it during covid and its great to achieve your goal
"If yoou draw doodles you are an artist."
My therapist said something like that to me before. Don't use labels to limit yourself.
This only works if your day job allows you to enjoy your hobbies. I worked as a Software Engineer and I struggled so hard to find energy & motivation after work to focus on game dev. My brain was so fried I couldnt enjoy my hobbies. And it wasnt because of my job, the job was perfect, I just sucked at software engineering.
Find a job you dont need to focus so much mental energy towards, then save that mental energy for your hobbies
Same here. After melting 8 hours in embedded doing some C# with modeling/sound/drawing is just too much.
I'm having the same. Changing teams with small resources and big deadlines makes it hard to want to continue struggling with side programming projects. I'm trying to get back into it though, when I'm not my other hobby is learning Spanish which is a different mindset as you suggested to have more enjoyment.
Why not do the hobby before work?
@@aarongeorge347 Because some of us need to get up, get ready, and stay stuck in traffic for 1 hour to get to work. That's 2 hours max of our free time wasted getting ready and going to work. Personally, I'm not one of those folks who can live off of 4 hours of sleep. I need 8 hours minimum, and additionally, I rather spend my mornings at the gym staying healthy than doing my hobby with grogginess. Most people don't learn or retain things in the morning after waking up.
@@aarongeorge347 Because attempting to learn after waking up doesn't work for everyone. Additionally, some of us need to get ready for work and stay stuck in traffic for almost an hour. It takes me 1 hour to get ready (run, make breakfast, get dressed, head out), and if traffic is bad, I'm stuck in it for 30mins to an hour. That's 2 hours of my free time gone just getting ready and going to work. Additionally, some of us need 8 hours of sleep and aren't lucky like Thor that we could live off of 4-6 hours of sleep. I need 8 hours minimum of sleep to function, sometimes 10 hours. If it works for you to do hobbies in the morning, awesome! Typically most people don't have that liberty.
Was tea hing myself to code during quarantine in 2020 and lost focus once I had to go back to work everything and broke up with my gf (she was doing all the artwork) after watching this dude it motivated me to get back on it. Been hitting it hard for the last month.
7 year-overnight-success :-) Yeah, People tend to see your achievements, not your work. Great channel and content, I really like to watch it. Greetings
100% agree. Its like acting or being in a band. Two similar saying are Your an 8 year overnight success or It take 10,000 hours to master your craft.
TURN THE PHONE OFF!
I feel called out :/
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There are some things that are more important than a stream. Especially when those things can watch you ignore them in real time.
@@asmosisyup2557 you dont need to ignore it, just put it on silent
After work, eating, going to gym, by the time i get home i usually have 3 to 5 hours for hobbies which i usually dont have the energy to work more. I cant imagine people with more responsibility like kids
Tell them it is ok to try.
Show them how.
When they fall ask 'did you learn anything, try again.'
Yeah, I bet that would work, you should do that...
It's always kind of irked me that some hobbies can be applied as a label and others can't unless you're a professional or whatever, especially creatives. Like, I'm a LARPer, I know of no way to monetize that, sure there's some adjacent stuff that can be monetized, and obviously owning and operating a LARP is at least hypothetically possible to make a living at, but when I say I'm a LARPer, nobody judges me the way they do when I say I'm a magician. I've never been a professional magician, I've never tried to be a professional magician or been interested in trying to make a living or career out of it, at times I have been semi-professional because I used to busk, but that was mostly for fun, to meet new people, to have the chance to actually perform, and to earn some pocket money while I was in college, for me magic has always been a hobby, but so many people treat it like not just a profession, but a failed profession. Yeah, there are a lot of professional magicians out there, and for many people getting into it the goal is to become a professional some day, but a lot of us learn and perform magic because we like doing it, exactly the same reason I LARP, because *I like doing it* .
I've known people who like to draw, are really, really good at drawing, but refuse to accept being called an artist because they don't have a degree or don't make their living selling art or whatever. Like, no, you make art, you are an artist, that's what the word *means* and the fact that you're doing it because you like it and not for a career doesn't change that. I've had friends offer to make or do things for me and then refuse payment, even if I'm the one who approached them with the request, and not because they meant it as a favor and thus didn't feel right accepting payment, but because "I'm not a professional", and I could understand it if it were a legal thing like it was a field that required a license of some kind to accept payment, but I've had detailed, time consuming, and difficult projects done and the most I could get them to accept was the cost of materials, and that's heart breaking. Your time is valuable, your skill is valuable, your work is valuable. I don't feel comfortable asking people to do things for me for free, but I live a weird life and often have a need/use/want for something that isn't readily available even on the internet, so you pretty much have to rely on enthusiasts and hobbyists, usually ones you can only contact by being friends/in the same social circles/etc. and so many of them do truly amazing work and then refuse to be adequately compensated for it. Value your work. Value your time. Even if you aren't paying the bills with it, that doesn't mean it isn't worth anything, that's how you work toward turning it into a business if you want to, and if you don't, why wouldn't you want extra pocket money, especially after putting in all that time and labor.
then why not make some scenarios and go to the companies and offer them LARPs event? Like for corporations or companies. Or maybe open "theme LARP park" like "Fantasty world" where simple ticket allows you to walk on certain patchs or drink something in "traveler's rest inn" but extra ticket allows you to take role, play the actual LARP not just watch from distance if that makes any sense? I mean our copmapny hired once event company for the integration party and we played LARP. We had a blast and they provded everything we need - costumes, roles who we will be, what we know etc.
@@DeamonSorrow Somebody tried the LARP theme park idea recently and it failed, hard. Sure that was largely due to bad choice of location and years of mismanagement, but it is still a ridiculously risky venture and would require a ridiculous amount of money to even attempt, and shortly after the only previous attempt failed getting investors would be virtually impossible.
As for offering LARP events to corporations looking to do team building, I'm not surprised some have managed to pull it off, but it is an incredibly niche market and I wouldn't be surprised if they only have a handful of clients, it almost certainly isn't their primary source of income.
All that said, the difficulty of monetizing LARPing is entirely beside the point I was trying to make. Just like how I have zero interest in being a professional magician, I'm not looking to make money from LARPing or turn it into a career.
The point was that it's stupid that some things you can do as a hobby, like being an artist or magician, only seem to "count" when you make a career of them while others have the expectation of being just a hobby when you identify as one. If I tell people I am a magician they expect that I am trying to monetize it and do it professionally, and often when they learn that I only do it as a hobby, they try to tell me I'm not a "real" magician or the years of learning I've done to build skills and develop expertise somehow don't count because I don't get paid for it. Meanwhile when I identify as a LARPer, nobody expects me to be talking about my career and when people learn I just do it as a hobby instead of a career they don't try to tell me I'm wrong for using the term.
If you do art, you are an artist, if you write, you are a writer, if you do magic, you are a magician, if you LARP, you are a LARPer. Whether you even try to make money doing any of those things is not even slightly a factor in whether the label is applicable. People can do things as a hobby and identify them as a significant part of their life whether they are interested in monetizing it or not.
"Every overnight success takes about ten years." - Jeff Bezos
Thor: "If you make D&D Campaigns, you're a game developer"
Me with a DMing career that's old enough to drink and has been 100% homebrew since the start: 😳 You really think so?😃
Love it
100%
good think they baned no compete contracts! atleast in the usa
you can lose your life by saying the wrong thing on stream weve seen it a lot of times
You can lose your life making a cup of coffee, that's not a reason to avoid it.
@@asmosisyup2557don't assume i meant avoid it which I didn't. He's just not telling the truth and it's misleading.