#im being dramatic selling the things i make isn't so bad i just. waugh
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oh you do glassblowing do you do sell your things at craft fairs? hey that's a cool clay thing if you made enough of those people would buy them. oh you came to show me a cool chainmail thing you made you're proud of did you know i think you could sell that, that thing you made you're proud of it could no longer be your own fun experiment because it's goods and services now. here's this reel of someone making sculptures out of pennies you've made art with pennies in the past you can make a career out of it. don't you want to do that. don't you want to turn every hobby you find joy in into an outlet of capital. you've expressed disillusionment at the prospect of being employed and doubt in your ability to do work at an output with so little downtime required for any career. so don't you want to take the things you enjoy futzing with that take you hours and hours and hours because you're not capable of being very fast your hands get cramped you like to do them in small stretches before you get tired into something that has to take up all your time that has to have a high enough output to be profitable? that's not the same problem anymore because you'll be doing what you love. i can't imagine the prospect of doing something with a deadline would take all the stressless joy out of it for you. don't you want that?
#im being dramatic selling the things i make isn't so bad i just. waugh#i would maybe sell chainmail at an art fair that could be fun ive sold earrings before and it was cool to have the income i could spend on#more hobby stuff i know that's just how things work but it just grated on me. like i said in the post im slow at it my hands hurt fast#it takes me hours and hours but i do it in like two hour stretches and get much less done in that time than you'd expect. im just so tired#alex talks
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