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Constructed Languages. Not for nothing did JRR Tolkien call it a secret vice. It's such a lonely hobby. You can enjoy the work of a chef or an artist or a musician even if you yourself aren't a chef or an artist or a musician, but nobody's going to complement the elegance of your conlang's noun inflection system.

It's bitterly ironic that the whole point of a language is to communicate, but the vast majority of conlangs will never be uttered by anyone other than their creators, and rather badly even then.

I don't want to get paid for my hobbies because they wouldn't be hobbies anymore, but it would be nice to get more than just a smile and nod from people outside the hobby now and then.

I made a Halloween mask this year from start to finish. The entire process took 2 months of work but it paid off in a way that if i can get faster at it i might try to sell something one day at a convention 😁👍

Next step in the process is learning about Vacuum Forming! Then we'll really be in business.

Mask in question:

If someone pays me to play music before I die, it'll feel like mission accomplished.

I used to make a lot of Garry’s Mod animations. One such one…

https://youtu.be/72f-vNEfLpY

Never did sign my channel up for monetization - I didn’t like the patterns YouTube pushed you into and each animation usually took me many months. You can kind of see on my channel I tended to get distracted by whatever was a current trend. I’m trying one more that took me the better part of this year.

A lot of people remark that “I must really enjoy animating” - I do enjoy the result, but it’s a lot of work and takes willpower to push myself into another 3-hour session of laborious posing to get a scene in my mind on the screen just right. I also really hope for the animations to garner attention, even if just to make someone’s day better.

Blender at one point, but ive given up on the pipedream as ive put barely over a year in, maybe in 3 more

Went from trying to make money somehow back to just dickin around trying to learn how everything works, 3d just doesnt seem to pay all that well even for ppl with experience, entry level it jobs are nowhere to be found where i moved back home but I may be able to work at a place opening soon, for now I train ai to train myself out of a job, finally getting steady work there after two years of maybe an hour of work a month popping up, as I didnt even realize there were multiple platforms to sign up for, couldve been making money sooner.

Feelin extra greatful for my parents tho, got to just learn blender and pursue other hobbies for a year, mightve been more valuable than working everyday as I no longer have the brain capacity to do tutorials after working for 6-8 hours, dont even want to read comics after and now that I have money, im spending it on distractions like gaming and not potentially productive sht like blender (lol its free). Fk it tho I want a legion go s to play on while shit renders.

I've spent some 5 hours just today documenting and writing instructions on some IT tools for my collective. One person said its cool though, so not bad.

Open source software. Sigh.

That's a convoluted answer for me. I hand sharpen knives and straight razors as a hobby. Been doing it for like 30 years and have several hundreds of dollars in diamond and wetstones. I doubt there's 500 people in the country (US) that are better than I am at hand sharpening.

The convoluted part is that I could charge people to sharpen knives. I just don't want to.

I'd be happy to receive a portion of the money my Stardew Valley farm makes.

I’m pretty far in the negative on my company. I’ve invested about $50,000 and 4 years of work into it, and it has not become profitable. But, its operating expenses are pretty low, so I have enough to maintain it for about 4 more years. If it’s still not profitable then, I’d have to look for outside investors. The majority of the expense was lawyer fees for the patent.

My memes, shitposts and comments on here

My husband

Chores, organizing, cleaning. I spent so much time working on home projects this summer and when I look around it feels like I lost time. Somehow I've been working consistently without getting a foothold or making progress. Still laundry in the dryer and a mess everywhere.

I've been building a title suggestion collector bot to replace the old one Jupiter Broadcasting used to have but lost somehow. I can't shake the feeling that it's just a "picture on the fridge" kind of thing where everyone sees that it's crap and nobody wants to be the one to tell me; especially considering that it constantly crashes. I just enjoy building it and it feels good to see something I made put into production.

I consider it a ton of effort because I learned a bunch about self hosting but I would love to get paid for my Jellyfin server

Cave diving. I enjoy it as it is, but it's a huge time and money sink that has involved learning a ton of very technical skills that would be cool to be able to use for compensation

Writing fan fiction and making fan videos

I got a handful of houseplants that I've kept alive for years (one close to a decade) and I'm not sure its really done anything for me.

Maybe some of the music I produce, but then again, i do enjoy not having the demands of a huge fanbase or other public pressure to create. So, theres pros and cons

Currently working on my bachelor. Obviously that's not earning me any money right now, but the hope is that it eventually will. Good thing is that it's also not costing me any money, since my employer pays for it.

Cleaning, especially doing the goddamn dishes

Masturbation.

There probably is some reward - intrinsic or extrinsic - or you wouldn't be doing it. Monetary reward is often not necessary nor the strongest motivator.

Living.