Depends on your definition of work. I don’t think we should let ourselves be convinced that work can only be selling your energy, your time and your skills to a company that will pay you as little as it can get away with. If you have creative hobbies, practice some craft on your free time or help other people free of charge, that’s still work: you’re creating something of value for others and/or for society. It just doesn’t feel like it because it’s something you actually want to do instead of being forced to do.
that’s still work: you’re creating something of value for others and/or for society
Honestly I put “NEED to get paid in order to live” but changed it to “I NEED to work” because of this. Even if I just decided to find a forest in the middle of nowhere to claim as my own, build a house, raise animals and farm the land I’m still working.
But since I do enjoy my hobbies of carpentry, metalworking and leatherworking, I don’t really consider them work in the same sense. You’re 100% correct.
I make stuff for people all the time, but it’s on my own schedule when I feel like working on something, and I only accept orders when I feel like it. If I tried to do that full time, it’s now not really up to me if I go work on something today. I have to or I get backed up, the customer gets pissed, and I’m losing money. Or the equivalent favors/barter.
Depends on your definition of work. I don’t think we should let ourselves be convinced that work can only be selling your energy, your time and your skills to a company that will pay you as little as it can get away with. If you have creative hobbies, practice some craft on your free time or help other people free of charge, that’s still work: you’re creating something of value for others and/or for society. It just doesn’t feel like it because it’s something you actually want to do instead of being forced to do.
Honestly I put “NEED to get paid in order to live” but changed it to “I NEED to work” because of this. Even if I just decided to find a forest in the middle of nowhere to claim as my own, build a house, raise animals and farm the land I’m still working.
But since I do enjoy my hobbies of carpentry, metalworking and leatherworking, I don’t really consider them work in the same sense. You’re 100% correct.
I make stuff for people all the time, but it’s on my own schedule when I feel like working on something, and I only accept orders when I feel like it. If I tried to do that full time, it’s now not really up to me if I go work on something today. I have to or I get backed up, the customer gets pissed, and I’m losing money. Or the equivalent favors/barter.