I don’t know what exactly, but I think is the birth of our child is pushing me out from the “do things other people give you grief if you don’t, then leisure” mood into “hey there are some things I actually want to achieve” mood.
That’s a far better place to be!
This is why my impression is you really, really need to be a big “star” to do something you both enjoy and get paid for.
There’s a range of getting paid. In the market for fiction, so I’ve heard, only a small fraction earn enough to live on it. But any publisher who asks a fee to publish your book is a crook. The market for taiko here in the UK is small enough that there are only about three people in the country who can make it their primary job, and I’m certainly not one of them. But still, anyone who wants us to start their corporate party with a bang can pay corporate rates, and have done. Even the street busker is getting paid—there wouldn’t be any point otherwise.
Even when you aren’t depending for survival on the money from what you enjoy doing, there is value beyond the money itself in getting payment to do it for others. Giving to strangers and getting nothing from it but the act of giving is draining in the long term. There has to be an exchange of value, even if one side is contributing “only” money.
Which is rambling away from the original topic, but I felt like saying it.
That’s a far better place to be!
There’s a range of getting paid. In the market for fiction, so I’ve heard, only a small fraction earn enough to live on it. But any publisher who asks a fee to publish your book is a crook. The market for taiko here in the UK is small enough that there are only about three people in the country who can make it their primary job, and I’m certainly not one of them. But still, anyone who wants us to start their corporate party with a bang can pay corporate rates, and have done. Even the street busker is getting paid—there wouldn’t be any point otherwise.
Even when you aren’t depending for survival on the money from what you enjoy doing, there is value beyond the money itself in getting payment to do it for others. Giving to strangers and getting nothing from it but the act of giving is draining in the long term. There has to be an exchange of value, even if one side is contributing “only” money.
Which is rambling away from the original topic, but I felt like saying it.