Should Your Hobby Be Your Job? We The Dreamers Podcast - Episode 2

What happens when your hobby becomes your job? SHOULD your hobby be your job? That’s the question we’re asking on the latest episode of the We the Dreamers podcast.

After writing all about how much having hobbies has helped me (Kate) as an adult, we wanted to take a deeper look at this conversation and focus specifically on the stupid pressure we both tend to put on ourselves to turn our hobbies into wildly successful careers. Sound familiar?

As reluctant daughters of the Girlboss Era™️, Courtney and I both came of age during a time that was marked by what seemed like millions of side-hustle-turned-massive-success stories all sending the same vapid message wrapped in a minimalist, millennial pink bow and hashtagged #motivationmonday - that if we just girlboss hard enough, we can (and we SHOULD) take our favorite creative hobbies and turn them into a booming business right here and right now!! ....Woof.

Of course, as someone whose high school hobby of writing songs did indeed become my career in my late teens, I'm definitely not saying there's anything wrong with hoping to turn your hobbies into your career. The problem is when we start putting massive pressure on ourselves to make that happen every time, and completely forget to give ourselves permission to be creative just for fun. 

It can be absolutely exhausting to weigh ourselves down with these ridiculous expectations every time we go to do something fun, but for some reason we can't stop doing it. There's undoubtedly a toxic side to all this side-hustle messaging sometimes, and if I'm not careful I find myself getting caught up in it over and over.

In this episode, we're taking a deeper look at how hobbies can be a form of self-care, why we both have such a hard time making time for them, and chatting about different strategies that have helped us let go of the need to view every. single. thing. as a potential side-hustle that we are now morally obligated to spin into gold.  

Head on over to our YouTube channel to join the conversation in the comments - do you think your hobby should be your job? let us know if you can relate to this question, and how you make time to be creative just for fun!