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Nor does passion have to be monetized. Too often in life are hobbies and passions forced into the monetization route, which in a lot of people kills the joy, creativity, focus, and spontaneity required to create.

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Indeed. You see it even with us in the tech business. A lot of people used to love tinkering with computers as a kid, got into it for a living, and then want nothing to do with computers in their free time after work. It's just how it goes when you do something all day long for work, you don't necessarily want to do it for fun too.

Each day I get a little older and each day I hear that guy who retired after 40 years at Microsoft to start a goose ranch call a little louder.

I'm pretty sure that my career in technology is going to end with me on a ranch miles away from the nearest computer and it sounds delightful

For myself, even just going from doing art for myself, to helping out a friend with a label for his brewery made me see the other side of things. He had a specific idea in mind, which was different from mine. I figured out quickly that creating art, and then doing it for business, are far different things. Luckily in the end, he saw another piece of art I had been working on for myself in between his label art, and he chose that. I got to show my art and get a small amount of publicity, and decided that I will never create art for anything other than myself again! This was also with a friend, so I didn't have to hear all the brutal truth that would come with working with a client.

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