• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    8 days ago

    That’s why I think it can suit us quite well to be self-employed, and get paid to do enough different challenging things to keep it interesting.

    Your work directly translating into money is nice.

    But also, huge asterisk there, because I found out my carefully honed 3D modeling skills aren’t worth “living money” unless you’re crazy good, and also the official stuff like licensing and taxes are totally those “pick up your socks boring tasks” that we put off at the last minute sooo…

    I dunno, I can’t seem to decide whether it’s worth trying to find a job I can “leave at work” that doesn’t drive me crazy, or hustle to make my own venture viable. 🤔

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netOP
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      8 days ago

      I can’t stand the thought of selling myself every few years to job hop, let alone having to do it every day trying to monetize one of the few things left that I enjoy. When I was coming out of high school I entertained the thought of running my own PC/electronics repair business. It took maybe two months as a field service tech to put those thoughts away for good.