Comment by brudgers

Comment by brudgers 4 days ago

5 replies

Why not use the time to figure out what you actually want to do?

And if you actually want to do anything at all?

To put it another way, the best side businesses -- and indeed the best jobs -- are getting paid for things that are like the things you would do if you did not get paid.

Things that you are enthusiastic about...and if you are enthusiastic about the idea of making money, the simplest thing is to buy and sell physical goods. Good luck.

paulcole 3 days ago

> To put it another way, the best side businesses -- and indeed the best jobs -- are getting paid for things that are like the things you would do if you did not get paid.

I feel the complete opposite.

The things I really really really enjoy doing with my time are not (realistically) for sale. They are for me.

If you said I could make $250k a year by reading 100 books a year (a bit less than what I read on my own), I’d think long and hard about accepting.

I probably would because it would be interesting to test my assumptions, but I’d imagine it’d be less fun that reading them for free.

  • brudgers 3 days ago

    The things I really really really enjoy doing with my time are not (realistically) for sale

    Do you sell your time for doing things you don’t love doing?

    • paulcole 2 days ago

      Yes! People pay me a lot of money to do things that I don’t love doing.

      • brudgers 2 days ago

        Would you rather be paid to read books?

        • paulcole 2 days ago

          No, I thought I made that fairly clear in my earlier post.

          There are things I do for me and things I do for money. The two don’t overlap often and I have little interest in them overlapping significantly.