IMO hobbies are different. I do a hobby because I enjoy the activity, but it doesn’t necessarily give me purpose. A job (or more specifically a career) gives me purpose even if I don’t always enjoy the day to day work. At a higher level I do enjoy my job, and it gives me a reason to get up each day and tackle problems I otherwise wouldn’t seek out.
I’ve often said if I won’t the lottery and didn’t need to work to survive, I’d still take a job (or at least full time volunteer) because it’s not natural to sit around and just do whatever activities attract your attention each day. It’s important to be challenged and pushed to do things you otherwise wouldn’t tackle.
Lots of hobbies have times where you don’t enjoy the work, or you screw something up, or something just won’t work and you walk away in frustration. Video games are basically designed to be frustrating so you feel accomplishment.
If we didn’t need to work we could have bigger, more complicated hobbies, with more opportunities for frustration.
But if we didn’t have to do them in the first place why would we call them jobs?
IMO hobbies are different. I do a hobby because I enjoy the activity, but it doesn’t necessarily give me purpose. A job (or more specifically a career) gives me purpose even if I don’t always enjoy the day to day work. At a higher level I do enjoy my job, and it gives me a reason to get up each day and tackle problems I otherwise wouldn’t seek out.
I’ve often said if I won’t the lottery and didn’t need to work to survive, I’d still take a job (or at least full time volunteer) because it’s not natural to sit around and just do whatever activities attract your attention each day. It’s important to be challenged and pushed to do things you otherwise wouldn’t tackle.
Lots of hobbies have times where you don’t enjoy the work, or you screw something up, or something just won’t work and you walk away in frustration. Video games are basically designed to be frustrating so you feel accomplishment.
If we didn’t need to work we could have bigger, more complicated hobbies, with more opportunities for frustration.
But if we didn’t have to do them in the first place why would we call them jobs?