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If you started a job that was close to your hobby, has that diminished your love for it? (lemmy.ml)
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I've heard this before, but haven't found it the case personally. I started work in manual jobs and messing around with computers was my evening hobby. Many years later, I now do IT as a job (partly from gaining skills from that hobby) but also have continued it as my primary thing to do when I'm not working. I was worried when I changed into this career that my hobby would become too much like work to be enjoyable, but I've not found that.

Is this the same for other people, or am I unusual in doing something in my off hours that's so close to my career? I'm genuinely curious to know if others have found the same or whether they found another hobby.

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[–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

So your job is cooking?

Basically it’s the different challenges at home vs. the daily grind that make the difference for me.

That makes a lot of sense. A lot of the 'stress' of my job comes from people - asking permission, considering stakeholders, working around their needs - that it's quite freeing to "JFDI" something, knowing that it's only me that cares or is affected.

The venn diagram between "work" and "play" for me has a lot of intersecting area, but the distinctions are mostly clear. Guessing it's the same for you - especially with the extra depth that cooking for family involves.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Absolutely, it's amazing how much each spect of the career has different disciplines - for example when you can set up an event from soup to nuts, so to speak: Make a menu, get a budget, get the product, gat the cooks to produce it, execute the event, and then reconcile the costs, feedback from the guests (and your boss/business owner) and have everything go as planned has each its own sense of satisfaction and heartburn.

    This year marks 40 years, everything from McDonald's to 4* 5 Diamond restaurants, several countries and 3 continents, which finally led to us opening a humble little BBQ joint ran by just us 2 (and a couple neighbor kids during high season) and it took all that experience (and, luck!) to survive the opening 4 months before COVID, lol.

    Cooking at home is more simplified, and more satisfying.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Oof, that must have been brutal. I understand the satisfaction and still try to recognise and store up the good days, but something like Covid is a blindsider that took so many businesses out.

    Hospitality here in the UK suffered hugely, even to the extent that the government created an ill-founded system called "eat out to help out" and paid people to eat at restaurants. (And did cause more spreading of the virus). I'm lucky to live close to several good food pubs, but they're still struggling and gradually closing as costs rise.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I'm in Spain and it's an absolute bloodbath I'm the UK, so many chef's & pub owners I know are struggling. hopefully there will be relief before there is nothing left but big chains with mediocre beer and food.

    COVID did some damage to the hospitality section here, a lot of local institutions were over their heads with loans and the it was compounded because the Gov. would not let them get rid of personnel-evn though they were shut! We were lucky in that regard because we hadn't hired anyone yet.

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