I need to stop trying to make things I enjoy into profitable businesses. As soon as I try to make money off something, I lose some of the enjoyment. As soon as I get used to making money from something, I stop enjoying it at all. I want to have fun playing games again.
Yeah. Exactly. It's like that for me too. At least a lot of the time, and with most things. It was especially like that with music. I played for close to 20 years, then started making enough money from it to get throuh my final years at uni (that was in my late 20s - I started uni late) and ..... bleep bleep
TILT - I stopped enjoying it. Practically never play at all now.
Computers? Well, I like computers still, but not in the ghee-whiz let's go faster sense. I'm not interested in the machines themselves these days, just in what I can do with them. I.e., I don't care about photo-processing software - hate the damn stuff most of the time - just want great-looking pictures. And I like getting stuff organised.
Professionally, there are really two, maybe three things I like about my job. One, perhaps the main one, is meeting people and figuring out what it is they really need. It's always different and you have to balance so many different things: budget, attitudes, requirements, longer-term issues, it all has to fit together into the
right strategy (build a new one? upgrade? wait? wait how long?) It's fun. Also, oddly enough, I love removing spyware and viruses. That is a regular challenge, with ground-rules that change from time to time to keep things interesting, and I'm good at it. Mostly we enjoy stuff we are good at. The rest of it is a bit ho-hum, but OK. Except for taxation paperwork. That I hate with a passion so black you couldn't bottle it. It's not the money - I'd gladly pay
double income tax if all I had to do was sign a cheque and post it, it's the time, the endless time it takes, and always, no matter how much of it you do, you have to do more of it next quarter.
