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How about those in the arts as a profession? I don't think they'd have a successful career if they didn't love their job. I think they'd produce pretty abysmal

• lmm 9y ago
  You can be a perfectly good artist as a 9-5 worker; producing good art is much more about, well, doing work, than anything else. The problem is that you're unlikely to be paid well, because you'll have to compete with all the people who are doing art for the fun of it.
• tjr 9y ago
  I've produced music for others (as a job, if you will), and I've produced music for my own enjoyment and satisfaction. While I do get an amount of enjoyment out of producing music for others, it may or may not be music that I personally like. It has to meet certain criteria. It has to sound like this, use these instruments, or be that duration, or whatever. A lot like programming, I think. I can program on my own time, making whatever I fancy, using whatever language I want, to my own maximum enjoyment. At a programming job, I will likely enjoy it to at least some degree, but I may or may not be doing everything in a way that I think best, because I'm doing the work for the satisfaction of someone else. But then, producing something for someone else, be it software or music or whatever, results in a different kind of satisfaction on my end: the satisfaction of meeting someone else's need. They wanted X, and I made X for them, and they are happy with it. I may or may not like X myself, but I am pleased that they like it!