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Sometimes you don't realize how many thing are giving away for those side projects. With those side project don't make you any money, they are pure leisure you
by ascavalcante80 8y ago
Sometimes you don't realize how many thing are giving away for those side projects. With those side project don't make you any money, they are pure leisure you should see it like 'playing video games'. When start to refuse go out with friends or make simple home tasks to keep working in this side project, it becomes serious... Of course, those side project allow you to acquire or improve skills which may be useful in your professional life. But the way you balance it is very important.
The analogy of 'playing video games' should help you to see how serious and important these projects are to your life.
- rjpr 8y ago>With those side project don't make you any money Says who? Plenty of my side projects have made me quite a bit of money. I'd say your mindset is equally as unhealthy as you'd never put any serious thought into it, making your statement about them not making money a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- chriswarbo 8y agoI get what you're saying, but don't really like the video game analogy. Video games are about following other people's rules, usually to achieve other people's goals (the exception is "sandbox" games). I don't think of it as a creative act, unless it's something extreme like speedrun glitches and demoscene-like arbitrary code execution.
- copperx 8y agoYou've elucidated the reason why I cannot get into videogames, even though I tried multiple times this last two decades. I love the aesthetics of a well designed game. Pretty graphics are mesmerizing. But following arbitrarily designed rules and solving riddles created for the sole purpose of having an end goal for the game,—especially when one has a teenager-like disdain for authority—is more aggravating than having to follow rules in the real world.