I've been a musician for a long time and taught music in high schools but now i'm retired i have been playing in a band and have learned about recording as a hobby. Last week i recorded a demo for an advertising jingle and was paid AUD$500! If the ad campaign goes ahead there are 36 recordings to do (12 versions in three languages)... all i was doing was having fun! woot!
Does anyone else have a hobby they make money from?
im sure that blogging is a hobby that many people make money with
Congrats on your recording deal. My longtime hobbies are reading novels and keeping aquariums and aviaries. So not much hope of making a significant living from those. In recent times I have developed an interest in the world wide web. I have heard that some people earn a lot through their blogs. It's a fascinating idea for me. But it takes a lot of know how I guess.
Hey well done! 
They say that if you can make money from something you trully enjoy then you will never work another day in your life.
Here's hoping things take off for you. hey good job!
As a hobby I paint and I'm planning to make enough paintings and have an exhibition. If all goes well, i hope people will be interested in my work ^^
| Captain Fertile wrote: |
Hey well done!
They say that if you can make money from something you trully enjoy then you will never work another day in your life.
Here's hoping things take off for you. |
To be honest, I want to keep it at the fun level. It was nice to get that job, but I wouldn't want to feel under pressure to find more work. The ca$h was just a bonus on top of a pleasant evenings activity. I don't want the money to become the focus of my efforts.I am not having any hobby which does earn me any money. But I love reading books, so maybe I will start a website on it, and start raking in tons of money... 
I don't even know how to get started. If you can integrate your hobby into the internet... there are ways to earn from it.
Frome, for instance, I have my blog and sites, which I get a bit of money from google adsense. 
AUD $500 for a recording thats a good amount of money to have from your hobby, i don't think most people would be able to make that much from their job..
... i think you are one of the lucky one's who have that opportunity. I think you will be very happy if he / she is able to make money from his / her hobbies. I like to play guitar and flute. Now, I will make my money from the Flute, guitar and folk song classes that I taught day from day.
It's very happy.
| blueman wrote: |
| AUD $500 for a recording thats a good amount of money to have from your hobby, i don't think most people would be able to make that much from their job.. ... i think you are one of the lucky one's who have that opportunity. |
I agree. I think it's probably something to do with the advertising industry. They seem to expect everything will be expensive. That $500 wasn't a fee I requested, it was just their first offer and I said yes.
Anyway I got some feedback and they like the demo, so we'll see what happens next.Congrats for you. It's always nice to earn money from your hobby. I can understand your concern on keeping it on this level, since turning a hobby to a fulltime job sometime can reduce the fun very much.
It's your choice, best wishes for you.
I've been making a living from my hobby for the past 11 years. I produce and direct television dramas.
In school, I always loved acting and directing and would always looks for an opportunity to put on a show or a play and this was my hobby back then.
Then I was in university, I used to act for the local tv station as a hobby, and when I graduated, I couldn't think of doing any job but that. So I joined the station and picked up the ropes of producing and directing and now I have my own production company. I'm not doing fantastically well, and I make just enough to feed my family, but I have never felt like I was "working" these past 11 years.
There was a time seven years ago when I did take up a different job, but that didn't last two months because it really felt like work! So I went back to my hobby again and here I am now.
I know my dad isn't particularly happy wth my choice of career - he wanted a doctor, a lawyer, engineer, or at least someone who puts on a tie and works in a decent office - but I really can't think of anything else I would rather be doing because this is so fun. And it all started out as a hobby.
I now teach my hobby at an educational institution on a part time basis too. It's just my way of sharing what I know to the next generation.
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Resource Centre for Digital Video Productions As a hobby and serious interest, I've been reading Tarot cards for about 25 years now. Just this December I started doing it professionally. Now I am a full-time Tarot Reader and I make 1,600 USD a month and up. And this is just the start. Once I get my van rolling again, I will be travelling around to fairs and other meet-and-greet opportunities, plus I will be selling merchandise. And now that this hobby is producing a taxable income, I get to write-off all the stuff I spend money on anyway. 
my hobby is thinking about how to improve things. since I'm still a kid, I don't think there's any way I'll be making money out of that but I sure hope to become one of them "user experience designers" that Cory Doctorow writes about in one of his novels.
also, have you guys heard about Hugh MacLeod? he does small cartoony drawings on the back of business cards and makes some money off of them too. you should check out gapingvoid.com if only to see his drawings.
Wow congrats on that
I am in the same boat, photography used to be a hobby of mine but know i've turned it into my occupation and making money off something I love to do. I'm also into a little music production and have some artistes coming out soon, so hopefully i'll make some money off that hobby. i'm running one cute site about german group Tokio Hotel.... it's a fan-club too and has really much to do in it every day.... so it's my hobby. but this hobby takes sooooooo much time, that i really think it should bring some money too. however, for now, i spend more money, than i get back from it... 
I teach kitesurfing. Which is my hobby.
It is no way enjoyable though. Using the limited time there is good wind to teach noobs.
but the money is good and its frikken easy to do.
wind season is over so no more $200 for 2 hrs work.
My hobby is web-design, so sometimes I do work for friends\clients, and get money for it. As usual it is not big money, but I get experience I think it's pretty easy to at least make a little pocket change for doing what you love to do in your own spare time. I knit, sew, do web design, photography...lots of artsy stuff, and people are usually more then eager to shell out a little cash for something that is unique and handmade, rather then being made overseas or in a factory. It helps push yourself in your craft(s) and just gives you a great deal of experience in the process, so everyone wins all around--they get a unique piece of work from someone, and you get to expand your horizons. I have many Hobbies I play a couple musical instruments such as the guitar,and the Hammered Dulcimer "The Ancient Piano".I am also a artist i love to draw all kinds of different things,perncil,charchol,pen.I've only done one ol painting but it turned out pretty nice.I can do portraits also.
I yousted to be in a band also and I had a 4 track recorder and I produced our first alblem with it.we didn't make any money off it though.
I have an idea to make money off of my painting hobbie.I am Going to take pictures of tractors at my Home Town fair This year or tr and find some photos that we're taken last year.. and paint tractors exactly the way they looked at the Fair and sell them at the fair the folowing year.
maybe someone will see there tractor and be very moved to buy the paice of art that was of something that the own...
I also love to mess around with photoshop and make animations in gif. format.it's so rewarding to see what you can accomplish after spending alot of time on it.I would like to make a website that I will sell some of my art work or do art work for people that have request of like portraits or something charchoal.
I dabble in alot of different things I guess ,I even yousted to do tattoos.for free lol. But I decided it wasn't for me although I know I could make good money doing it.I don't want to deal with the stress of it though I get worried that I would mess one up. 
I use to do web dev as a hobby and to get paid for it. I then found out that everyone is doing it and it turned into more of a barter option vs a paid option so not bad sometimes LOL
Designing websites is a fun hobby and you can sometimes get paid at least 25 GBP an hour.
| minik wrote: |
| Designing websites is a fun hobby and you can sometimes get paid at least 25 GBP an hour. |
Ahm... what do you mean by 25 GBP an hour? XDFace it. It is not our contries that sucks its us. Why in ecery country in the world the people say this country sucks. Money aren't easy deal its hard work . I know a lot about computing software and hardware.So what i get a dine or two now and then. My advice Get a real job get a real life. HOBBY is HOBBY. Its made for free time not work.
| CyberSpic wrote: |
| HOBBY is HOBBY. Its made for free time not work. |
can't agree more...
our hobbies are one of the things in our hectic life, doing which we can really relax. doing hobby, we can forget about everything - our troubles, the things we have to do, about work and responsiblity.... making money from a hobby... (i mean big money, which you could use to live on) will reduce the unicness of the thing we like to do... hobby will not bring us so much pleasure, as it used to... we would have to do it not from time to time, but everytday.. to make money of it... the it would stop being a hobby! and as a result we can lose it... ((i hobbies is teaching folk song, now , i can use the song to generate profit, it's good
My hobby is art and I'm happy that I can sometimes make money from it selling old and unnecessary works or doing commissions. But I never tried to make it my job or else. Art selling - good, I'm never against extra cas. Not selling - no tragedy for me, I tend to leave it as a hobby so I get pleasure from it.
I play the piano, and I'm teaching it to others. I do this for three years now, while I am still a student. It pays very well for now 
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And the best part: all of my students I have because of the internet: my frihosted site. So that became my second hobby, next to playing the piano. I'd love to make some money from my hobby, as film photography is a bit pricey AND being able to call yourself a pro seems to make people respect you in the photo world, even if you're not as good as someone who isn't...
Making money from a hobby hmmm? I suppose I have...
I used to really be into the MMORPG scene, played that for a while... And eventually smartened up and started selling in-game money for real life money, which supported my subscription to keep playing and then some....
Other major hobby of mine is making websites. Haven't really made anything off that yet, since I've only really made fun things for myself, and volunteered to be the webmaster for a local boy scout troop...
No pay of course, but it's cool doing what I enjoy for someone else.
My hobby is playing the guitar. I'm still student, but in the future i'd like to play in a band,( which i'm still looking for ) and earn money from my hobby. Of course "pleasant evening activity" would be more than money for me The tough thing about making money from a hobby is that once you choose to rely on that money as your main source of income, it no longer is a hobby and then becomes your job. If it is something you truly enjoy, then I believe you can have it become a job without it really feeling like a job. But once it becomes your job, then it can tend to become less enjoyable. It is a real blessing to find a job you love, or to turn a hobby into a profitable profession. Just make sure to enjoy it! It's all about loving what you do.
i play in a band called mouldylocks ( myspace.com/mouldylocks6) and we don't make a penny! indeed, we are geniuses but our music doesn't seem to interest anyone. a shame, cause music is a great hobby!
If only people would give me a chance....
yes, i like to make money from my hobbies, that is teaching guitar and flute
I am currently learning to use websites as a passive income resource but the tasks involved just shows time is pretty essential before you could see any rewards on your efforts. XDDD
Atm I'm doing some website jobs and have made about $500 totally.
I make dolls as a hobby, and I am starting to sell them on ebay. I have so many hobbies though, I paint, keep fish, make jewelry. I love to work with my hands. Which is good, because as a job I am a dental technician. I make dentures, crowns and bridges.
Absolutely nothing to stop you doing it if that is what you want ot do. Just go for it and don't listen to the doom and gloom merchants who have done nothing themselves.
Yeah!! same here!!
I allways DJ-ed for fun. And never considered actually getting paid for it. Perhaps a few parties with friends thats it. but after this one party they ( a local club) asked me to come back and become their resident DJ. Now 8 years later i played in more then 18 countries, and make a good buck out of it!
However it's not my "real" job, so all this money is extra! ( if i don't spend everything on buying new records) I don't exactly make money at one of my hobbies (although I do at others), I made a webpage....a person with the username Hammy fixed my page for me so that it would work though. 
I made the webpage to provide an outlet for my Main Hobby, which is research. I post what I find online. How to get medicine free, and well made, but inexpensive, glasses, and other things. I have had so many people give things to us (my family) that I wanted to give something back.
I am rambling... lol I LOVE looking things up....I do other things too...photography, ebay, write reports.... And yeah...all of these are hobbies, even the report writing. LOL I agree that hobbies can be work, and work can be a hobby...but I love the aspects of both...and the separation line blurs for me....
Miriah Money i think can be generated through your ideas but with your hard work also. Money is a luck factor as after having full knowledge and will you cannot make money and the person right in front of you is making mone through the tactics which you think are waste
My hobbies are camping, backpacking (trekking), exploring, and these along that line (pretty much any outdoor adventure). So unless I get lucky like Les Stroud from Survivorman or Bear Grylls from Man vs. Wild, I don't see myself making a lot of money from my hobbies.
i also make money from playing guitar I have a hobby which does pay for itself and I suppose makes a little on the side. It does involve standing at a wood lathe for 3/4 days a week making various turned articles (type "whistle turning" into your browser and follow the links is the quickest way to find out). Then spending days at a time at craft fairs, flogging to folk what you have made and they don't necessarily want, just kidding the product is of superb quality, even if it is me saying so. Could turn (no pun intended) into quite a business if I let it take over, but I have to go on courses 2 days a week (Golf of course 
) I am keeping try to make money from hobby.
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Designing graphics is kind of my hobby I guess, and I really enjoy doing it.
I haven't really made any money with it yet, but I am just looking for experience at the moment, but hopefully one day I will make money doing it.
I used to have loads of fun "paper trading" (Playing the stock market without money). After achieving a small degree of success, I began to use real money and again was successful enough not to lose any money, after a couple of months I was making a living - not a fortune - but a living. After about 8 months I got very burned-out from doing it. I can't even look at the financial section anymore. From now on I'll have to be careful to weigh the consequences of making money or losing a nice hobby.
you can make money from blogging ? when ? if you have more than a thousand visitors each day ?
I garden as a hobby and I swap most of the stuff there. I could sell about a hundred tomatoplants if I want most of the time what I cannot give away I throw away...
Wow, congrats on your recording deal.
If a person has profit in mind and engage in a hobby, can we still call it a hobby? And if a person engages in a hobby that turns into a profit making activity, does it still remain as a hobby? I have always thought of hobby as non-profit activity that is only meant to fulfill the pleasure and satisfy one's desires.
I have heard of people spending money on a hobby but earning from it doesn't qualify it to be a hobby anymore even though it is something that one likes to do. No?
I am currently 17 years old and I am a junior in high school and music is my ultimate passion. I write poetry and it's one of the most amazing things in my life. I've been writing poetry for 3 years or so, i will admit that I became pretty good at it. Another thing that I love doing is playing piano. I've played for 10 years now and 7 of those years I've taken lessons. I've gotten really good. I'm also a vocalist in a band. Our band is entitled Garden of Stone and we will get some stuff posted up as soon as we can find a web site. I'm trying to get on here. I bought a bunch of recording equipment that is set up in my trailer where our band records. High tech recording equipment and it really pays off. We're planning on releasing a cd during our high school's talent show where we plan to be playing next school year. We're really excited about all of this I'll admit and it's amazing. This summer we plan to get a lot of music and rehearsal done and I absolutly would die if I didn't have music to make my life complete and better.
Doesn't making money from your hobby like, not make it a hobby?
Making serious money from a hobby turns it from a hobby into a job - doesn't it ?
I've made small amounts from adverts on websites (Google Adsense anyone !!), and I also made some money when I took up refereeing (ice hockey) - but it does take the fun out of it IMHO.
Malcolm
