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Technically, a hobby is a LEISURE activity not meant for profit or as your vocation... however, I ended up turning Plastic Models building and Model Railroad construction into a nice little side business that makes me about $40K a year.

2007-07-14 08:53:58 · answer #1 · answered by mariner31 7 · 1 0

It really doesn't profit you if you gain the whole world, but lose your ongoing good influence. Should you harm anyone in gaining quick profit, you will surely end up paying the price yourself in some manner, shape or form!

Maybe you can gain good ongoing influence by choosing hobbies that give you a learning curve that is gradual but also influential. Active sport, for instance, can teach you skills that can lead you towards helping others, while at the same time prepare you for an excellent paying career in any of many career paths.

Be wary of hobbies that are flippant!

By "flippant", I mean pass-times that waste your energy or time, and lead you nowhere but down the path of selective memories...Never allow yourself to become hypnotized, because hypnotism "works" by deluding you, and delusion steals from you, your opportunities to make right decisions!

If you make too many wrong decisions, you will certainly not profit in the long run, and will sooner or later, probably sooner, get caught out.

If you are looking to make a lot of excess money, you had better properly learn what money is and how to use it.

Governments deliberately choose to devalue their currencies over time, no matter what they might want you to believe. They call it inflation and will blame all manner of causes for it without themselves claiming their own ownership of it. Let me explain...

Money is just an accountable means which allows an equitable sharing, and the paying for needed goods and services, within any common wealth's own economic system. Governments allow inflation so their own distributed monies become used and not abused. The higher the inflation rate is, the less incentive there is for individuals to amass large portions of it in such a way that there is a large gap between the rich and the poor within their societies. Understanding this principal will allow you to make good use of your earnings and to realize, that your amassing large portions of wealth, and leaving it dormant, helps no-one... not even yourself!

If you want to be really rich, be responsible, and in this way be influential. Get others to work under your control, and pay them properly to do their productive work for you. If you do this, and do it properly, you will never be bored, and be ever supported by your staff who will respect you for your fairness. You will find that your money will turn over in such a way as to keep itself truly currently valued. Your money will be "currency" which will be truly working for you!

All that is true provided your government remains equitable, and is why, and how, democracies generally work better than autocracies.

Democracies generally leave you influential enough to be able to pursue your own hobbies, and that is partly what freedom is all about!

As Jesus once asked... "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul?"

Hope this advice suits you.

Bob D

2007-07-14 10:07:33 · answer #2 · answered by Bob D 2 · 0 1

well, first, you have to discover where you are good at, then you can start a hobby that is based on that. to profit from it, you have to start a business based on that hobby. marketing your services to other hobbyist definitely helps. and you have to stick to your hobby to make profit in the long run.
the list of possibilities are immense so it all depends on your preference.

2007-07-14 13:02:35 · answer #3 · answered by gjerico_velayo 2 · 0 0

I see photography on the list already.

Let me just repeat that one, if you are a talented photographer, the opportunities are everywhere.

2007-07-14 12:11:07 · answer #4 · answered by Yarnlady_needsyarn 7 · 0 0

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