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Originally Posted by kypreanus
All this effort for peanuts is making me re think stuff and appreciate everything more.
Your hobbies are allowed to just be fun. The tires on my road bike are $50/each with $5 tubes. The chain is $50. You wear out all of those every 1K-2K miles. You could go down the list. Poker is a job for very few people, so "didn't make much money" is an argument that matters little to most of us. Making any money in a 2/4 game is a huge accomplishment, the rake potentially makes zero winners standard. Going into any hobby and looking for it to be a very profitable job seems strange -- you do stuff you like because you like it. If somehow your love of long distance hiking makes you found the next GoLight, then you won the lottery. Winning poker player making it a job is less of a stretch, but out of all the people who enjoy playing...
How profitable is cross country skiing? Do people who do that stop and ask each other "did we make enough for this to be worth it?" I want to break even or not lose enough that my wife doesn't have to ask "how the *** did you lose so much money in 4 hours?" Making money is a fun bonus, but not the point of the exercise.