Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.

Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

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Cake day: August 27th, 2024

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  • ‘Do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’.

    It’s a nice sentiment, but sadly the moment you depend on it for survival, it becomes work.

    In another comment just now, I mentioned my hobbies include making knives/swords, leather work, and some light carpentry.

    I love all these things. I make a pretty neat and simple metal rose that I can do different things with for coloring, and those sell like hotcakes around valentines day. But every year, I only make a handful for a few people here and there, and almost always as gifts. I never make a bunch of them beforehand with intent to sell “to someone”, that’s work. That’s unenjoyable for me.

    I could make bank in my area if I invested my savings into metalworkingnstuff stuff and focused on custom knives for hunting and camping, but the thought of that makes me want to kick my anvil and forge into the lake.

    I suppose the response to that should be “well I just haven’t found the thing I truly love” yet, but I just don’t believe there is anything of value that I could provide to anyone that I would enjoy so much that it never feels like work and pays all my bills.

    I long for the utopian future of post-scarcity…


  • that’s still work: you’re creating something of value for others and/or for society

    Honestly I put “NEED to get paid in order to live” but changed it to “I NEED to work” because of this. Even if I just decided to find a forest in the middle of nowhere to claim as my own, build a house, raise animals and farm the land I’m still working.

    But since I do enjoy my hobbies of carpentry, metalworking and leatherworking, I don’t really consider them work in the same sense. You’re 100% correct.

    I make stuff for people all the time, but it’s on my own schedule when I feel like working on something, and I only accept orders when I feel like it. If I tried to do that full time, it’s now not really up to me if I go work on something today. I have to or I get backed up, the customer gets pissed, and I’m losing money. Or the equivalent favors/barter.