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can hobbies become something more than expenses
hobbies into profession
When I had the chance I expanded a lot in learning new skills and in buying gears which could help me generate additional income. The professional career spiega business helped me to invest in upskilling. Now I feel I need to convert those passions into a more professional level where I can have some return of the investment.
- media
- video making, sound, music, recording, 3d, photography
- network
- contacts, social, marketing, branding
- languages
- conferences, client visits, mediation
- handcraft
- carpentry, metal, wood
- electronics
- design and solder
- performance
- art, dancing and acting
- writing
- stories, blog posts, essays, history
- food
- cooking and beverage
- outdoor
- sail, hike, climb, paddle, ski
Figure 1: Enhance your skills
retail
Hobbies comes along with a passion for retail. I visit many physical stores and their products, I compare prices, ask questions and watch tons of reviews. I want to be able to judge the quality and utility of goods which helps me in many occasion to transfer these learning to devices I couldn't be judging otherwise.
- quality
- decide what is the bare minimum for the output otherwise (cameras, mics) will be completely useless
- release
- it's hard to know whether a new release is worth buying. The difference between insta360 x3 and x5 are immense and I felt I needed to upgrade. In many other cases it was not necessary
Figure 2: Enhance your skills
procurement
I highly underestimated the effort of knowing what to buy. I often had to interrupt a work I was doing to run to a shop and buy what was missing and have less flexibility on the price. With proper planning I could buy in advance items which I thought they could be useful and which where indeed necessary later on. In that way I could save a lot in expenses. I bought as well items I could never use which I regret buying.
- electronics
- I buy it for particular hardware specs but then the software makes it useless, I hope I can hack them one day with vibe coding
- technology
- you can always buy a more advanced gear but it's important to set a limit. For me for example was clear I never wanted 4k nor 10bit colors
media
Media are essential to promote themselves and to brand services. Learning how to create professional content helps to increase reach.
- video making
- cameras, lights tripods
- sound
- microphones, tripods, sound cards, mixer
- music
- instruments, gears, synths, daw
- graphics
- digital art, painting
Figure 3: media library
video making
Video making is an essential skill to promote an activity
- camera
- 360, macro, bokeh,
- drones
- fpv, acro
- lenses
- lenses
- edit
- multimedia utils
- CGI
- acrobatics, video to 3d,
- lights
- tripods
- reflector
Figure 4: media library
sound
- microphone
- binaural,
- tripods
- sound card
- mixer
- voice over
- enrich your videos with explanations
graphics
- logos
- vector design
- websites
- styling
- stamps
- stamp
- gelli print
- miniatures
- miniatura
music
Main article.
- composition
- bolla
- folk
- donna lombarda, real folk
- electronic
- vhs,
- loudspeakers
- loudspeaker, subwoofer, loudspeaker, loudpspeaker,
- techno synth
- katamaran, volkspark, pandino,
- repair
- violin, bass, clarinet, sax,
- soundtracks
- retina, scream
- ambient
- funtanel, creek, brook, luina, oneiric,
- instruments
- violins
- dj
- viudi mix
- DAW
- soundfont
- DIY
Figure 6: media library
network
Once you produce your content you need to publish it and make it visible
- contacts
- you personal contacts made in working or casual context
- social
- social platforms
- marketing
- where you make your content visible
- branding
- what is the awareness of your brand
- advertising
- do you need additional channels for increasing the reach?
Figure 7: media library
social
What I tried so far:
- two channels, good initial boost but then conversions decreased and demotivated me
- youtube
- started in 2015 but nowadays is really crowded
- viudi
- music channel youtube viudi channel viudi channel shorts
- dauvi
- professional services
- viudi good traction at the beginning but then the platform decided to show the posts to maybe 10% of my followers and I stopped
- viudi used for a month or so
- instructable
- viudi detailed presentation of the projects. Where most of the traffic for the project comes from
- soundcloud
- viudi low traffic
- dauvi professional services, it never worked out
- sab but never got interested
Figure 8: media library
handcraft
Project link
- sawing
- costumes for shooting,
- wood
- restore and build
- carpentry
- walls,
- foundry
- cast metal
- fablab
- 3d print, cnc
- electrics
- paint
- metal
- welding, cut
- gardening
- log storage,
- leather
- sandals
- perfumes
- flowers
- mechanics
- bike repair, vespa
wood
- restore
- wood,
- saw
- circular, band, chain
- lathe
- turn table
- cut
- knives
- pyrography
- pirografia
metal
- welding
- wheel barrow
- grinding
- garden tools
- repair
performance
- acting
- wg-gesucht, fairy shake, bubbles
- dance
- folk, forrò, lindy hop
- art
- prints
electronics
- circuit design
- preamp
- PCB
- soldering
writing
Story telling and blog posts
- tales
- a brief history, pirografia
- humor
- tigre e il roncolone, kakitui, tastal
- history
- middle-age, risorgimento, nuraghe, storia, suggestioni
- travels
- japan, himeji, nikko,
- feelings
- copiosi
- family
- family
Figure 9: media library
outdoor
Can you accompany people?
- sea
- marsa alam, krete
- animals
- tierpark
- bike
- grünwald
- boat
- cyclades, eolie, golfo. wing, kayak, villasimius, ice, rudder repair,
- hiking
- segala, brenta, foliage, altissimo, winter colors, pizzocolo, dorizzo,
- climbing
- baldo,
- urbex
- obi one,
- diving
- nordhusia,
- ski
- gaver, albedo,
Figure 10: media library
languages
I learned languages for free, mainly talking in the evenings with friends. The language I definitely monetized is German which allows me to reach multiple clients. For the rest I'm not sure what would be worth the investment
- English
- necessary
- German
- surely a plus for career
- Italian
- I could cover a larger customer base
- Spanish
- helped a lot with traveling and some business context
- Portuguese
- limited business context
- French
- limited business context
I tried to learn other languages but those will require a strong investment and I'm not sure it will pay off
- Chinese
- some basic conversation
- Swahili
- basic conversation
- Esperanto
- long track in writing
- Japanese
- basic grammar
- Arabic
- basic grammar
- Russian
- basic conversation
food
Transform ingredients from the garden:
- chutney
- like salty marmalade
- syrup
- flowers
- roast
- coffee like roasting for tahini
- labna
- dense yogurt with flavor
- essences
- extract flavors with oil
Figure 11: media_cios