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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 understand whether those passions could into a more professional level where I can have some return of the investment (CapEx).
- 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. channel dauvi video channel youtube channel
- 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
- cnc
- vector design
- laser
- vector design
- websites
- styling, icon
- 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 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