[tonyedgecombe]

Money seems to remove the joy from most activities. This is at the root of most of the complaints in this thread.

[avian]

Reminds me of this:

https://twitter.com/buttpoems/status/1335423879238455299

I started drawing as a hobby when I burned out in my academic career some years ago. I don't think I'm any good at it, but every once in a while I get an offer to do paid artwork. So far I declined all of them because I felt that would make me lose the relaxing escape from my day job.