[paulcole]

> To put it another way, the best side businesses -- and indeed the best jobs -- are getting paid for things that are like the things you would do if you did not get paid.

I feel the complete opposite.

The things I really really really enjoy doing with my time are not (realistically) for sale. They are for me.

If you said I could make $250k a year by reading 100 books a year (a bit less than what I read on my own), I’d think long and hard about accepting.

I probably would because it would be interesting to test my assumptions, but I’d imagine it’d be less fun that reading them for free.

[brudgers]

The things I really really really enjoy doing with my time are not (realistically) for sale

Do you sell your time for doing things you don’t love doing?

[paulcole]

Yes! People pay me a lot of money to do things that I don’t love doing.

[brudgers]

Would you rather be paid to read books?

[paulcole]

No, I thought I made that fairly clear in my earlier post.

There are things I do for me and things I do for money. The two don’t overlap often and I have little interest in them overlapping significantly.