Turning Your Hobbies into a Paid Job

Turning Your Hobbies into a Paid Job

Raise your hand if you ever think about leaving your job and do something you are passionate about! Hey there! You are not alone. There’s nothing compare of spending a lot of time to do what you like and you are paid for that. Plus, you can be a boss for your own business. It’s a win-win situation which makes everyone mouthwateringly chasing this position.

Turning your hobbies into a paid job in such a way sounds interesting, but is it possible? If you enjoy spending your spare time to cook, make a crochet, or simply taking pictures of something around you or spending your weekend time for gardening, you should start to think of making your hobby as a business.

Before taking a giant step of leaving your job, and planning to start a new business with your hobbies. Think about the answer of this question, is your hobby marketable?

Take a moment to think about it. Is your hobby marketable? Is anyone interested to pay you for it? You can start by doing research to define whether your hobby is marketable or not. Use the internet to browse is there anyone who has done it before, so you can learn their experience or you can set your goal to become the pioneer of doing this job.

Put in mind and make sure that your hobby is marketable, means somebody is willing to spend some money to pay for a product you’ve made. To make it simple, let’s imagine who will pay you for picking M&M’s blue marble chocolate from a bowl compare to paying some money for homemade cupcake decorated with Avenger’s superheroes figures. Being passionate about something is one thing, being passionate about something marketable is another.

Do you think that heaven is coming a bit closer when your hobbies turn into a job? Wait a moment, how if you are getting bored of doing your job since you have a very demanding clients?

When you are building your own business with your hobby, just remember that you cannot build your own business empire by your own. You need client that will buy your product, so your business can continue growing. This type of job shift may change your feelings about your hobby. When it comes to work, it won’t be the same. The fun part could be taken out from what you are doing.

Instead of thinking how much flexibility you get from making this business, share your time to set your goal, how your business will grow in the next couple of years, setting deadlines, and finding strategy to do yourhobby in someone else’s way. Trust me, it won’t be easy at the beginning but you will eat your crispiest croissant after experiencing some failures while baking them. Remember, champions are made not born with it.

You are considered as having no personal experience when you starting your business. Though you have been doing these things for years, your personal experience won’t necessarily be acknowledged professionally. Start your path from the bottom. Do what it takes to get the experience. For example, if you love cooking and plan to make your catering business, you can use the moment of Eid al Fitr or Christmas to work in a company near to your house which produces cookies or meals. Do it for gaining experience and practice your ability to handle clients’ problems and complaints. Forget about how much payment you will get. Put in mind that you do this to learn the business and gain experience in order to develop your professionalism.

If you already prepare your possible answer of all the above considerations, you can make a go, but if you don’t know where to start still. Don’t worry, you can consult with your friend who might have the same interest with you or if you have extra budget, you can hire an expert to give you an advice for setting up your business plan. It is important to understand the basic of the business that you are about to build, you can learn it by making a business plan. The world out there is a real competition for you whether to make your business fail or success. Setting up business plan could give you a picture of what your business would be, your target, and how will you develop your business in the next couple of years.

What is the next step after setting up a business plan? There are still thousands of task you need to do to make your business become your money maker empire. First of all, you need to advertise. Advertise, advertise and advertise! It’s not merely advertising on a newspaper, you can start from the easiest one by getting the word to everyone you know. Mouth to mouth advertising can be an effective way to promote your product. You can start from your family, your neighborhood, schoolmates, or you can engage social media to promote your product. Many people start using social media to advertise your product and it works. You can use facebook, twitter, instagram, path, etc.

At the end of your first trial, you may be failed to achieve your goal, like there’s only few people who are interested to your product. Calm down, the sky ain’t falling dear. Don’t underestimate the unpaid hours you’ll have to put in to get your project off the ground. But, hopefully, if you are passionate about what you are doing, the hard work will pay off in time. In easy word, never give up!

Just a tips if you think of leaving your job while starting your hobby based business, I would suggest don’t do it! Staying a few moments in your job can save yourself from financial risk after leaving your job. In the other hand, you can combine your day job with working on your hobby based business in the evenings or at weekends, so you can take it from there. Finally, turning your hobbies into a paid job is extremely possible but there are some considerations you need to go through while making it happens. It’s not a one day job, your success is built from rise and fall, loser to winner, failure to success, over all, just do your best on whatever you are doing and never give up!.