• bro@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I fell into this trap with one of my main hobbies.

    I’ve always loved Aquariums and plants, and found my favorite niche in aquascaping planted aquariums. It gets expensive. I needed money to support my hobby and life. I sold a few extra plants and realized I could start making the hobby pay for itself. Everytime I sold something I’d add to the fishroom. I made ok money and eventually built an impressive aquarium collection.

    I got a bit burnt out, realizing I was spending all my hobby energy on farming and selling, rather than creating aquascapes. My selling channels also mostly dried up, and I don’t have the drive anymore to search for other markets.

    Now I’m weighed down with a fishroom that I still keep running, but pay little attention to. Not sure what I should do with it.

    I still sell occasionally, so if anyone wants any aquatic plants or shrimp, I have plenty…

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      1 year ago

      What an amazing hobby! I’m sorry it turned into a what it did. I’ve had this experience countless times.

      Every time I want to start anything, my brain always blows it up into something so grand, that I no longer enjoy doing that thing. The processes become so tedious, that I become burnt out on the journey to become “the best”.

      I’m having to put a lot of work to keep this community simple. I can still feel the creep of wanting to do more, like learning how to build a bot for auto summaries, etc. For now, it’s all good here though.

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        1 year ago

        My brain does the same thing, but I’m trying to 're’learn how to just enjoy hobbies without having to push them to their maximums.

        I will say, though, that built in automation is a good idea for even the simplest of hobbies, so bots may be a good move for you. My fishroom is mostly automated at this point. It’s nice not having to worry about every detail of care.