Is content creation a job? D10499
Welcome back dear reader, in the following text you can read my point of view on the "new" content creation monetisation payed-to-live-a-vacation-lifestyle mentality.
so i am following a couple Whytubers and some of them are genuinly trying to educate or raise awareness for certain topics that i do or am interested in. this case was about "thevegancouple" who made a video about why they are giving up and changing how they do stuff.
this was not the first BEGreon coming out video i watched over the 2 years sinche path-rean established, actually i was listening and following the couple who made music before jack created his organisation of beggars paradise. they were making genuine good music with awesome editing and covers of course...but the expansion mindset and probably some midlife crisis pushed him to forge a different way of earning free money, or passive income as tradesmen like to call it.
so i saw their "i can't do free podcasts for you guys anymore, we are starting a patreon account so just give 1 dollar per month and you get our podcast" video...and made a hefty comment on one of their statement:
doing your hobby is never meant to be paying like a job...
harden the fuck up people...whyning excuse manufacturing...
"can't keep producing content for free" you CAN you just don't want to.
BIG DIFFERENCE! yeah going onto BEGreon...sure, pull the money from those who have it...i don't care...just stop being a weakling. or at least work on getting off it.
getting paid for your hobby is not the least you can do, it's the most you want to do! :D no salt, just tired of seeing bandwagoning whyners
of course this provoked an emotional response, as ever, which was one of my goals:
it's not a hobby, it is our job.
so it was clear they have built up a wall of ignorance for what their words mean :D hence my response:
job (n.) "piece of work; something to be done," 1620s, from phrase jobbe of worke (1550s) "task, piece of work" (contrasted with continuous labor), a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of gobbe "mass, lump" (c. 1400; see gob) via sense of "a cart-load." Specific sense of "work done for pay" first recorded 1650s. job. (1) A low mean lucrative busy affair. (2) Petty, piddling work; a piece of chance work. [Johnson's Dictionary] Meaning "paid position of employment" is from 1858. Printers' slang sense "piece of work of a miscellaneous class" (posters, handbills, etc.) is from 1795, hence job-type (notably large or ornamental or of exceptional form), job-shop, etc. Job lot (1832) is from an obsolete sense of "cartload, lump," which might be a separate formation from gob. The very broad general sense of "occurrence, business, state of things" is colloquial from c. 1700. In modern slang or colloquial use, "an example," especially a good one (of the thing indicated), 1927, "a term of wide application" [OED]. Thieves' slang sense of "theft, robbery, a planned crime" is from 1722. Slang meaning "specimen, thing, person" is from 1927. On the job "hard at work" is from 1882. Job security attested by 1932 (job insecurity by 1936); job description by 1920; job-sharing by 1972. Job-hunter is from 1928. The phrase job of work still appears as late as Trollope (1873). "
so which one is it from the above meanings? for me: a job is what you do when you are "employed by someone else to do an activity in exchange for money" and that 'someone' is singular! work is "an activity that requires moderate or high amount of energy put in" and hobby is "an activity purely done for the benefit of self, usually for recreation purposes", when one or group of people asks me to do an activity that is a SERVICE, which means: "an activity that has the purpose of doing something for someone else, with OR without an exchange of value" this is what my words mean to me. I do videos as a free service, i educate mostly as a free service, however some like to pay for it. i have multiple professions and chose one to WORK at a JOB and spend 10 hours of my day with it for money. and i also help out in a group which will become a developer company and i do WORK for free before it produces any profit because I LIKE DOING IT, and they lack the expertise, so currently it is a "hobby service that requires work". and what i see in your case is you want the money before you give your end of the deal, and you provide a service which requires work to make/provide. yet nobody ordered/asked/told you to do this so it is not a job. just like being self-employed is not a job, it's just work with or without payment or service. maybe this cleared it up better, and can re-read and comprehend the first comment better too. have fun!
doing stuff online, creating-content, how the professionals call it nowadays, is not a job. at most it's a service that you get paid AFTER doing. just like here on steemit. you do your thing, and maybe if people like it they will vote confidence in your material which you will get compensated by, simple. people can also donate to you directly if they want to contribute, which is my favourite and suggested way of supporting each other. GIFTING it' only beneficial for all parties included.
so to summarise, no it's not a job, unless you are an employee of certain media organisations who pay you to make content on the web, like newagencies tweet their stuff and similar. so don't expect to get paid before you deliver!
As always, I appreciate your time reading this, and when you are willing i will read your writings too, just leave a note of who you are, so i can gift my time to you equally like you just did.
i don't beg for upvotes or comments, do what you want, when you want it!