Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
I&#x27;m a musician.  Long term.  43 years old, been playing forever.  Don&#x27;t care if I get any success at it.<p>Not a hobby.  Makes money sometimes.  I play professionally.  For money. On stage.<p>If you play for your entire life, you can get really good at a ton of things.<p>I played pedal steel at a rehearsal for my country band tonight.  I played piano at a rehearsal for my hot club jazz band on Monday.  I played upright bass at a rehearsal for a string band last night.<p>Sunday I recorded a new track with my girlfriend, ambient techno (novation circuit, moog, girlfriend&#x27;s esoteric warblings).<p>Monday I finished an EDM track.<p>I have a bunch of aspirational goals.  I&#x27;d like to DJ at my local ecstatic dance.  I&#x27;d like to front a Louis Prima style jazz band.<p>I&#x27;ve been playing trumpet and trombone every day for the last 2 months.<p>I don&#x27;t care if I have any professional success.  But hard to say all that is a hobby.  Maybe I&#x27;ll eventually be able to retire and just work as a musician, teaching and doing my little gigs and producing the records I engineer for other folks and running sound for the little parties we play out in the desert in Utah.<p>Don&#x27;t care.  My kids are raised, I&#x27;ve got a reasonable remote day job.<p>We&#x27;ll see how it goes.