I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money
I&#x27;m doing the opposite - doing unpaid work for a local hackspace like caring about the local non-profit mesh network and doing it-stuff for a local university group.<p>People just don&#x27;t seem to grasp the concept at all: a lot ask why we run the mesh network and how we finance it - if you explain them it&#x27;s run for free and there is no profit motive they think you are crazy. It&#x27;s also surprisingly popular to assume for free = useless - some declined running a node due to this.<p>On the other hand working for free in uni context is basically self-slaverly - lot&#x27;s of work, lot&#x27;s of stuff breaks constantly if you run your typical FOSS stuff and nobody is seeing the work and most don&#x27;t care or at worst you are blamed and new people advocating their favorite commercial cloud services.<p>It&#x27;s still fun and I can learn a lot, run some infrastructure for free where I can test stuff but you really need to be careful to not foul yourself and depending on the org you are in to not just work for free.<p>The saddest thing about the university thing is: If you advocate to pay that position a lot of - I&#x27;m just blunt here: &quot;rich kids&quot; advocate against it because you are at uni anyway and they tell you it&#x27;s an honour to do this... however if they don&#x27;t get refund for partly insane travel costs for their university pet project hell breaks loose...