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Originally Posted by montsnmags
I'm not saying that one leads to the other, but, in my case, 18 months ago, I would have said the same thing. I'm not short of "hobbies" (writing, photography, bushwalking (the Noosa Heads National Park starts 100m up the road at the top of the hill), beaching) - it's just a bit like getting a whole table filled with chocolate and pastries and icecream every day, and being told to "go for it". Where does one start, knowing that one should have worked through the health main course before starting dessert.
That is, I hear what you (and others) are saying...but it might not be quite as easy to get out of a lifelong habit of obligation and working as you might expect, especially when the options explode out in front of you.
Seriously (and I'm not complaining), I'm about to start scheduling my leisure.
Geoff, lend us a hand here, will you? 
Cheers,
Marc |
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Originally Posted by nekokami
Agreed on the value of "backroom" tasks. Always in demand!
I have two or three specific things I'd like to be devoting more of my energies to right now. One is a manga title I'm working on. Another is my doctorate. A third is a card game I'm developing. I'd say those are the top three efforts I'd be putting my energies into if I didn't have a day job. So I suppose I've already scheduled my leisure.
The only reason the manga got listed before the doctorate, btw, is that it's summer, so that's what I'm working on currently. The card game is actually ready to go, but too expensive to print (especially after one printer failed to deliver and still owes me money), so I'm working with my brother and his slave labor--er-- students to develop an online card game server that will not only make my game available, but will be able to host original games developed by others. It's astoundingly expensive to get card games printed at anything like professional quality.  |
Card game - sounds intreging -
(hint-hint)
Geoff...
(you know, the young one)