BossQ, you must have a hobby, right?

It is almost certain that everyone has a specific hobby. Usually, these various hobbies are done in free time to relieve stress. Covered by Kompas, a research in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine publication revealed that 34% of respondents who did activities they liked in the midst of work and daily activities felt free stress, with indications of a more stable heart rate and the presence of a feeling of calm for hours.

With the pressures of today's life, hobbies may be considered a waste of time and put aside. In fact, everyone is susceptible to stress. It is important to feel stress in optimal amounts, but having too many burdens and responsibilities has the potential to worsen the stress you are experiencing. Healthline explains a number of impacts of stress on our lives, including increasing the possibility of disease, making us look older, and even disrupting our relationships with those closest to us. Danger too, huh!

Even though it seems simple, hobbies do play an important role in our lives to bring feelings of joy, provide time to relax, and become a means of channeling something more positive in nature.

So, how do we balance our time between work and hobbies?

Did you know that hobbies can also be a source of income? Today's world of work is much more varied and includes a number of forms of work that can start from hobbies. Now, we don't have to be confused about choosing one over the other. Some hobbies can also produce quite satisfying income, so you can carry out your main job and develop your hobby as part time or freelance work. Is your hobby one of them?

Turning a Passion into a Job, Permanent or Freelance

1. Write

Who has loved writing in a diary since childhood? If you really have a hobby of writing, you can use this hobby as a source of income. By becoming a writer, you don't even need to come to the office and can work anywhere. An example of work that you can start doing is becoming a freelance writer for certain media or websites. Later you will be paid per article. The more hours you fly, the more wages you get. For fiction fans, you can also start writing short stories and novels or even become a freelance writer. Along with your writing journey, if you are able to publish various kinds of books, both fiction and non-fiction in the coming years, don't hesitate to send them to several publishers. You would definitely be proud to see your book displayed in a bookstore!

2. Photography

For photography lovers, it turns out there is money that you can make from your shots. Don't believe it? First, you can sell your works on several websites stock photo service providers. Then, you can become a freelance photographer who provides documentation services for various important moments or works in someone's life, from wedding photographers, events, to advertising purposes. Whatever form of service you offer, the most important thing is that you keep your photography portfolio neat and tidy. To be more effective, you can organize your work based on the clients you have successfully worked with, so that the portfolio looks more convincing to potential new clients. Remember, photographers are expensive!

3. Painting

Everything related to art definitely has its own value. Not much different from writing or taking photos, painting can also produce works that can shock the world and are worth up to hundreds of millions of rupiah. If you are talented and like doing this activity, you can present promising opportunities. Try to squeeze this activity in as part time work in between your main activities. Painting is not just applying paint on canvas, but also has its own beauty and character. Painting is a job that requires sensitivity and subtlety of touch, so the price of the work can be high.

4. Playing Music

In the past, pursuing a music career may have been an unreasonable career choice, but today's reality is clearly different. Apart from the variety of musical instruments that can be mastered, technology has also made the work of musicians much easier. For those of you who like music, you can also pursue it by producing your own work. Now, many Indonesian musicians have succeeded from zero thanks to their work and persistence in promoting it to the public. The door to the opportunity to create through music, either professionally or as a pastime, has opened wide. For those of you who prefer to entertain listeners through other people's work, a freelance job that you can try is performing regularly in a number of cafes or malls as a session player, which has proven to promise quite good income.

5. Cooking

Instead of only enjoying your cooking skills at home, it's a good idea for you to think about opening a culinary business. In the midst of the pandemic, business opportunities in the home food industry are also increasing, especially with the help of social media. No need to think complicatedly, you can start simple, for example by making various small snacks and selling them in campus or school areas. You can also entrust your cooking creations to the wet cake seller at the market. So, if you want to try more seriously, you can open your own shop. Nowadays there are more and more successful entrepreneurs with small culinary businesses which then grow big.

6. Traveling

It cannot be denied that today's young people really like traveling or traveling with very diverse interests, ranging from camping or hiking in the mountains, going to the beach, or just traveling in new cities. Well, with this hobby, you can actually earn extra income! The simplest example is taking a job as a tour guide in the place you are visiting. This is clearly an exciting opportunity, but make sure you can speak English to optimally entertain tourists from abroad. In addition, you can produce articles and photos from your travels, which are then sent to several websites or media to be turned into articles. Another option for those of you who like shopping and traveling abroad is to open a goods deposit service (jastip) with your relatives. The Margin that you take from the price of the entrusted goods is what becomes your income. Exciting, right?

7. Graphic Design

Don't waste your abilities on this one. For those who like to tinker with Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator applications for drawing, graphic designer services are highly sought after in today's world of work. Everyday human attention is focused on the gadget screen, so competition for interesting visual content is increasingly high. Thus, similar to photography services, graphic designer services also have high prices. This is where you can maximize this hobby into freelance work, part time work options, or even your main job. By tidying up your portfolio, you can offer this service to several potential clients.

8. Drawing Caricatures and Comics

In contrast to painting which is more concerned with elements of beauty through lines and strokes, making caricatures and comics can be used as a source of income with more opportunities. In caricatures or comics, there is usually a series of stories to be depicted. This valuable form of work, even though it seems simpler, can be tried from now on without much special equipment. You don't have to take it very seriously, you can do freelance work with this hobby. For example, you work with a friend who is good at composing stories, while you take on the role of illustrator. Apart from that, with the high level of consumption, there are already many sites that make money through comic works, for example several webtoon service providers. Have you ever imagined before that a simple hobby of drawing could bring income?

9. Shopping

For girls who like shopping, it turns out this activity is not just about spending money. Now, shopping doesn't always have to be consumptive, but it can also be productive! You can take advantage of your shopaholic nature and make it a source of income. First, you can resell your shopping goods at a higher price. To be able to do this, don't forget to choose quality products when shopping and maintain their condition during use. Second, you can work with an offline or online shop that you trust to become a dropshipper, which many young people now do as freelance work in their spare time. Usually, they will give low prices for those of you who have subscribed. Lastly, of course you can offer jastip if you really like traveling abroad.

10. Public Speaking

Can talking a lot be a source of income? Why not? Gossiping can be an opportunity to prepare yourself to earn money. It could be that your good talking spirit comes from your hobby of gossiping or talking about other people. This habit is considered not good, but it could have great potential if we are able to direct it more precisely. Try to take the positive side. First, you must have good speaking skills. From here, you can register yourself as an entertainment or national news anchor. Those of you who have a flexible way of speaking can also hone this ability to become a host or event guide, whose role is important in making the atmosphere more exciting and enjoyable. If along the way you feel that you are suited to this field, you can also combine this speaking ability with the knowledge you have acquired. That way, you can develop a less than commendable hobby into a professional job and career.

11. Sewing

If you have a big interest in the world of fashion creation or fashion design, try the lyrics of Ni Luh Ary Pertami Djelantik's journey. Quoting the article Swara, this woman from Bali has a great love for shoes. Armed with only a little capital and simple marketing, Niluh has now managed to become a successful entrepreneur in the world fashion industry with her shoe design and production. For those of you who like designing your own clothes, don't take it for granted and just enjoy it yourself. Try developing your skills further by being creative with unique designs. For starters, you can upload or post the clothes on social media and sell them via that platform. You can also sell it first to your closest friends. If they prove they like it, it means you have the potential to develop and start marketing your product more widely.

Well, here are a number of hobbies that you can use to become a promising job, whether as a main job, freelance or part time work. We can easily find the eleven hobbies above in everyday life, both with ourselves and with others. Access and connectivity which are now so sophisticated have proven to open up a wider field of money for those of us who are willing to recognize, try and work on it.

Do you have one or two? If there is, let's take advantage of it so you can get additional income. Interested in trying?