The average person wants to turn their hobby into a day job because the average person's day job sucks (the sucking is typically why someone else pays someone to do it).
Figuring out how to make money from something is also an interesting problem. It also is an excuse to learn more about people who do make money from it. For example, wanting to make money from writing is an excuse to watch Stephan King talk about writing on Youtube...
...and if you watch Stephen King talk about writing, you'll learn that Steven King writes every day as if writing is normal and that provides an excuse to treat the act of writing as normal, and that can reduce the self-inflicted inhibitions to writing.
tell you how much money you should be making from it, and encourage you to monetise it
This is an ordinary way of paying a complement among people who don't have an informed opinion about the activity.
For example, "You should make an app and sell it in the app store," often completely ignores the logistics of app development and the expected economic rewards of an app once it is in the app store.
The uniformed opinion is also usually the basis for "I should make money from this." I mean Steve King still writes stuff with an eye toward what will sell, that's why Stevorini has an editor, an agent, a publicist, and a publisher.
And lawyers to negotiate contracts for book deals.
>The average person wants to turn their hobby into a day job because the average person's day job sucks
I have a metahobby: I collect hobbies. Invariably someone will tell me I should try to make money from one of them and my response is always "I HAVE a JOB, and I like it. I do this for fun. But thank you."
Also, a lot of people don't realize the skills of {HOBBY_X} and the skills of {SELLING_HOBBY_X} are usually quite different and few people possess proficiency and interest in both.
Figuring out how to make money from something is also an interesting problem. It also is an excuse to learn more about people who do make money from it. For example, wanting to make money from writing is an excuse to watch Stephan King talk about writing on Youtube...
...and if you watch Stephen King talk about writing, you'll learn that Steven King writes every day as if writing is normal and that provides an excuse to treat the act of writing as normal, and that can reduce the self-inflicted inhibitions to writing.
tell you how much money you should be making from it, and encourage you to monetise it
This is an ordinary way of paying a complement among people who don't have an informed opinion about the activity.
For example, "You should make an app and sell it in the app store," often completely ignores the logistics of app development and the expected economic rewards of an app once it is in the app store.
The uniformed opinion is also usually the basis for "I should make money from this." I mean Steve King still writes stuff with an eye toward what will sell, that's why Stevorini has an editor, an agent, a publicist, and a publisher.
And lawyers to negotiate contracts for book deals.
Good luck.