HARD WORK DONE FOR A HOBBY DOESN'T FEEL SO HARD
I am so excited to participate in another episode of the hive-learners weekly prompt, this topic is one of the best topics that excite me to write about.
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One of my best hobbies is cooking, I do this often without complaining or tiredness, cooking is what I do in my leisure time, and always happy whenever I am doing it.
Cooking has been part of me since I was little, I was not trained by anyone, but I have a gift naturally that made me feel in love with it, cooking is part of me and it I have benefitted from it so much.
Cooking has benefitted me in so many ways, I do cook when I was in school as part of my side hustle, not a long-time chef though but whenever any of my friends are celebrating birthdays they will call me to come and cook for them.
I remembered the last time I cooked at my friend's birthday party and one of his friends stood up and said who cook this food, I will love that person to cook for me on my birthday, my friend pointed at me and the guy complimented me and gave me his contact to call and offers to pay me for the service.
That was my first pay as my talent benefitted me in that aspect, and it did not stop there, last week my brother came home and said one of his colleagues at work need someone to prepare food for him because he is defending his project as a Ph.D. student and needs someone that can cook for thirty people at most, my brother said he immediately recommended me to him and gave the man my number.
I told my brother I was not ready for this, I only cook to enjoy myself not as a profession, I learned make-up, not a caterer, not long the man called me and said someone recommended you to me, I said yes and we bargain the price, it is very hard for me to call price for him because I know nothing about it, it is just a hobby for me and people around me are turning it to profession.
If I can turn my hobby into a real-time profession it will pay well for me because I have a lot of people who need my service on this but I have to learn more about it and how to charge them, this has been a big deal for me when I am not into it.
Some weeks ago my friends called me and we all connected on Whatsapp to make a conference call, all they were saying is they missed my cooking, the way I cooked when we were in school, and all the time we shared, they remembered this because one of us is celebrating his birthday next week and the conversation came up.
Without turning my hobby into real Time profession has been paying well for me not to talk of turning it into a real profession, I love cooking and I am always happy doing it, it does trigger happiness in me, whenever I am cooking I will be singing and rejoicing and my inner mind will be fulfilled.
This is my response to #hl-w75e1 contest. Thank you all for your support and comments.
Hmmm , yummy!!! You are carrying me to where u don't know ooo, this is really good , I will tell my wife to prepare it for me too.🤪🤪
Lol, tell your wife to make you a delicious meal and do not follow me so that I will not carry you to where you don't know. Thank you for your support
You are welcome
Thank you for sharing. Why don't you try taking a culinary course? In the future you could open your own restaurant or even a food truck. It doesn't say you have to quit your day job, it could be a family business.
You are right, Maybe I will consider that in future
Cooking is lucrative, I have tasted the money from the field and know what it feels like. I can tell from your creative Sunday post that you are an excellent chef.
I hope you turn this hobby into a big money pot in the nearest future.
Thank you dear, it is just a hobby Maybe I will try and reconsider it in the future. Thank you for your support
Wow this is a beautiful one. I love cooking as well but really not in my hobby tho, i don't know why. But from what i see here you should be a wife material. Nice post
I love men that cook as well, Maybe your own is a result of laziness or you do not have passion for it. Thank you for your support
Hahaha 😂😂🤣
This part got me laughing out loud
Yesooo, you really need to learn how to charge otherwise, you might be at lost after cooking..lol
For anyone who have time to cook, it's a lucrative business Indeed..I have tasted and believed
Everything is all about money, let me go through a normal procedure and come back and charged them, it really pays and is very lucrative
Sometimes we don't take that beautiful hobby seriously because we don't tend to make money from it, just like mine
Singing is my hobby in fact I don't get tired and my voice doesn't crack even if I sing from now till tomorrow but still I never thought of making money from it..
Even though I do get paid right from when I was little in my mom's church because the pastor love my voice so he always pay me so they I could come over again but as an adult I just enjoy singing and not for money
My dear, it is good to cherish your talent, I can only sing in the bathroom, anything apart from the bathroom is a no for me. Thank you for your support.
I think we should form a team or what do you think? Trust me I cook very well too, lol.
Nice to know you can make little money from what you enjoy doing for free. Like your friends said, don't you think you should explore owning a food business. If I sponsor you 75% would you start 🤔
I will be happy to be your partner
Cooking is a very lucrative business as demand for food is non negotiable in our everyday life especially for celebration.
I also do some catering job while in college although not as hobby but side hustle and I know how much i was able to make from it.
Maybe it's time you focus your energy on what you love the most and already attained mastery level at it.
Goodluck to you
Thank you dear
Every human being has some quality that he can earn some money for himself like if you know how to cook then you can earn money by cooking it is very good and clean job. By taking interest in these things we become successful. You have written very well
your hobby turns out to be the part time job for you but I think you are not ready to make it full time or more than that. Everyone else is pushing you hard to earn through your cooking hobby and they are doing the right thing for you, just take those opportunities and you will get more customers automatically. I hope someday, we will be visiting you in your own restaurant soon. Good luck and take the profitable advises.
I have a full-time profession, and I do not want to go into cooking fully, but maybe later I can reconsider and also welcome you into my restaurant
well, thats good thinking and future planning. Most of us just leave our hobbies behind when we are working full time jobs so it is a suggestion not to leave behind your cooking hobby as it will surely give you a lot in future when required. And about your own restaurant, yes we will be waiting for the invitation, I hope Hivers wont be charged at your restaurant hahaha
I will not charge you much
it means you will charge us 😜
Not much
Hive Very own chief Cook
Please kindly notify me, whenever you prepare that yummy Fried rice with fish 😋
Let's do a review
No problem I will notify you
Firstly are you single ? If yes then we just got married....
I am single I think we can choose this Saturday for our wedding
Saturday is it, where should we do the wedding, how many guest ??
At my house of course
Alright my wife
Alright husby