how do you have SO much resources for all kinds of projects? trust fund child? inheritance?? there's no way you have a full time job, you wouldn't be able to cook food, do dishes AND post on tumblr AND do hobbies... early retirement???
Well since you asked so politely, here is an IN DEPTH response to all of your burning questions!
I work full time, and mention the fact that I work pretty often. I think the secret is that I'm usually neglecting a bunch of shit (dishes and cooking being good examples... but also I tend to cook one big thing and then eat leftovers for several days).
Due to chronic pain, I now work from home (i.e. bed) about 60% of the time, which has vastly improved my quality of life and ability to do things outside of work. I literally used to just come home from work and get into bed -- never cooked real food, mostly just got up and microwaved some bullshit for dinner at some point, then went back to bed. It was not a great existence. Now that I'm doing better, I have this constant sense that I need to make up for lost time.
With that said, I often post about projects as I am having the ideas, but you aren't seeing the backlog of ideas, or how long it takes most of them to actually come to fruition, or how many simply never go anywhere. I am not doing all of the things all of the time. Usually I am doing one or two things and thinking (and perhaps posting) about five more.
Note that I am 40 and have been into making a variety of things since I was a child, which means that I have been accumulating various tools and supplies for over 30 years (I am not exaggerating). This makes it easy to switch between hobbies without having to invest time and money in a whole new setup each time. Ceramics is the major exception, and I'm not going to be able to do that after September (currently I'm getting a half price deal on a studio membership for summer, which I frankly do not have enough time for, but also when else am I going to have access to a ceramics studio for so cheap??).
And the other OTHER factor is..... I think I've probably been overmedicated TBH. Like I just asked to have my adderall dosage lowered (not for the first time) when I got it refilled this month, because I've been way more motivated than I have the physical capacity to keep up with. This will not stop the flow of new ideas, but it will hopefully keep me from trying to immediately do them.
But I have to ask, if you see somebody on tumblr posting a bunch about doing one hobby -- say it's knitting, or maybe playing video games -- do you assume that because they're always talking about knitting or gaming that that's all they're doing all day? That they must not be working because they talk about their hobby way too much to have time to do that hobby and work full time AND make food? And knitting and gaming aren't cheap, either. Yarn is expensive. It seems like most of the people I know who are really into gaming are buying new games every week or two. These are investments.
Is it the fact that I work with a variety of media that makes my having a job seem implausible? I WISH I could invest my full attention and enthusiasm in one thing -- I'd probably be a lot better at that thing than I am at the dozen things I cycle between, but I just can't get myself to do that.
