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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Since when is a strong work ethic at your hobby considered bad?
It's not. While you can find negative people that will look down on or judge absolutely anything, for the most part OP is imagining this, at least for the majority of people. Or maybe they are just surrounded by toxic people...?
Pulling an all-nighter to shave 3 seconds off your Super Mario speed-run doesn't pay the bills.
Perhaps the problem is more that that is not a good hobby.
I mean it doesn't pay the bills, but it does get you respect from other speed runners and from people who respect speed running.
It's also somewhat a matter of your specific hobby ... speed running video games is pretty niche and useless compared to most hobbies.
Like on one end of the spectrum, there are hobbies that help everyone, like volunteering, cleaning up or beautifying your community, helping friends and family and loved ones, or organizing community programs.
Everyone is going to respect the hell out of you for that, and it's pretty easy to see those translate to jobs if you needed them to.
Then there are hobbies that can be beneficial to you or to anyone, like hobbies where you create stuff (whether it's knitting, 3d printing, home renos, gardening, cooking, etc). These are much easier to use to help others, and to turn into side hustles if you want to.
Then there are hobbies that you like that create community and socialization, from playing team sports, to DnD groups, to parties, to multiplayer video games, to organizing dinners and events.
Then there are hobbies that primarily benefit you and benefit the community only indirectly (in the sense of you being a better or more capable person). This includes stuff like running, weight lifting, reading a book, etc.
Then there are hobbies that don't even really benefit you but you do anyways, like watching TV, scrolling social media, or getting slightly better at a pointless mechanical skill.
Now compare how many people would consider a strong work ethic at the office bad to how many would consider spending a lot of time on DnD bad. The difference is massive. And don't just think US or Europe. Consider the whole world. It won't even be close.
I mean, again, no one is going to consider a hard work ethic at the office bad by default, because it pays for you and your family's food and shelter.
If you flip the incentives around, i.e. you got food and shelter for playing DND and nothing but socialization for being at the office, then people would consider a strong work ethic at the office equally bad.
I think you see what I am saying. Money (which pays for the food and shelter) determines the value.