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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [NBC Miami] 36-year-old makes $37,000 a year leading Dungeons &
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:38:30 +0200
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On 4/25/2024 11:32 PM, Justisaur wrote:
> On 4/25/2024 10:49 AM, Kyonshi wrote:
>>
> 
> tl;dr: wanna live of dnd? her husband makes 90.000$ a year. In other 
> words: marry rich
> 
> My wife makes that, I made 70k last year, but where we live to get that 
> is expensive, we're in a tiny 70's house (about 1000 sq ft.) that's 
> falling apart, needs probably 150k, maybe more in deferred maintenance 
> from the previous owners, and 2 kids in a just so-so neighborhood & school.
> 
> 
> 
> Source: 
> https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/business/money-report/36-year-old-makes-37000-a-year-leading-dungeons-dragons-games-if-youre-doing-it-anyway-you-might-as-well-get-paid/3294720/
> 
> 36-year-old makes $37,000 a year leading Dungeons & Dragons games: If 
> ‘you're doing it anyway, you might as well' get paid
> By Mike Winters,CNBC and Raffi Paul,CNBC...
> 
> ...in-person tabletop roleplaying game sessions that range from $375 to 
> $750...
> 
> Is that per person?  Probably not, if not that's about $15 per hour 
> minimum for players assuming 5 person games.   If her games take 15 
> hours (as is said later) between prep and play she should be getting 
> about $25 an hour.
> 
> ...She makes $24,000 as a dungeon master for the company, plus another 
> $13,000 teaching writing at nearby Westminster University in Salt Lake 
> City, where she lives with her husband, Scott. He makes $96,000 as a 
> communications director at a state agency.
> 
> A little discrepancy there.  She really makes $24k from DMing... for 
> another company.  Sounds like she's getting screwed on pay.
> 
> "That really opened the doors to networking for other types of work, 
> because when people were looking for a writer who could do fiction at a 
> professional level, my name would start coming up," says Murdock.
> Getting hired as a professional Dungeon Master
> 
> $24k isn't really opening the doors for anything.
> 
> 
> Even if she didn't do it for a living, Murdock says she'd still be 
> planning D&D campaigns for friends, reading game books or writing fiction.
> 
> Since hobbies can become side hustles, "it's important to remember that 
> creative work is work," she says.
> 
> As a friend once said to her: "You're going to be doing it anyway, you 
> might as well find someone to pay you for it."
> 
> And that's how you turn your hobby into a chore.
> 
> "I run about three games a week on a busy week," says Murdock. Each 
> ongoing game, including prep, takes about four to five hours a week of 
> her time.
> 
> 24k for 15 hrs a week, assuming a couple weeks off a year she's making 
> $3.20 an hour?!?  Maybe there's some overhead like venue, scheduling 
> done by someone else or something, but she's really getting screwed at 
> that rate!
> 
> In June 2023, Mari and Scott purchased a detached two-bedroom home in 
> downtown Salt Lake City for $535,000, with a down payment of $40,000. To 
> afford the home, they took on a personal loan within their family, which 
> works out to $777 in monthly payments in addition to their mortgage.
> 
> So they got a 60 year loan with no interest from family. They should be 
> paying ~$3,300 a month with a bank loan.  Must be nice.
> 

I mean, I have absolutely nothing against her doing it like that. But 
this article is supposedly about how millenials use their money, and 
frankly, this is someone having a small side hustle while her husband 
earns the money, and they are getting a no-interest loan from her 
family. That's all... great for them, but what about people who don't 
have a spouse that can support them doing their hobbies or have a family 
that can support them?

And yeah, it's not a good use of her time if earning money is her goal.

It's one of those typical articles about how well millenials have it in 
a lot of ways.

Anyway, the old maxim about making your hobby your job is that then you 
won't have a free day for the rest of your life...

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