{"id":226338,"date":"2026-01-04T03:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226338\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:54:21","slug":"when-hobbies-become-side-hustles-at-the-start-i-didnt-pay-myself-anything-i-just-wanted-to-make-it-better-and-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226338\/","title":{"rendered":"When hobbies become side hustles: \u2018At the start, I didn\u2019t pay myself anything, I just wanted to make it better and better\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Meet the people who found a way to monetise their passion projects\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Niall White at The Wood Fired Sauna in Rush, north Co Dublin. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5d2fd175-40e5-4e5f-b4bc-22cb1d3058cb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Niall White at The Wood Fired Sauna in Rush, north Co Dublin. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Everyone needs a hobby: something to keep them busy, occupied, inspired, entertained or, in an increasing amount of cases, earning. Whether it\u2019s a result of determination, hustle culture, capitalism, or just good old-fashioned curiosity, more and more people are turning their hobbies into lucrative side hustles and even full-time jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But how do you begin to turn your crochet creativity into capital, or your after-hours artwork into a moneymaker? For many, it happens organically. They start doing their thing, whatever it may be, and someone else wants in on it. Before they know it, they\u2019ve made a sale, or set up a business, and the thing that kept them busy during a pandemic lockdown has become the thing that pays their bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meet the people who found a way to monetise their passion projects Niall White at The Wood Fired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,542,60,41816],"class_list":["post-226338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-instagram","tag-ireland","tag-saoirse-hanley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}