Hobbies and job

I always had a strange sensation with the split between what is a hobbie and a job While it is true that sometimes you have activities for which you receive a salary and not for others, It´s like always you have to decide which activity in your life will be more important and professional above all others.

With the arrival of feminist thinking in my life, this sensation was more radical than before, because I understand that the most strict split was created based on patriarchal ideology, which one encourages a radical vision about what is what, and this is visible in hundreds of examples like masculine/feminine, formal/informal, rational/emotional, science/art, friendship/love, including the example that I’m criticizing now.

I don´t want to say that all of these splits do not exist. In many cases life demands to make choice or decisions and you must use one domain or the other but I think that essentiality, life cannot be seen through this division because we are not part of just one of those parts and is better for our identities and mental health to understand ourselves like part of something more complex than a world with only two parts.