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The forum is not as active as in the past, I think there are many reasons for that, like the web becoming a bit more complex (or simple?), it's a new game? perhaps you are TOO busy creating content, or probably you are busy doing something else because you got bored, things are not profitable anymore, you had bad experiences like people stealing your content, or you just moved on and have other more profitable things to do. I've been on some of this situations myself including getting tired of clients not knowing what they want, or thinking they should tell a web developer what and how to do it like telling a painter how to paint a wall, etc.
Perspective? there have been threads of people complaining, specially about profitability and getting hired. I was curious on how creating content involves writing, editing, photography, video editing, tech skills, coding, etc, and I thought at that time "why not focusing on selling one or two of those skills?", like... today fro some of us is way easier to get hired for some writing or coding rather than creating a full project involving all of it. After all those skills altogether made your site, right? things should also be profitable on their own.
Anyway, I know others (via PM) said they moved on to do other things, practical, tangible and non digital things because they wanted to and now they have the time (older, more financially stable, etc). I know the site avoids specifics, but perhaps in general it wouldn't be a problem to talk about the other things we do, or the things that replaced the web work.
I go first: for a while I got tired, bored, and didn't want to deal with client projects, also I got bored working with my websites so I moved a bit apart and started doing woodworking projects for me, I had no specific plans but small things that I made resulted in "can you do one for me?", and so I started doing this and selling to friends, then on FB because a friend of mine shared stuff there, then I felt better because it was not just profitable... I was dealing with tangible stuff and I felt this is what I needed, a break from digital challenges, I needed stuff to hit, break, cut, and hammer. I often wondered if it would be worth it or not to combine both things and sell wood stuff on the web, but I'm not sure about the SEO or that I would want to do this for longer periods. There are other things, but perhaps too specific, probably if the thread grows I'll talk more.
