I have quite a few activities I enjoy doing during my free time that can be referred to as hobbies, I developed many of them at a younger age and still do them today. My hobbies are part of me and a day won't pass without me doing two particular ones, I refer to them as the masters of my hobbies and I wouldn't rate one over the other because despite being just hobbies, they are quite valuable to me. 

They have beautiful memories attached to them and have played significant roles in my life at a particular point. A lot of people know me for these hobbies online and offline, and I just love doing them.




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Cooking is one of my hobbies and it has made me famous to an extent. I remember some years ago when some women in the face me I slap you apartment I was living in started quarrelling with their husbands because they didn't assist them with chores, their husbands blamed me for spending time in the kitchen with women. It is one of the things I do to relieve stress, clear my head and even think. People find it hard to believe how I mentally connect to my kitchen, I don't know how too but it happens.
 



Over the weekend, I wasn't feeling very good and my siblings wouldn't stop teasing me when they saw me on Saturday morning cooking. I think my love for food made cooking my hobby and at some point in my life, I have monetized it. I don't need to start thinking if my hobby can be monetized because at different times in life, my hobbies have paid my bills and kept me alive.


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*Back in 2013, I sold snacks every morning at my mom's shop for over a year. It was a quick source of money for me and very lucrative if you find the perfect market for it. I wake up as early as five in the morning to mix flour so it can swell before seven when the frying starts. It was a small-scale thing and it could be bigger but back then I had a bigger dream than selling snacks.*

*There was a time I also made soup every weekend for a particular woman, rumour has it that she can't cook but I wasn't after that because I got paid every weekend back then. After Polytechnic, getting a job was challenging and I had to fall back on cooking.*

*I met a caterer who took me in for small chops and the money I earned helped me survive then.*

*The best of them is sharing my cooking recipes of Hive and still making money from them, isn't that amazing?*

Cooking can be monetized and it's a very profitable business, I look forward to owning a food brand in the future but that would be after taking some marketing and other training to help boost the skill and brand productivity. Anyone who has been in that line will understand why I said it is lucrative if it is done properly.

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The world is at a stage where you don't need a shop to sell your things, there are lots of food vendors who take orders at home and also prepare the food at home. It can be challenging from the beginning which is normal for every new business but with time, things will get better if we are giving our best.


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Writing is another hobby you can't take away from me just like many members on the platform. Monetizing my writing hobby wasn't something I imagined ten years from now but it happened and I am grateful for that. 


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As a writer, one of my biggest achievements is to have people (not just friends and family) read my content. That didn't happen until I discovered Blockchain blogging where I got readers and even made money.

I started monetizing my stories by sharing them online and a lot can still be achieved with them Honestly, I am not very ambitious about writing but if one day an opportunity shows up, I wouldn't hesitate to jump on it. I am not a professional and it's just a hobby but with every content I share on Hive, I get better. 

There are lots of creative writers and not everyone will publish a book but there are other ways to make money with writing. One of them is publishing quality content on Hive, you can work as a freelancer and many other ways.



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Cooking and writing are two hobbies that I have improved on in recent years and doing them every day has helped me learn a lot of things. This is beyond just doing things because I need to, I love and enjoy doing every bit of these two things.

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