why cant people do things for fun anymore

i dont know if anyone else has experienced but i really hate when i express interest in doing something and am immediately asked how i could profit from it monetarily.

i usually run into this issue with family and i know that they mean well, really i do. I can totally understand where theyre coming from to but i feel like the question is kind of??? an insult???

like im sure they mean no harm by it but i always take it as "if youre not making money off of doing this thing then youre just wasting your time doing it"

the other day i told my mom's roomate about me getting back into coding recently and how much ive been enjoying it and how much ive improved. The immediate thing he asked was "have you been making money off your site? do you have sponsers?" along with "if you get subscirbers then you could really take off" that second parts not terribly important i just remember it cause he has a canadian accent and the way he pronounced subscribers was kind of funny

i was like "no its just for fun" and was immediately met with, literally wrong ways of how icould make a profit off of it

its like that whenever i tell my mom about art endeavours as well

while yes, i do take comissions when needed, i dont really like the commercialization of the things that i enjoy

arent hobbies meant for just the sake of enjoying doing them? i dont see why everyhting needs to have some sor of profit or else it's just deemed useless. like coding is a very useful skill to have under your belt that i know more than a handful cant do so, not saying i should be given an award cause i know html, im just saying it shouldnt be looked down upon just because im not making money off of it

i feel like its thoughts like that that kill creativity, the thought that if this thing you enjoy doesnt have some type of monetary gain tied toward it that its useless, why cant people do things just because they like it>

as stressful as they both are, coding and art are just relaxing hobbies that i like to partake in, being paid for it needlessly stresses me out.

dont get me wrong, people commissioning me and feeling like my money is worth paying for is a really big compliment, not even gonna lie! but every comission i take is just like,, added weight and stress to doing something thats supposed to help me destress

and with the expectation of me somehow needing to profit off of my hobbies ive gotta ask why? its not like im struggling for money, and if i was i could literally just... get a job? like working for the man isnt something i particularly enjoy but i'd rather take in the most boring 9-5 or hell even work at a shitty florida mcdonalds agIain rather than needlessly stress myself out doing things i enjoy