After I built my first gyro, I was flying every weekend and sometimes after work.... even in shitty weather, I was having a blast and improving my machine, then built and test flew Sam's machine and taught him to fly it, it was fun flying with a few others, except their machines couldn't keep up with mine (or, I couldn't fly as slow as them) but it was fun. My first rotorhead pivot bolts (no bushings) flogged (key holed) out after 14 months and tried to work out how many hours the head had done, we worked out I had done around 200 hours in the first year and a bit. I wasn't even in ASRA then and didn't keep a log book and didn't fit an hour meter until about 3 years later when I joined ASRA and registered the machine.
I had a guy want me to build one for him, then another, then another.... then that 2 seater I bought back... but as I got building them, I had less and less time to actually go and enjoy mine  I was getting other peoples machines ready and they were keen to get it.... then I would test fly theirs and onto the next one.... so no time for flying mine and I would begin cursing that I had to be working full time on someone elses machine 
Then I made that dumb mistake and let that guy take his before he finished paying for it..... which stopped progress and caused my divorce.... naturally I had to sell all of my equipment. 
So, I ended up just keeping my machine and flew it alone like the old days.... but not as often as before I tried to make a business out of it.... 
Anyway, I know you Stan, came across your stairmaking ability  and enjoy that to this day.... that is fantastic.... but had you, for example, started building helicycles for others.... I bet after a while, you would get fed up with helicycles.... watching yours sit in the corner whilst working on them for other people.
That is why I say, if you like/enjoy surfing as an example.... starting to build surfboards or wetsuits for others.... so you end up having to work and miss surfing yourself.... surfing just becomes work and 'the job'
If you like surfing.... work as a plumber or something during the week.... surf all weekend.... then, working a shitty job (pun intended) makes your surfing on the weekend so much more fun....
It also happened to me before the gyros too... I was totally addicted to motorbikes,,,, rode everywhere.... so I became a motorcycle courier....for a few years, I would ride to work (45 minutes),then ride all day for work, then ride home.... have dinner and then go for a ride  On the weekends, I flag marshalled at motorcycle racing or rode my dirt bikes.... but eventually, the courier work became a drag and I went from my motorcycle phase, into my rotary (mazda) phase and sort of got out of bikes.
So, I totally agree with Mike Rowe.... if you enjoy something, make what you do for work something different.... so when you get to do your 'fun hobby' on the weekends, it is even more enjoyable  
Just my opinion, from my experience  
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