The era of side-hustles is over. Hobbyists are now seeking out short courses to learn new skills as self-care instead.
Three years ago, it felt as if everybody had a side hustle. Yoga lovers turned teachers, accountants had a ceramics store on Etsy, graphic designers made wedding cakes on the weekend. As author Jia Tolentino put it, the goal of any hobby or skill was to “always be optimising” and use it for your financial and social gain.
“I think it’s easy to understate how powerful the feeling of making something is,” says Aidan Mackinnon, a bladesmith who teaches knife-making classes at Melbourne’s Cut Throat Knives. He explains that where once time was our greatest commodity, its abundance in recent years has allowed people to reflect on how they want to spend it and what they want to do with it.
Having moved to bigger premises in 2021 to accommodate growing interest, Mackinnon says Cut Throat has seen astronomical growth in interest for their classes, with sessions as far as four months in advance selling out within minutes of becoming available.Edwina PicklesBea Bellingham, a ceramicist who teaches short courses at Clay Sydney says a lot of the growing interest their studio has seen also comes down to a mass reassessment of what matters.
“So much of the last few years has been spent virtually, and being able to be physical is something I think a lot of people forgot the power of,” Bellingham says, adding that many of the students who first enrolled in the virtual classes have since gone on to attend the advanced courses offered across their two Sydney studios.
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