Sentences with phrase «treated as a hobby»

You should also mention that this applies only when you have your business registered and wouldn't apply if treated as a hobby (blogging, selling on etsy / ebay etc.).

Too bad I can not take deductions for blogging expense because I treat it as a hobby.

If you report a net loss and claim the deduction for more than three out of five consecutive years, your business may be treated as a hobby business rather than a regular business.

The vast majority of part time agents treat it as a hobby, have no idea what they are doing, etc..

Not exact matches

(It's a complicated argument that boils down to two sides: One saying many games treat women as sexual objects and the other side arguing that «social justice warriors» are trying to change the hobby they enjoy.)

Once I heard a sermon called «Jesus... Lord of my hobby» and too many people treat it as such.

When the Green family of Hobby Lobby raised the minimum wage of their employees last year, it was no doubt an extension of their religious outlook, which fueled their desire to treat employees as «family.»

However, if that's all we did or if that was the main thing we did, we might be in danger of, as it were, pandering to a split - level world, treating spirituality as a private hobby.

He had just one amateur fight before he became a professional, treating his training as a serious hobby rather than a full - time job.

But I've come to treat cloth diapering as a hobby so I can justify it somehow

The Green family acknowledges this fact and treats Hobby Lobby as God's business that they are simply stewards over.

«Community members throughout New York find it offensive that legislators like George Amedore, who have blocked ethics reforms and treat their public service as a hobby rather than a full - time job, would try to give themselves a pay hike,» Niccoli wrote.

Morgan Freeman doesn't return (fans of the first film know why), but everyone else is back on board: Bruce Willis as retired CIA agent Frank Moses, trying to settle into a life of domesticity; Mary - Louise Parker as his girlfriend Sarah, who wants more danger in her life; John Malkovich as Marvin, whose rampant paranoia is proven to be justified as often as not; Helen Mirren as Victoria, the cucumber - cool killer who treats her profession like a hobby; and Brian Cox as Ivan, Victoria's Russian roll in the hay.

An indie publisher, on the other hand, is someone who treats the book publishing project as a serious business and not just a hobby.

* Top literary agents work full - time, have many years of experience, and treat their profession as serious business (they aren't part - time agents with second jobs to make ends meet and they don't think of agenting as a hobby).

They treat their writing as a business rather than a hobby.

And I also needed to start treating these chapters as part of my writing business instead of just a hobby.

Joanna Penn differentiates between «self - published» and «independent» authors — whereas self - publishing has an amateur, hobby - like character, Penn defines independent authors as writers who treat their writing like a business and do everything it takes to ensure their books are just as high quality as those being published by a publishing house.

Career writers, those who live off writing income, treat writing as a vocation and a business, not as a hobby.

Up to now I've been treating writing as a hobby, by and large.

It is a fact that, numerous new real estate speculators neglect to view their vocation as a financial specialist in a business; rather they treat it like a hobby.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

If you don't have any use for actually spending it, don't treat it as anything more than a gamble or a hobby — something you can gladly sink money into.

This may come as a surprise and to many rookies it does, but trading financial markets is a business, while most treat it as an entertainment or a hobby.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed changes to federal regulations that would treat many small / hobby breeders and pet rescue groups as commercial breeders.

This shows that you are treating the activity as a business (rather than a hobby) which may be helpful if anyone ever questions a year when your blog had a loss.

I at first treated the blog as a hobby, but now that I have seen some traction and positive feedback my business / competitive mind has started to fire up again.

Make money from original works, and treat the fan one as a hobby.

If you can't make a profit, this usually results in the IRS treating your business as a hobby rather than a business.

Unlike compensation for property damage, which can be quantified as the loss of a specific monetary sum, the emotional suffering caused by an injury is treated as the defendant's loss of opportunities to enjoy their hobbies or way of life.

Whether your home business is your primary occupation or a hobby that nets you a few hundred dollars a year, it is still a business, and you should treat it as such.

Treating your therapy practice as a hobby — Basically, this racket pays for my vacations to Europe or I wouldn't be doing it.

«If you don't have a plan, you're treating real estate sales as a hobby,» he says.

Most investors start our treating Real Estate as a hobby.

I figure if I keep plugging away and make sure I create my own content then once I have more time on my hands I can ramp it up a bit and treat it as more of a business than a hobby.