I wish my hobbies paid more

Unless I somehow actually get my book published, all my writing has thus far netted me precisely $0.00 profit. I've written hundreds of thousands of words, many of them in a row, some even in stories and books, and gotten nothing but a warm sense of satisfaction for my efforts. Dungeons and dragons is worse. Considering that I'm running a game wherein we play maybe five hours a week, I'm putting probably ten to twenty hours of work into the game almost every week. This week alone, totally while not at work, ahem, I've spent about ten hours designing a single encounter that my players will probably blow through in an hour or so. My only consolation is that there's a pretty good chance that I'll total party kill them at least once. Kung Fu? All told, I probably only spend four or five hours a week on Kung Fu, but I actually pay money to do that! My hobbies aren't money making.

The truly sad part is that I probably work harder at my hobbies than I do at my job. When I do have work, I work hard and get it done. But frankly, I almost definitely have more hobby work time a week than real work time these days. I've been complaining about not having enough work for, oh, years now, and while it's getting slightly better with my latest boss, I'm still idle a lot.

My ideas for making money, like publishing my books or freelancing for D&D, keep getting shot down. Book? Publishing is very bad right now (economy) and the actual publisher I want to work with is trying not to go out of business to boot. Freelance articles for D&D? Licensing issues since if I came up with an idea that they bought, they'd own it and I'd never be allowed to use it on my own ever again. Writing for 3rd party D&D people? That's all up in the air since D&D 4.0 came out and mucked everything up. Everything I'd like to do that could actually theoretically make me money? Bang, thud, dead.

Sometimes I really hate how life goes. At least my campaign rules.