Hopefully you can make it work at your job, and if you see Hive as more of a hobby than a job you'll do better at it and enjoy it more. So many people make it their job which shows in their posts and is a turn off, for me at least.
Also, if you turn those "high hopes" for 2025 into goals with plans I reckon you'll have a better chance of making 2025 a year of achievement and enjoyment.
Good luck, which translates into, go and make your own luck.
I consider Hive as another life project, and yes, it's also fun, and I love it.
In fact, at certain times it sucks me in because it's an infinite place, and when I start interacting with people "I don't exist here in my space".
Writing for Hive, sorry, for me and publishing it on Hive is highly addictive, and no one calculates the effort and exercise it represents for our brains, a very positive exercise because even the way you talk and act with the people around you outside this virtual world changes.
As for my work, we will see if it is worth it...but I will continue to be me with everything I have inside, if not, it will still continue with its people and its course but far away from me ( it is a new plan within the plans of 2025...🙂 )
That is what it is about creating our own destiny.
Hug buddy.