I believe that is true, pretty much home mining is not really a job but at the moment with the average electricity rate that must people have at home.
I say as a lot people have mentioned on the forums this is more of a hobby.
I had to just sell off my miners be off since the price dropped to $400. It just does produce enough to cover expenses.
I say its a job if you manage a large data center with all electricity running on solar and never pay electricity ever again.
I hope mining will lead to faster pace development in the solar energy.
Solar is just too high priced for the wattage needed with mining.
I personally am lucky with low priced electricity and it's winter so free to super cheap cooling.
I have used winter to expand soon I will be up to 11k watts (approx 15T worth of gear). Winter is making it possible for me personally.
Yes the price for solar is way to high and I can make guess to why that is but that is most likely a different topic in itself.
And you are lucky with low electricity I really do wish I had the same since even as a hobby, mining itself is pretty fun overall.
To a certain degree like a lot of times, hobby for what I believe is suppose to take a lot of money and it's stuff you don't even consider about ROI cause it is fun and what you want to do.
At the moment just feels like all you do is pay bills with nothing much left which to me definition of a job? Haha
I actually feel good with my low electricity. I am doing more then paying just bills. It is no longer guaranteed ROI, but is very possible for me.