Hobbies
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Cooking, playing music (clarinet and piano, but not at the same time), playing games (lots of, card games, rpgs, mah'jong) and having fun with my friends. I doubt I could make some money out of any of them, though.
I saw some kid playing mah jong on his phone the other day, not the tile matching crap you see all the time but the 4 player style. I must remember to find it some time, I enjoy playing it with friends but that is mostly drinking rather than playing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I have a fair number of hobbies but I have probably spent the most time on music and racing simulations. Both of them have presented professional opportunities for me and I actually pursued the music profession for a while. It quickly became distasteful and I now despise the music business entirely and it has almost ruined the hobby for me. According to some of my friends who are into racing sims and went pro at that, the same thing happened to them. Several of them have nothing what so ever to with racing sims any more. One guy works for an F1 team now in their aerodynamics department. A few others work for a successful game studio who made a couple of the recent Need For Speed games. According to them, racing sims are no longer a hobby for them and they have little to do with them outside of work. My point is, making money from a hobby can result in a significant change in your attitude toward that hobby and usually not for the better.
Rick York wrote:
My point is, making money from a hobby can result in a significant change in your attitude toward that hobby and usually not for the better.
I totally agree with this. I often tell a story about someone who loves to bake opening a pie shop. Suddenly he has to survive and pay for all the equipment and rent on the bake shop by selling enough pies. Next, he decides he has to sell X slices of pie each day to even break even. Next, he is marketing, pushing people to come eat his wonderful pies. Finally, he hates everything to do with pies and baking. Now, if you could make a few million $$ in the first week then you could settle down and enjoy making pies at your leisure again. :laugh:
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I'm curious - I still love to code but I also love to do other stuff in my spare time (when I get any!). What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Motorcycle rides and badminton are two things I regularly do. Before our little one came, I used to play badminton daily at 5 AM. For motorcycle rides, at least one day ride every month and at least one 2-3 day trip in two months. Traveling is big part of our lives so wife and I do plenty of road trips too. I am off the grid during my travels which is a bliss. After the little one came, no badminton as our sleep schedule was thrown away along with his first diaper. I don't vision myself doing bike rides either for next few months if not a year. However, family travels will continue. We will have to choose the locations wisely though. No more treks and off beat locations for near future.
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
I don't think I am a good enough badminton player to take it up professionally. Plus the age (33) isn't helping either. For motorcycle trips, I absolutely hate the Youtube video things. So no for that too. I still don't have an action cam or radio thingy which allows to talk. I ride to enjoy. If had to talk to someone or listen to music, I don't want to ride. I would rather meet you at a brewery.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]
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I'm curious - I still love to code but I also love to do other stuff in my spare time (when I get any!). What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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I'm curious - I still love to code but I also love to do other stuff in my spare time (when I get any!). What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Playing guitar[^]. But I wouldn't swap anything for writing code. I do it at work and I do it to relax[^]. It's my whole life. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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Playing guitar[^]. But I wouldn't swap anything for writing code. I do it at work and I do it to relax[^]. It's my whole life. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
PLUGH! XYZZY! Dredging my memory for the first version I played. It was written in FORTRAN as I recall, ported from DEC-something to Interdata 32bit. Late 1970s? Played on a TTY so you could cheat by looking back to previous runs. One of my colleagues mapped the cave on about 6 sheets of 11x15 line printer paper. He had immense trouble with the "all alike" maze. ;P ;P Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I'm curious - I still love to code but I also love to do other stuff in my spare time (when I get any!). What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
if you could make money?
Stick to whatever keeps you more motivated.
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I'm curious - I still love to code but I also love to do other stuff in my spare time (when I get any!). What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
* Cooking * Hiking * Garden I would like to do cooking (a guest house) for living and make coding my primary hobby, but that's unrealistic...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Specialized on tulips, no doubt.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
Of course my dear, but other subjects that have my interest are: Wooden shoes, Windmills, Frikandel and Gouda cheese :-\
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RickZeeland wrote:
professional photographer
Nice - one of my favorite hobbies (and I spent 6 months as a "pro" many years ago - fun)
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Yes, I have fond memories of my time as a photographer too, why in godsname I decided to become a Software Developer is a mystery even to me, must have a screw loose somewhere :-\
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Photography. And no.
My kind of guy :thumbsup:
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I'm curious - I still love to code but I also love to do other stuff in my spare time (when I get any!). What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Horse riding and snooker. Learned to ride a horse 4 years ago when I was 46 mainly to have a shared interest with my partner and loved it. My nag (a 16.2 Irish Draught x TB) and I entered our first jumping competition last year over the baby jumps and won it, so this year we're aiming towards working-hunter classes at a local level. Just returned to snooker after a 25 gap and forgot how much I loved the game, and just how bloody difficult it is! I'll probably never get back to my best (county-level amateur) standard, but will give it my best effort. If I was able to make a living at them would I swap?.. Yes, in a heartbeat. Life's too short to be wishing your life away in IT management if you have any other viable option.
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I'm curious - I still love to code but I also love to do other stuff in my spare time (when I get any!). What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Genealogical research and science fiction. No, I prefer to keep my hobbies as hobbies.
Ad astra - both ways!
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I'm curious - I still love to code but I also love to do other stuff in my spare time (when I get any!). What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Volunteer on a heritage railway (portering and loco restoration); wildlife + environmental stuff. Not sure I'd want to do anything on a full-time basis, but it would be nice to be paid for doing stuff I really enjoy. Though as others say, once you get paid for it and have to go to "work" then I think almost anything would lose some of its shine.
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I'm curious - I still love to code but I also love to do other stuff in my spare time (when I get any!). What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Recent time, I'm tired of coding & really don't want to code much anymore at work. It's been 14+ years. Ofcourse it's not that much long as I have seen coders with 30+ years exp. even in CP. I think current era making things crazy on coding to me. So planning to move away from coding. BTW I have babies[^] & 'll take care of them. Apart from work personally I'm planning to create utilities(Freeware/Opensource). And I don't want to use big softwares for development. I want to use lightweight applications like Electron[^] or NW.js[^].
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Comics, Books & Films. Planning to make my own in future. Waiting for right time(and budget).
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Of course my dear, but other subjects that have my interest are: Wooden shoes, Windmills, Frikandel and Gouda cheese :-\
RickZeeland wrote:
Frikande
Can you send some over?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'm curious - I still love to code but I also love to do other stuff in my spare time (when I get any!). What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
I've Draw anime/furry art, Blacksmith, Dick around with electronics, muck around with music, 3d print, play PC games, build computers,mod games etc.... I am of the firm opinion that i should have a life span of 800 years and that the day should have 36 hours so i can get all the hobby time i need
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RickZeeland wrote:
Frikande
Can you send some over?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
Here, a frikandel speciaal: Plazilla.com[^] :-\
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I'm curious - I still love to code but I also love to do other stuff in my spare time (when I get any!). What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Karate, trick roping, gun spinning, whip cracking, fire whips, fire staff spinning, fire poi spinning, fire breathing, reading. Yes I would probably swap... :-D
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