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Would you say that your hobbies make your life bearable?

Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:39 pm
Posted by Earnest_P
Member since Aug 2021
3889 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:39 pm
Meaning, if like most people you really don’t enjoy what you do for a living, do you use hobbies as a way to make it ok that you have to spend all your working hours the way you do?

I don’t have any hobbies, and I don’t like my job. I’m thinking that’s a bad combination.
Posted by Jizzy08
Member since Aug 2008
11533 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:41 pm to
Is drinking considered a hobby?
Posted by Geauxkart
Member since Jun 2013
90 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:42 pm to
Too many people make their work their hobby.
Find something to make you happy. Very important IMO.
Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
35864 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:43 pm to
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Would you say that your hobbies make your life bearable?

Posted by JetsetNuggs
Member since Jun 2014
14510 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:43 pm to
I play more video games than a 12 year old Japanese kid so I can turn my mind off from the nonsense parts of life
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
13958 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:44 pm to
If getting laid is a hobby, then yes.
Posted by makersmark1
earth
Member since Oct 2011
17216 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:46 pm to
I work for money.

I enjoy playing golf, watching football, good food.
Posted by John_V
SELA
Member since Oct 2018
1868 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:46 pm to
I can power thru 36 hours at a hospital per week with little regret when I know I'm spending the other 4 days fishing whether it be out of the boat or frequenting local ponds.

I really think a lot of today's mental health issues is the lack of adults, primarily men, to de-stress from their jobs and home lives.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
67709 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:47 pm to
My hobby is the only thing that gives me any creative outlet, socialization, or meaning in my life. I wish I was exaggerating, but it really is either the only thing keeping me alive or a crutch that I have been leaning on for years to avoid bigger changes.
Posted by Earnest_P
Member since Aug 2021
3889 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:47 pm to
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I really think a lot of today's mental health issues is the lack of adults, primarily men, to de-stress from their jobs and home lives.


I think you’re on to something there, but also the meaningless of most jobs beyond the paycheck. At least you’re at a hospital.
Posted by ThatMakesSense
Fort Lauderdale
Member since Aug 2015
14992 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:49 pm to
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My hobby is the only thing that gives me any creative outlet, socialization, or meaning in my life. I wish I was exaggerating, but it really is either the only thing keeping me alive or a crutch that I have been leaning on for years to avoid bigger changes.


What’s your hobby?
Posted by OK Roughneck
The Sooner State
Member since Aug 2021
11991 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:50 pm to
When I get some down time I like welding up something I need, new shop table, hand tool organizers, pipe gates etc. Guess my hobby is more work but thats how I roll.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
67709 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:52 pm to
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I think you’re on to something there, but also the meaningless of most jobs beyond the paycheck.


This. Throw in the breakdown of institutions that used to give people a sense of community (clubs, churches, etc), the ever-shrinking standards of living, the isolation of online existence, and the insane difficulties of navigating modern dating culture, and you have a recipe for a lot of depressed, poor, lonely people with nothing to live for and nothing to lose. Not a good factor for a societal or governmental stability.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
67709 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:52 pm to
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What’s your hobby?


Semi-professional musician

I have a love/hate relationship with it. It causes me crazy amounts of stress, but it’s literally the only thing in my life I actually kinda care about or ever look forward to (other than a good meal or an SEC home football game). At times, I wonder why I still do it. Sometimes I feel like I have to, sometimes I feel like I’m just trying to prove a point, others, it’s just so much fun that I can’t imagine doing anything else, and just wish I could do it full time.
This post was edited on 9/20/23 at 4:59 pm
Posted by pelicansfan123
Member since Jan 2015
2101 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:54 pm to
I've always, at least tried, to go by the notion that I work to live and not live to work.

I don't really enjoy my job, so if I didn't have outside interests, I would be miserable with my life. The boring work and fake BS'ing every day really does get tiresome.
Posted by Scruffy
Kansas City
Member since Jul 2011
73617 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:54 pm to
Scruffy likes his job, it just happens to be incredibly, incredibly stressful.

Hobbies are stress relievers.
Posted by scrooster
Resident Ethicist
Member since Jul 2012
39466 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:54 pm to
My hobby has been, for years, competitive shooting which also includes reloading, handloading. It embodied teaching as well.

Speed and accuracy on the pistol or 3-gun course and long range precision shooting on a 1000 meter line are perishable skills that deteriorate with age. Muscle memory, eyesight, cardio recovery and the subsequent decline ... it's inescapable.

My Dad was a hobbiest carver, sketcher and painter that honed his hobby into a marketable skill to the point where he made 100s of 1000s of dollars doing it after he retired at 62 years of age. At around 72 he had so many back orders and so many demands for more of his work that it became a job rather than a hobby so he gave it up.

Point being, a hobby quits being a hobby when one becomes obsessed with it (perfectionists understand) ... doesn't matter what it is, fishing, painting, shooting, competing on some level.

I am now mostly handloading ... matching perfect loads to perfect rifles all with the idea of handing it all down one day, before or after I die.

Dad left 100s of carvings and paintings now on display in stranger's homes, some celebrity's homes ... and our family's homes.

Point being to all of this ... as you get older your hobby usually encompasses something, some skill or srrvice, that will have worth or value after your death. At least that applies to most people.

Fishing is not so much a hobby as a pastime and that illustrates a significant difference between a hobby and a pastime.

Drinking is a pastime.

Helping disadvantaged children, mentoring, can be a hobby or a calling or both.

Attempting to write a publishable book, a novel or an instructional volume of some sort, something of worth ... is it a hobby or a pastime?

Tracing, putting-together, your family's genealogical history to pass down to your kids ... that's a hobby.

Woodworking is a common hobby among men ... even if it's building birdhouses.

Name a common post menopausal hobby for women.
This post was edited on 9/20/23 at 5:16 pm
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
57706 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:56 pm to
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primarily men, to de-stress from their jobs and home lives.
my job is fine. And being at home is my favorite place. I hunt a good bit and golf and fish littke. Chase kids a bunch.

Posted by RonFNSwanson
1739 mi from the University of LSU
Member since Mar 2012
23470 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:57 pm to
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I don’t have any hobbies, and I don’t like my job. I’m thinking that’s a bad combination.


Posted by Duckhammer_77
TD Platinum member
Member since Nov 2016
2771 posts
Posted on 9/20/23 at 4:57 pm to
my wife sees a therapist...I go to the woods or the range, problem solved.
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