Would you say that your hobbies make your life bearable?

Is drinking considered a hobby?

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Would you say that your hobbies make your life bearable?

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If getting laid is a hobby, then yes.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What’s your hobby?

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I think you’re on to something there, but also the meaningless of most jobs beyond the paycheck.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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