I had been wanting to learn how to play the guitar for years, but laziness, i guess, kept me from it. I picked it up with moderate seriousness and am very greatful i did. I wish i would’ve started sooner.
Programming.
I don’t do it as much as a hobby anymore. But that’s because I switched careers and do it all day for work nowadays!
Parenting, since our first child was born in September of 2020. Still giving it a go. We just had a 2nd child this July, so I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious.
Unfortunately you can’t just drop the hobby if it gets too frustrating.
Ah, yes, another quaranteenie.
3D printing, have been unable to continue but apparently it’s a known thing with 3D printing where people do it in waves
apparently it’s a known thing with
3D printingADHD where people do it in wavesThat too
3D printing only goes as far as you have projects.
If you run out of projects, you sort of run out of things to do.
But all that changes when you encounter something that is broken.
But all that changes when you encounter something that is broken.
Only if 3D printing could fix me 🫠
I started taking biking more seriously around the time Covid started. I built my fitness up over the course of the last few years to the point where I can ride almost anywhere in my city if I have the time and the weather cooperates. Last week I did my favorite 40 mile ride for the 5th or 6th time in recent history and I now average around 80-100 miles a week. My mood is better and I physically feel much stronger.
The best part: all this fitness stuff is a side benefit because I originally started riding for the purposes of sunshine and exploring and just happened to stumble into better health!
Same! It eventually led to racing, which has opened up a fun new world I didn’t know existed.
Before covid I remember thinking averaging 20mph on my 10 mile commute was impossible, i was struggling to hit 19. A couple weeks ago I averaged over 21mph for 100 miles.
I live near the mountains and have made it my goal to ride up a proper mountain. I am still early in that goal; still calibrating to where I think I am and where my limits are. I usually ride alone and get lost in the experience on a nice long path or trail. After the ride, stats, though imperfect, help me see a sense of progress and I don’t often feel a desire to compete with others, though I did go on a group ride with some roadies once through one of our most iconic regional landmarks and they pushed me so hard I haven’t ridden that much high intensity cardio and leg melting endurance in any ride since then. I absolutely want to do it again.
20mph sounds crazy fast for an average speed. I’m crawling up hills at 6-7 mph and the fastest I’ve ever gone on the downhill was 46mph, yikes! I think I average 12-15. You’re killing it! What’s the most enjoyable race course you’ve been on?
Yea I’m less into the competitive aspect more into the community. People who race just really love riding their bikes. I like office park crits more than anything just because it has a grassroots feel, and you’re always racing the same people so it’s really just an excuse to get together. I’ll average 14-16 on commutes nowdays because I’m not on an aggressive bike and don’t have my aero kit on and stuff, so don’t feel like you’re doing bad. I don’t like going over like 35, it’s scary… 45 is pretty insane
I got in the habit of taking pills for anxiety and add! I told myself it was just for a little while (i hate taking pills) but here we are! Hahahahahaha! I hate this hobby but it is a requirement with my other new hobby im working on: not having panic attacks, like, ever again. Nope. No thanks. No
Keep it up! I feel that you are choosing the safest and most responsible way to deal with your panic attacks. You should feel good about that.
I played video games more often than usual. I still do when I have the time
When Covid came to town I started learning French to do something constructive. I started with 1 hour+ Duolingo a day, then after a year I added comic books (Tintin/Asterix/Spirou/Natacha/etc.). Now I am reading the Maigret novels.
I finished the Duolingo course after ~3 years but they added more content so now I do ~15min a day just for fun, while most of my learning is through reading interesting novels, like Maigret.
I also took the ANUx’s Astrophysics XSeries Program on EdX, it’s spectacular and I learned so much from it. So I keep better up with new discoveries and understand what’s going on.
Used to read a little bit (~3-8 books a year). Now I read a lot (30+ books a year). Love escaping into a fantasy world
I picked up baking soughdough loaves - like a lot of people…
I’ve managed to keep the habit! I’ve made a loaf once a week (pretty much) for almost 3.5 years. Which is a crazy number now that I’ve calculated it.
Feeding/kneading/shaping/baking just became part of my routine and it is now super easy to maintain, especially with the 1 a week low commitment. It makes the best sandwiches!
Nightly drinking. At this point, I don’t know what life was like before I started, and as much as I know I’m shortening my life, I actually really enjoy the daily stress relief - I’m weirdly happier overall these days as a result, although I do keep my intake low.
I don’t smoke, vape, trip, weed is a no go, as it triggers psychotic thought patterns, and I don’t take anything else (unless caffeine counts, in which case, I’d rather fucking kill myself than give up coffee.) I enjoy having something to lean on. We’re all dying, some of us slightly faster than others by choice. I don’t think a couple whiskeys a night is all that bad, all things considered. The world is moving in a direction I’m not compatible with on a deeply personal level anyway, so fuck living until 80.
please try to stop, man.
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There are countless ways we can find to cope. As long as it makes us happy and we can understand and accept its full effect on our lives, then i believe it’s great to have.
I started smoking weed again during the pandemic, and was probably just old enough to do that responsibly. I definitely wasn’t when i was younger and couldn’t handle my substances well.
Guitar playing and weed is the best.
As long as it makes us happy and we can understand and accept its full effect on our lives, then i believe it’s great to have.
bro lmao
“i do heroin everyday which is great as I understand its effects and it makes me happy”
I started learning German, off and on. I know more words than wenn I started.
Übung macht Meister.
Spitze!
Don’t know that I’d call it a hobby exactly, but a habit at least. Finally working out.
I needed something since I was always home and just felt weak. Got a set of adjustable dumbbells and a small lifting bench.
3 years later and they are still by my desk, used 3 times a week!
Started bouldering, still at it. It did wonders for my health (was basically a couch potato before that).
I took up social media marketing for YouTubers and other influencers. I helped people build an audience, brand, and advised them on what to avoid and how to grow.
It made me a good amount of extra monies and it’s kinda fun. It’s like they’re a tamagotchi.
I’m also able to take those same skills now and use them in my professional life.
I actually stopped my hobby of golfing because the courses were getting overcrowded as golf was one of the few sports you were still allowed to do at the height of covid. Haven’t picked it back up because it’s so time consuming.
