For example, I play the drums and tend to think of myself as a drummer. Do you love games, consider yourself a gamer? Are you a chef, a bodybuilder, maybe an artist? What is it that you love to do?
Nerd. I just do a ton of nerdy things, s’all. I can program, design in CAD, play PC games, design electronics, work in IT security, work on 3D printers, grow mushrooms of all kinds and the list goes on. For the most part, I just like to learn about all kinds of engineering things. Learning about quantum physics is my newest endeavor, but not at super high level of course.
What has happened over the years is that I have just learned to exploit my ADHD and all of my hobbies tie into each other somehow. It’s more efficient and it helps if I start to lose interest in one of them for a bit.
Edit: Even my profile here is filled with a ton of random information. I just have researched a ton and done a metric fuck ton of things, s’all. It quite literally is a mental condition. Lulz.
Hello cousin. I feel where you’re coming from.
I’m not a “Senior Process Analyst” or even a lawyer.
I’m a dad and a maker and a nerd.
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Fair. I did spend a LOT more time thinking about Terms of Use and arguing with OnShape’s legal department when investigating CAD apps than a normal human would have. I checked out of actual practicing well over a decade ago, though.
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Lol. A dad and a maker here as well. Just saying “maker” would have summarized everything much better.
Too much gaming and The Expanse and arguing about Star Wars online to say I’m only doing productive nerdy things, but even back to high school and college, long before I ever heard the term, sometimes the urge to “just make somethin’” would become overwhelming.
Diablo 4 broke me with too much hope that it would get better. I tried to roll into Starfield, but that finished off my spirit. It was the final bullet, as it were. I’ll game again but that experience destroyed any motivation for the last several months.
Another ADHD, maker and hobby collector. I was/is into keyboards, CAD, firearm engineering, electronic engineering, micro soldering, computer repair, kitchen knives, sharpening, wood working, etc.
What ties my hobbies around is mostly making and engineering. I love hobbies that have a thing to solve. Both designing and executing optimal performance for each of my hobbies, thus the engineering and making.
Once I perfect my woodworking, electronics, and CAD/3D printing, I will have finally achieved the maker’s holy trifecta
I use CAD for work, What sorts if things do you design and what program do you use?
Fusion360. It’s mostly used for designing stuff for 3D printing. I use it a ton for random things around the house as well as to supplement my other hobbies.
I don’t put much stuff on Printables, but here is one of the more “successful” ones: https://www.printables.com/model/548516-printable-drywall-mount (It somehow got listed as a featured model on the frontpage. That was… random.)
I’ll use it for larger projects where I need to simulate movement, like for a full CNC machine I am designing.
This CNC z-axis was fully designed in CAD so I could print out templates for drilling holes and also pre-test for stresses. It’s an upgrade I had to make for my cheap 3018 CNC to mill PCBs and cut parts for my new CNC:
Are we all just too proud to start identifying first and foremost as a masturbator?
It’s definitely allowed. I’ve met lots of people who gave me the distinct impression that they were wankers.
I’m not sure if you mean for me to take that personally. But I did take that personally. I laughed anyway, totally agree.
Not at all. Love your username btw. Though I believe Ook was an orangutan, not a gorilla.
I will claim that an orang-utan is often mistaken to be an orangutan, but is in fact a cousin of Gorilla gorilla called Gorilla otang-utan.
That’s because I have found that I was wrong, there is a character limit, orangutan is a long word, and I’m a retconning wanker.
I’m a weed farmer for sure. It’s a fun hobby and at the end, you get to get baked!
I have a few friends that grow weed, I’ve heard it’s super rewarding, and you get tons of flower to smoke! Nice choice, I’m glad you’re having fun with it 😉
It’s so sweet,dude, and I’m fortunate enough that the government encouraged me to grow it instead of doing some petty shit like jailing me over a plant
I collect flashlights and am registered as a flasher…
Hell yeah, same same. I think my favorites are the Lumintop FW3A and the Reylight Lanapple.
I love to ride and rebuild motorcycles. It’s so satisfying getting a crusty old bike and making it a reliable machine again.
It does influence how I think of myself. I’m proud of being able to disassemble and reassemble an entire motorcycle.
It’s an amazing feeling going down the highway on two wheels, knowing that the machine underneath me used to be a pile of parts in boxes.
The Zen and art of motorcycle maintenance.
I call myself a film nerd. I particularly enjoy movies with surrealistic or psychological elements. I prefer older movies or movies that depict older periods, such as the ~1880s-1980s. I had a fixation on the 20s-40s a while ago and discovered one of my favourite actors, Charles Boyer. Watched a bit of Ingrid Bergman, too. Currently, I am fixating on the 2018 Das Boot (the first 2 seasons at least…).
I hold movies dear to my heart. I have ~250 movies on hold in my “watchlist,” and I seldom find the motivation to sit down and absorb new materials. However, once I do discover something I like, chances are I will incorporate it into my personality or daily life some way. I feel that movies encourage creativity within me, as I often take inspiration from movies / shows / characters when creating my own work (I write in my free time).
I have never met a person in real life who is just as passionate about this as I am. I don’t really have anybody to talk about movies with for hours, so I turn to the internet. Even then, it’s difficult to find such people, I think.
I’m a performing artist. I do fire, sideshow, and burlesque.
Oh awesome, that sounds super neat! If you have the time and energy at some point I’d love to hear more. Especially about what you do with fire, I’m intrigued 😁
Nowadays mostly fire eating. It’s hard to do big things where I live but I also spin fire (staff, swords) and build custom props, like an exploding flail. I sell flaming nipple tassels too, which I never intended to get into but my shop does pretty well lmao.
Running and bird photography. Both of them are more than incidental hobbies. They shape how I see myself
Does it help to run at the birds?
Or does it help to run from birds with cameras?
To be fair, I’ve never encountered a bird that was using a camera!
“bird photography” implies otherwise, sir or ma’am.
Wouldn’t a bird using a camera be a photography bird?
Shush. Don’t confuse me with facts.
Well, I can try and confuse you with fiction if you prefer? I make no promises though, I may just confuse myself
My main fixation is developing a tabletop role playing game. I’m not a game developer by profession, but I’m definitely one by practice at this point.
After a year of work, our game is getting close to release, and I’m so excited to see what I do with my time after it does.
I have a lot of hobbies, so I’m not worried, but I’m looking forward to whatever comes next. I hope to keep up with game development, but I think it’ll be a relief to change things up.
If anyone’s interested, the game has a community at slrpnk.net/c/fullyautomatedrpg .
Years ago I adopted the identifier ‘Cascadian’ as I fit most of the stereotypes.
(Referring to those of us that live in/around the Cascade mountain range.)
I know it’s not ‘a hobby’ but being native to the PNW, it really is a lifestyle. We’re out playing in the wilderness, hunting, fishing, enjoying the rain. We smell a little like moss & dirt with a hint of patchouli. We grown our own food and prefer our animals over people most of the time. I’m about to move across the country and I have no idea what my life will be like. I spend 90% of my free time outside in wilderness where most of my ‘hobbies’ take place.
I guess maybe mushroom hunting.
“Jack of all” I had a lot of jobs in my teens to my mid 20s. Got married, had a son and divorced in 5 years. Started climbing towers in 2000 and haven’t looked back. But all the jobs I had before and all of the different things that come along with communication towers…I know a little about a lot.
Edit: I guess that I should have read the rest before commenting. But it is kind of the same. I like art, animals, nature, we have a few out of the ordinary pets, I like bladed weapons, lock sport, leather work, archery. So, yah, Jack of all.
I would say gamer, but that doesn’t really mean ttrpgs these days. Maybe storyteller, but its been awhile since i was in the ST chair.
I don’t have much experience with it (one super awkward d&d session), but ttrpgs seem super cool! I think you can still say gamer, just because your game isn’t electronic doesn’t mean it isn’t awesome and fun 💜
Good point. To add to that, even as a person whose main hobby is playing computer games, I’m often reluctant to refer to myself as a “gamer.” I feel like the term has been stereotyped a bit toward toxic incel-types, though maybe that’s just my own perspective. Nevermind that literally half my IRL “gamer” friends are leftist women.
I’m a cat lady if my cats count as a hobby (and I count them as a hobby). Also I play a lot of video games but have been socialized not to call myself a gamer because of gatekeepers.
Sounds like a gamer girl to me 🤷
I understand why other people try to put me into categories but why should I do this shit to myself?
Hey, you totally don’t have to. If you wanna use this as an excuse to gush about your hobbies though, I’d love to hear about them! 😊
