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Ask HN: What are your hobbies?
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#12Day Job: Training Programming and Sysadmin
(between 500 and 1000 workdays till retirement)
Hobbies:
Repairing thing for others to save money and not throw out stuff
too soon (rewired lawnmower battery for $50 instead buy new $500 mower. working for 3 years, untangled badly knotted fine link gold chain,melt value $40 retail $250)
Breadboard circuits for amusement not a side hustle.
Wado Karate : Stopped formal classes 10 years ago(just life). Just repeating the training positions and katas I know to make sure the joints don't go bad on me.
Might try Tia-chi in retirement.
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#13Painting miniatures for tabletop gaming, and almost no tabletop gaming.
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#15Making music, DJing and Production
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#16Family, brewing beer, lock picking, repairing stuff (which ties in with learning new things), cooking.
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#17Hiking & photography mostly.
The photography I'm not very good at, but I enjoy it and I'd like more time to do it available to get better at it.
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#18- reading (in particular, I love long, epic series, which keep me from having to decide on another book when I finish one)
- bicycles (repair, improvements, and, more importantly, touring/getting around my city)
- coffee, in particular espresso
- writing, though admittedly I haven’t produced as much fiction as I’d like
- hiking
- running
- DIY repair, from laptops to ovens to dishwashers (or maybe I’m just cheap?)
- building out and managing my music library and self-hosted streaming setup
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#19I have many. Mostly woodworking, restoring old bicycles and playing guitar (delta and chicago blues).
Why woodworking exactly? I read about various cs engineers having this hobby surprisingly often.
I pretty much only use hand tools and I construct things using traditional joinary. It is challenging on a lot of levels. Finding a design that works, the joints you choose, the order you alter each piece of wood and the skill in which you weild your tools.
It's hard. There are so many ways to get it wrong and it's obvious when you have. It's usually a fixable when you or cheap enough to do again, so it there is low pressure except from yourself to be good.
The basic skills are highly transferable so it makes sense to invest in yourself.
I find this combination suites my personality. I've been doing it for 7 years and love it just as much as when I started. Probably more.
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#20design manager in the day job, I consider playing with tech to be a hobby.
otherwise - reading, drawing, gaming (almost exclusively on nintendo consoles).