Your life has certainly changed during the pandemic, has anyone out there picked up new hobbies? Or perhaps a hobby took on before Covid and might want to return to later?
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It's not a new hobby, but a prior profession turned hobby. I've gotten back into woodworking / home renovation. I find it to be a very good way to leave the laptop turned off on the weekend.
Absolutely! I dream of getting into woodworking more seriously some day.
What prompted the profession change originally?
I was offered a job at a startup assembling equipment and working on helping to develop the core technology. I took that job and left a self employed home remodeling gig. This was in 2008, I stayed on and supported the IT needs, which is my main job today. There are many mirrors between tech and woodworking. Challenge and Mastery, they really can compliment each other very well. I'm grateful to have been able to experience both sides of life. I can't really say if one's better than the other, they're just different. I will tell you that I don't miss roofing in the winter at all.👍
I was super stressed about my MSc application (still am) so I wanted to do something a little different to try to calm down a bit, I started doing a podcast about video games and then my sister sent me a contest of short novels for radio, it looked interesting and I decided to participate talking about the gender violence that women have being suffering on this quarantine. It's been a while since I did a short novel but is a cause that is being silenced in Mexico and around the world. If you want to listen to it (is in spanish) and vote I'll be always thankful. airelibre.fm/contestants/547-carme...
Good luck with your MSc application!
Writing on dev.to is my new hobby! 👩💻♥️
I recently started going for a drive after work as a way to get out of my apartment and transition out of work-mode without risking COVID exposure. It seems a little weird to call it a hobby, but I usually try and find a scenic route through the redwoods or along the coast and it has been good way to clear my head and stay grounded.
I think driving around can be really nice when there's good weather.
Cooking. Struggling with the salt part consistently 😁 Can't find my way out of determining the perfect amount of salt to put in.
Cooking is an art, I realized. Takes patient🙄
I've started to draw again and I'm also trying to teach myself digital illustration as well. Plus, I've also started to wake up 5am to walk and run every day of the week.
I picked up writing as a hobby. Going good so far 👌🍦
I'm kinda getting obsessed with writing posts here on Dev. I started writing 6 days ago and I've published 5 articles. Been spending some time reading posts as well. I can say its a new hobby.
Just recently started writing Dev.to blogs!
Ink drawing/doodling/sketching. It helps me relax and think. It is highly under-rated!
I found out I really enjoyed charcoal drawing in college but never got really into it. Then the pandemic happened and I suddenly had a lot more time to draw! I'm not very good at it, but I'm learning. What do you like to draw or sketch?
Nothing in particular TBH, I am still a fresher one can say. But since you cared to ask, here are the two finished ink sketches I posted on my Instagram page. instagram.com/greg_in_hd/
Recently picked up a Rubik's cube after a long time. I had already learnt to solve it using the basic algorithm which took me about 2 minutes to solve. I got interested in speed cubing after watching few videos of people solving it within 10 seconds. So picked up the cube again and practicing some new ways to solve quickly. Aim is to solve it within 30 seconds for now.
Our household is sewing masks to give out to the neighbourhood! I can't sew to save my life but my housemates can.
Melbourne in Aus has been ordered mandatory masks for the rest of lockdown from this Thursday onwards... great time to pick up that hobby.
I recently started to get into philosophy literature, I started with Plato's Republic. I have a long road ahead of me!
I was carried away by reading literature of the 19-20 century. I continue reading All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. I can say that the book is very fascinating and while doing other things, I often think I would like to quickly finish and start reading a few more pages. Honestly, even though I love to read, I rarely have this feeling.
I started reading blog articles, answer to questions on stackoverflow, attending online dev conferences. I would say that next step would be to write articles, make my own blog/website and work on an Open Source project !
Those sound like great goals!
thanks ! :D