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 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 totally get this one, my dad had a motorcycle shop before he retired. I’ve heard a lot about working on motorcycles growing up, it sounds really rewarding.
I need to get a bike again, I miss riding. Way more fun than driving a car!
I’m a cyclist and I wouldn’t really use a noun for it but I am very involved in a bdsm community and it does impact my self perception
So during the day you like a well lubed chain and at night you like to get well lubed with chains?
What can I say, I like to make my ass sore in a variety of ways
Honestly that’s awesome that you have a community that works for you!
Totally no obligation or expectation, but I wanna plug c/bdsm@lemmynsfw.com here, we’d love more contributions from rad kinksters 💜
Honest advice, as someone who doesn’t really consume that much porn on here, I recommend that if you want more of us real kinksters a bdsmcommunity type community may draw us better. I checked it out over there and it looked like a question surrounded by porn, which tends to leave folks assuming it’s a porn community not a discussion community
We’re working on getting more non porn content, it just came under new management so it’s a recent development. We wanna expand and get conversation and community going. I get its not there yet, but thanks for taking the time to check it out! I super appreciate it 💜
Yeah I still think that separating the two will be good for both’s health (it’s basically the selfie problem of moderating small spaces), but I’m glad you’re building something of it here and I’ll try to keep an eye on it. And feel free to message or link or however you summon people on lemmy me when a leatherdyke’s opinion is needed lol. I do enjoy dispelling people’s ideas of what actual bdsm is like, especially between people who actually know what we’re doing.
Also I know what I just said, but I just recognized your username and want to say that I’ve appreciated seeing your posts around. In addition to you being quite attractive, post op trans women posting nudes outside of recovery pics (which always end right about when you’re healed enough to get distracted) is not super common and can go a huge way to destigmatizing our bodies and dispelling misconceptions.
Video games are so much more my hobby then anything else, any other one feels kind of fake. Unfortunately calling myself a gamer is basically a red flag, so i avoid it at all costs
Red flag for what?
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.
“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’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.
I guess maybe mushroom hunting.
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 🤷
Kite flyer, kite maker.
I’ve been flying multi-line, controllable sport kites for over half of my life. I attend kite festivals very frequently and occasionally travel throughout the US or internationally for kite festivals.
About 6 years ago, I started building my own sport kites. Now days, I have a workshop with 5 sewing machines, 2 3d printers, and other equipment, all of it revolving around kite making.
I can’t really imagine my life without kites involved.
Neat! With a workshop like that is it your job too or does it remain hobby/side pursuit.
I know a few people who have setup workspace for fishing and fishing related thing (lures, rods, etc) but still do it on the side.
It’s still a side pursuit. I have a full time job as a software engineer. I do sell the kites I make on occasion, but I have no intention of making it a proper source of income.
Wood. I fancy myself a carpenter, and I’m officially allowed to, that was the trade I originally learned - and never worked an hour later as one. But when my house would burn, I’d rescue my Japanese tools first. Then my family. Don’t tell them…
I’m an archaeology & history enthusiast. I like the term “past-o” but I live in the US and few people get a deep cut reference to a british comedy show.
I just love the variety of human responses to existing in the world, I can’t help but bring it up all the time and I feel like it colors my perspective of the present and what’s possible.
I’ve never heard past-o before but I kinda dig it! I don’t know the reference at all though, so I totes get why you wouldn’t use it much 😅
That’s a Peep Show reference, right?
Yep! I just checked and it’s like season 6, so pretty deep in.
Regardless, that’s straight up my all-time favorite show - especially as a fellow past-o. Mark’s historical references to his own life are fantastic. It’s crazy that the show isn’t more popular here in North America. My wife got me into it years ago, but literally no one I’ve mentioned it to in person has ever even heard of it.
Yeah, especially with Olivia Coleman’s popularity and consistently amazing performances, I’d think it’d be more popular. It’s a lot of neurotic English awkwardness to withstand though, I suppose.
Mark’s historical references are all so funny. Johnson and Super Hans are both hilarious - every single word they say. My wife and I love how awful Elena is, she’s just the worst.
The WW2 re-creationist episode and the wedding episode are some of the best written episodes of TV I think. Right up there with the Simpsons’ Cape Feare or Futurama’s War is the H-Word for me.
Snowboarder. It’s just my favourite thing to do going on 15 years now. It’s influenced where I chose to live, the friends I’ve made, sparked a passion for outdoors that lead to also being a backpacker, climber, mountain biker, and realize my whole thing is really just having fun flowing through nature.
Photographer. All that time in nature puts me in pretty places so I wanted to take landscapes. That’s still my favourite genre, but I also go for random photo walks, am my social groups go to wedding photographer, document my own kid and family, collect and shoot old school film cameras, develop my own film even. I’m that random weird friend always walking around with a camera.
