Unless it’s programming or sysadmin, I’m mediocre at all my hobbies, but I enjoy them a lot. It’s great not feeling pressured to do them professionally like a paid job.
Nice to get that balance and leave the deadlines and stress back at the desk. Good on ya. I don’t even care what your hobbies are – you advertise the right attitude towards them. Keep it up.
Depends on the hobby. I tend to collect hobbies and then grow bored of them, then return to them a while later.
I’ll become absolutely obsessed with learning about “hobby x”, and spend two months basically getting as close to an expert on it as I can with self-teaching. (Video Editing, filmmaking, screenwriting, 3D modelling for flight simulators, Graphic Design, etc…)
Then I’ll grow bored and move onto a new obsession from the above list, focus on that long enough that at least 25% of my knowledge of the previous obsession vanishes and I have to relearn a bunch the next time that obsession rolls around.
I’ve been told that’s possibly ADHD, but since I suffer from depression I’ll take my bursts of obsessiveness over lack of any motivation any day.
This is me!!! Especially the relearning part 😆 Side bonus is I’m really good at reading docs(programming) now!
Reading (good) programming documentation is half the battle, or maybe 3/4ths, hahaha! I also remember when someone took the time to go in depth with the debugger and increased my programming efficiency by about 75%, good times, wow! Now I can only write code at 225% efficiency 🤣.
One of my hobbies turned professional :)
You ended up actually selling your soul to a devil IRL in exchange for dark warlock powers?
That d10 cantrip doesn’t come without cost
Jack of all trades; master of none.
I used to be really good at video games, but now I just don’t have the time. I remember being able to jump in any CS lobby and jump to the top of the server. I got kicked for supposedly cheating all the time. That was always a good feeling. Knowing that I’m kicking so much ass that people assume I must be cheating.
My crowning achievement is beating Super Ghouls and Ghosts - both times through (second time with the farie bracelet). This was using an original SNES, no save states or anything. Dedicated an entire summer of my teenage life to it. Game is hard, man.
Computers used to be a hobby but I turned that into a career. I’m a principal systems engineer and I like to think I’m good at what I do.
I got really into cooking, and it was maybe a hobby at some point, but now with a family it’s more of a necessity. A lot of the things I learned while cooking as a hobby turned into skills though. I’m not sure how to explain it, but like having cooking intuition. Knowing when to add more or less of something just by knowing. Also just being able to freestyle meals out of what is laying around or knowing what can be substituted with what or how to make ingredients out of other ingredients.
I feel bullied by this question
This!!
I suck at most of my hobbies, but half the fun is learning and improving
I think it is a trap to think about it this way. My hobbies are meant to bring me joy and challenge, no matter what level i am on
Was consistently in the top 15 or 20 in my age group (obstacle course racing) and was gearing up to aim for a podium finish but got rear ended on the way home from work one day in November so in recovery for a back Injury. Hoping I can get back to it again by the end of the year to but gotta hurry up and wait.
Started growing my own veg a year or two ago so getting steadily better at that and enjoying the process. (this one kinda skirts the line between just being self sufficient and a hobby though so make of it what you will)
Similar to others, pretty adequate at plenty of other stuff, the two above just immediately come to mind
Ages ago, before i started to teach my techniques to the masses, i was considered the international specialist in that field. I have withdrawn since then, but I am still good.
Mediocre at best, and I lack the mental fortitude to work at much of anything these days, so wherever I’m at, I’m not going to improve much.
Some people relish the feeling of swimming through molasses* for the next hit of progress dopamine, or they don’t get that feeling at all, but that’s what happens to me and it basically short-circuits something in my brain. It’s bad enough that I struggled to write the last part of that sentence, and it’s happening while I’m proofreading this as well.
* or treacle if the unintended concept of small mammal anatomy bothers you.
Hey mate, are things a bit tricky for you right now?
Thanks for your concern. I’m getting by.
Big hug
I’m a good enough cook that several friends have seriously suggested I apply for Masterchef, but I have no interest in the restaurant side of the competition.
Holy shit!! How did you get to that level?
I’m not entirely sure, a lot of it is instinctive. My weakness is baking because I’m mostly a ‘measure by eye’ kind of cook and baking requires more precision than that. I guess I also have quite a good ability to imagine flavor; if I can imagine how a combination of ingredients will taste then it’ll usually be a pretty good meal even if I’ve never tried it before.
Also, I enjoy cooking which helps a lot. I like playing with good ingredients, learning how they react to different cooking techniques and so on. And I love to entertain and watch people eat food I’ve prepared. Food is love!
[Come on over to !recipes@feddit.uk and !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk - both could do with more regulars!]
Wait so you are telling me that people don’t instinctively have this skill? Maybe I should take a stab at cooking sometime too lol
I’m in a similar boat where generally everything I make comes out tasting pretty good even when I haven’t tried it before, I wouldn’t say anything has been like worldclass or anything but I also haven’t looked up much to level up my cooking.
Ahhh that’s a big issue for me. Even when I’m tasting a spice I can’t figure out how it’ll make the dish taste (unless it’s obvious like chilli). Good links thanks!
But I bet your cheese toastie game is on point!
Well I don’t want to boast… but yes, yes it is.
I love a cheese toastie. I do mine in a cast iron skillet these days because one less specialist gadget in my cluttered kitchen is a good thing and because the clean up is easier.
But seriously, post your cheese toastie recipe to !recipes@feddit.uk! It’s not for gourmet meals, it’s for recipes that people actually use and love. For e.g., here’s mine for a Sausage, fried egg, and Reggae Reggae Sauce sarnie.
Oh wow that looks amazing
I love vidyagames but have unexceptional skill in them. I did once finish the Ice Cold Beer arcade machine by Taito, I LOVE that game. And It only took me 2500 tries ✨
😅🤣
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Creating games: Good enough that my IT teacher was impressed enough that he recommended that I go into the game industry
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Drawing: Good enough that I’ve got hundreds of followers and a lot of people like my art
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Games: I can beat the original Pikmin in 7 in-game days and I also beat Mushihimesama Futari’s final boss on Ultra Mode.
Lovely drawing style. My compliments.
Aw thank you so much! ❤️
This is some dope ass shit
Thank you so much!! 😃
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