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Having a Hobby

#21
roller said:
Cool. How much of your own painting and relic-ing goes into something like that?
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It started as an undecorated kit. I scratch built the doors, airbrushed the color, the lettering is mostly from alphabet sets as there was nothing available. The weathering is done with chalks and colored pencils oversprayed with a clear fixative.
Its about 15 hours of enjoyable time
 
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TBird1958 said:
It started as an undecorated kit. I scratch built the doors, airbrushed the color, the lettering is mostly from alphabet sets as there was nothing available. The weathering is done with chalks and colored pencils oversprayed with a clear fixative.
Its about 15 hours of enjoyable time
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Excellent. That's quite fascinating and you do fantastic work!
 
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#24
My hobby, if that's the right word for it, led to my profession. I had originally studied theater but decided not to do it professionally. Was working a day job in marketing when I got married and we had our first baby. My dad advised us to make any career changes or go back to school sooner rather than later, and I really didn't care for marketing, so I asked myself what I was passionate about. I was reading a lot of history and theology, is there anything you can do to make a living at that? Wound up in grad school and now teaching medieval history in college. Then bass playing became the new hobby, and though I try to pursue projects that gig and make some money, at this point it has definitely cost more than it made.
 
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#25
^^^

There are some of you who are happily working a full time job that involves a hobby that you love. I think that's great, but I don't think I could do that because I would start to think of it as work and then being obligated to put in so much time and effort, whether I wanted to or not, would make me resentful.

Oddly enough, I've made a living for almost 25 years working for a company that manufactures model trains, even though I have no interest at all in the hobby.

I've even supervised nunerous employees over the years who were life long hobbyists with award winning layouts and most of them became disillusioned with punching a clock to mass produce products that they gladly spent hours working on in painstaking detail, at home, for free.
 
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Gorn said:
On a podcast I was listening to they were talking about how people appreciate complemets more for their skill at their hobbies than for what they do for a living. Like tell a dentist he's amazing at dentistry and he won't care much but tell him the cabinet he built is beautiful and he'll be so flattered.
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That's the display cabinet for his wife's jewellery made from extracted teeth?
 
#28
hbarcat said:
^^^

There are some of you who are happily working a full time job that involves a hobby that you love. I think that's great, but I don't think I could do that because I would start to think of it as work and then being obligated to put in so much time and effort, whether I wanted to or not, would make me resentful.

Oddly enough, I've made a living for almost 25 years working for a company that manufactures model trains, even though I have no interest at all in the hobby.

I've even supervised nunerous employees over the years who were life long hobbyists with award winning layouts and most of them became disillusioned with punching a clock to mass produce products that they gladly spent hours working on in painstaking detail, at home, for free.
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is Neil Young your boss?
 
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From the story:

“In thinking about the relationship between work and leisure, I would argue that rather than thinking about how leisure can promote greater productivity at work, a more important consideration is about how work inhibits our leisure time,” Mr. Fletcher said. By viewing work as something we do to support our leisure time, rather than our hobbies as something to lower our stress so we can get back to work, we can actually start enjoying our lives. (I know, wild idea.)

We have been fed a line for 40 years: The best way to organize society is to run it as a market. We must treat ourselves as "brands." We are all competing in what is essentially a war of all against all. Which is why somebody has to actually write a story about how people could, if they wanted to, engage in their hobbies for reasons other than to improve their "competitiveness."
 
#30
Without question is is good. I built models from the time I was about six years old until just a couple of years ago. It taught me patience, how to read an instruction manual, and many other things. I gave it up due to poor eyesight due to the fact I'm an old fart (51), and that my hands shake too much to handle the intricacies of working with the smaller parts. I really miss it, but I've moved on to trying to build a guitar or bass here and there.
 

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