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What do you do besides playing music?
- Thread starter superheavyfunk
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When I was a young and not very financially well off musician, I used to read a lot when I was on the road, which was for about 4 years non stop. I ran, hung out with girls (and women), partied a little, (but not too much) and just enjoyed being able to play music for a living and not have a real job. When I got tired of that and went to work, what I did depended on my income to a degree but having money isn't necessarily a recipe for happiness. Take walks, talk to friends, do a little life planning, grow a little. Get married, kids, I did all that. Now that I'm just about retired I realized I wouldn't change one thing about my life. Just be...
i'm into photography - birds, beach shots, plants and flowers, industrial and rusty stuff, and am working on macro. also love drumming and reading. we have had disneyland annual passes for years, but now our cat is elderly we don't get to go that much and not for that long.
used to be into working out, mostly lifting, but due to some slowly healing injuries these days i'm more into glacially slow recovery...
used to be into working out, mostly lifting, but due to some slowly healing injuries these days i'm more into glacially slow recovery...
I hope all of you are liars because by comparison I'm just a waste of skin. 
My girlfriend and I run half marathons once a year, so there is a lot of training that goes into that.
I weightlift several times a week and am into health stuff.
I enjoy reading about historical events and figures, and I also like reading about bands and musicians.
I do some web development projects here and there.
I've been helping my father in law with renovations around their home and have been enjoying learning those sorts of things.
I have been interested in getting into amateur car racing for a few years. I have a need for speed and can be an adrenaline junky when it comes to that.
I weightlift several times a week and am into health stuff.
I enjoy reading about historical events and figures, and I also like reading about bands and musicians.
I do some web development projects here and there.
I've been helping my father in law with renovations around their home and have been enjoying learning those sorts of things.
I have been interested in getting into amateur car racing for a few years. I have a need for speed and can be an adrenaline junky when it comes to that.
I'll take your excess skin. That's my other hobby, I collect skin, hair, and fingernails. I'm also a compulsive liar. Wait, no I'm not.I hope all of you are liars because by comparison I'm just a waste of skin.
Professionally I'm running a temperature calibration lab. I like fool around in my garden, like growing grapes and chili peppers. I like to improve and repair basses and electronics.
I was wondering about the people who pick locks in their spare time and thought of the possibility of them finding lost items before they were considered lost. If you collect skin, hair and finger nails before they're lost, it makes you a kidnapper.
Then you could always lie about it... no, wait...Im not sure if I replied or not.
Main hobbies are bass/photography/firearms shooting. Sadly I really only have time for one thing at a time. Two years ago I was really into the picture taking thing, last year I was all about target shooting/marksmanship...looks like this year is the "year of the bass". As an FYI Im talking about devoting the majority of my free time to those things. I'll still get out with the camera and the firearms this year, but it looks like Bass is going to the dominant thing.
Aside from that, my dog takes up a lot of my time.
Photography...which is just as bad for GAS attacks as being a bassist!
Free time? Rebuild and restore rare old sports cars, occasionally fly aircraft, RC and real ones, build/assemble instruments, not a luthier though. Ride old British dirt bikes.
I do a lot of school work. I'm in grad school. This semester I'm teaching two classes, am taking four, and as a research fellow in two different labs I am at varying levels of authorship on several projects in different stages of progress.
If I'm on Talkbass it's because I'm avoiding responsibility or just need to relax. This is possibly the only outlet of fun I have left right now.
If any of my PIs knew I had time to play bass guitars and chat on internet forums I'd be given yet another project. Seriously. I know professors who's very philosophy about their grad students is that if they have time to take a day off, they aren't busy enough.
Which reminds me...
If I'm on Talkbass it's because I'm avoiding responsibility or just need to relax. This is possibly the only outlet of fun I have left right now.
If any of my PIs knew I had time to play bass guitars and chat on internet forums I'd be given yet another project. Seriously. I know professors who's very philosophy about their grad students is that if they have time to take a day off, they aren't busy enough.
Which reminds me...
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Hang in there, it'll get better. When I was in grad school my doctoral mentor's son played guitar and we'd jam occasionally.
not sure I have free time 
music is my 'hobby'... I play in several bands which take a lot of my time (originals one, covers others), and the money they make is welcome but not enough to allow me to quit my day job. Other activities may relate to my day job (molecular biologist, research), such as participating in bringing science-related activities to schools, to events for teachers... and very recently to prisons as well to add to their on-site learning repertoire... but by far, anything music-related wins. Today I was at a prison talking about this programme we're starting, and I could hear them playing next door... and there was no bass! NO BASS! I had to try hard to concentrate and not run and join them!
music is my 'hobby'... I play in several bands which take a lot of my time (originals one, covers others), and the money they make is welcome but not enough to allow me to quit my day job. Other activities may relate to my day job (molecular biologist, research), such as participating in bringing science-related activities to schools, to events for teachers... and very recently to prisons as well to add to their on-site learning repertoire... but by far, anything music-related wins. Today I was at a prison talking about this programme we're starting, and I could hear them playing next door... and there was no bass! NO BASS! I had to try hard to concentrate and not run and join them!
I go to the gym almost every day. I got back in to cycling a couple years ago and do several big group rides per year as well as riding on my own as much as possible. I am currently playing bass in a musical theater production, something I had never done before. As soon as that wraps up I am going back to studying martial arts. I got within a few months of testing for my third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do but injured myself and gave it up. I would like to at least get to my third degree black belt!
Some are that way, indeed... especially (but not only) in the US. I don't think it's a healthy attitude, but that's just me. I really think that a mind that's allowed to relax and pursue other activities is a more productive mind who can produce better and fresher ideas. Some PIs just want highly skilled hands, 'though. It's tough out there.
