I guess the best place would be the reason for recently looking
for a hobby.
A few months ago I began thinking that something was missing
from my day to day life (not in a TV Soap dramatically over the top break down
type of way), more specifically, that what I was missing was a hobby. So I
started thinking about what type of hobby I might want. A possible return to a
hobby I had done before? A hobby I knew a little about (or so I thought initially)? A hobby that would involve meeting
groups of new people? A hobby that used skills not based on ones learnt at
work? But, most importantly, a hobby I almost certainly knew I would enjoy.
I work in a rather generic call centre (nothing like the one
on TV), a long way from where I grew up, so almost all my friends are work
colleagues. Not all I work with currently, but still they were all met through
our joint need for paying the bills. As nice as these friends are it is good to
have a wider group of friends where your shared experiences, both good and bad,
are not all related to a particular job, company or hell bent demonic boss.
Also, everyone needs a release. Something they can do where
they are not thinking about work: worried about the latest staffing plans,
running scheduling options through the back of your mind, thinking of business
buzz words that will sound cool, professional and as if they warrant a pay rise
in your yearly appraisal. Therefore I wanted a hobby that required
concentration during participation and allowed me to get away from the rest of my
world, so that my brain could switch off from work and home issues.
I already read and collect comics (I am happy to call them
comics, not hung up on them being called Graphic
Novels to sound cool) and try to get to the cinema often, mainly with my
girlfriend, to catch movies. But neither of these is particularly social or
likely to get me outside much mixing with new people.
Preferably I also wanted something with a slight competitive edge
too, as we all like to think we are good at something, even if it is seen as
unimportant by others. It is the sense of achievement, confidence and pride in
being better, not necessarily better than someone else, but sometimes simply
better than yourself before the last time you tried. Making steps forward in a
new skill and finding out that you have learnt, progressed and now further
forward on the learning curve than you were last month (something that is very
much the opposite of office work where you can often feel you’re hitting a
brick wall each day).
So I began scratching my brain for hobbies that might interest
me………………………
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