In the previous two parts, I talked about my current hobbies and the difficulties of starting new hobbies. I’ve been holding the third post back, because I was hoping that I would think up more ideas. Well that hasn’t happened so I’ll just discuss some potential hobbies that I’ve thought about but haven’t picked up. Why? well here’s why:

Playing the Stock Market
This hobby has a great reward! Provided I have enough money to make trading stocks worthwhile. But I think the more depressing feature is that it just takes too much time. First, to learn enough information to decide what to trade, and second to monitor the market so as to know when to sell. Oh yeah, there’s also the risk that you won’t actually come out ahead. Of course, I could just buy blue chips and let them sit there, but how’s that a hobby then? That’s what mutual funds are for. Some more reading for you unbelievers out there

Networking
Networking, I think, has the greatest benefit of my hobby picks, but it’s more of an intangible benefit since you can’t really see it (or rely on it but I digress). It’s also a hassle because 1) I’m an introvert, 2) it’s so superficial, 3) I’m not interested in the networking “activities”, and 4) there’s no immediate benefit!

Wedding Planning
Hey yeah I could do this, but there’s so much to do and no plan to go about doing it!

Climbing
This seems like it would be fun since so many of my friends do it, but it’s somewhat expensive and seems like such a hassle to travel so far only to spend more effort climbing a man-made wall.

Hitting the Gym

Another hobby which involves physical exertion, but that isn’t the part that is the hassle. The difficulty I think is planning and scheduling. Without figuring out which sets of muscles to work on when, and going to the gym regularly; I don’t think I would get a lot of bang for the buck (although it’s free…).

More Games
I’ve been thinking about starting WoW, mainly because the box has been staring at me since Boxing Day, but I don’t have anyone to play with; and ultimately, while I think it will be fun, I’m sure that it will just be the tedious waste of time I remember. I’ve also had thoughts about buying a Nintendo DS as it seems like it will be fun. I’m not sure whether I will enjoy playing on a small screen though. And anyways, these ideas are just different variations of a unrewarding hobby.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: hobbies, ideas