For example, I play the drums and tend to think of myself as a drummer. Do you love games, consider yourself a gamer? Are you a chef, a bodybuilder, maybe an artist? What is it that you love to do?
For example, I play the drums and tend to think of myself as a drummer. Do you love games, consider yourself a gamer? Are you a chef, a bodybuilder, maybe an artist? What is it that you love to do?
Nerd. I just do a ton of nerdy things, s’all. I can program, design in CAD, play PC games, design electronics, work in IT security, work on 3D printers, grow mushrooms of all kinds and the list goes on. For the most part, I just like to learn about all kinds of engineering things. Learning about quantum physics is my newest endeavor, but not at super high level of course.
What has happened over the years is that I have just learned to exploit my ADHD and all of my hobbies tie into each other somehow. It’s more efficient and it helps if I start to lose interest in one of them for a bit.
Edit: Even my profile here is filled with a ton of random information. I just have researched a ton and done a metric fuck ton of things, s’all. It quite literally is a mental condition. Lulz.
Hello cousin. I feel where you’re coming from.
I’m not a “Senior Process Analyst” or even a lawyer.
I’m a dad and a maker and a nerd.
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Fair. I did spend a LOT more time thinking about Terms of Use and arguing with OnShape’s legal department when investigating CAD apps than a normal human would have. I checked out of actual practicing well over a decade ago, though.
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Lol. A dad and a maker here as well. Just saying “maker” would have summarized everything much better.
Too much gaming and The Expanse and arguing about Star Wars online to say I’m only doing productive nerdy things, but even back to high school and college, long before I ever heard the term, sometimes the urge to “just make somethin’” would become overwhelming.
Diablo 4 broke me with too much hope that it would get better. I tried to roll into Starfield, but that finished off my spirit. It was the final bullet, as it were. I’ll game again but that experience destroyed any motivation for the last several months.
Another ADHD, maker and hobby collector. I was/is into keyboards, CAD, firearm engineering, electronic engineering, micro soldering, computer repair, kitchen knives, sharpening, wood working, etc.
What ties my hobbies around is mostly making and engineering. I love hobbies that have a thing to solve. Both designing and executing optimal performance for each of my hobbies, thus the engineering and making.
Once I perfect my woodworking, electronics, and CAD/3D printing, I will have finally achieved the maker’s holy trifecta