When someone asked me recently what I’m into I didn’t have answers. Existential crisis aside, what are some good hobbies/interests for someone in their mid thirties to pick up?

  • Betty White In HD@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Every year I try to pick up a skill or a hobby, so I’m just gonna list a few I’ve kept over the years and you pick two:

    • keyboard and playing shitty moody electronic music. Just learning any instrument is frustrating and fun.

    • photography and videography including drone photography and videography. Learning video editing and making silly videos.

    • amateur radio.

    • fishing, walking around the woods, foraging and identifying mushrooms and not dying painfully and horribly after cooking and eating some every once in a while. See the discussion below before you eat any mushroom you find, it’s actually serious and you can legitimately die or hurt yourself and it will be very painful.

    • some kind of fitness thing, weightlifting, hiking, cycling, indoor rock climbing.

    • keeping aquariums, some fun plants, a few cute shrimp and messing it all up and getting disgusting worms and nuking the whole thing.

    • knitting.

    • riding a motorcycle and learning how to do maintenance and repairs on a motorcycle.

    • cooking, baking, pickling, dehydrating, curing.

    • fpv drones, flying them, crashing them, fixing them and building them. Soldering in general is pretty fun and sometimes handy.

    • vidya games, playing them, modding them, making them poorly.

    • reading.

    • water color painting and charcoal drawing.

    Can answer questions if any of these sound interesting.

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      1 year ago

      Great list. I do have to pop in and say though, amateur mushroom foraging is a ludicrously deadly hobby. I’d advise against that for most people. A mushroom that’s tasty and a mushroom that kills you dead in minutes sometimes look extremely very much the same.

      Now granted most people aren’t likely to stumble across a ring of Death Caps in their local innawoods, but still, fungi are to be respected and generally not fucked with. Some of those Gi’s are not as Fun as they’d like you to think, and trained and true mycologists have been killed by misidentification.