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What hobbies do you practice that is other people's professions? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 days ago by sanderium@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.

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[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have a bunch of hobbies but the two that I'm currently concentrating on are building guitars and working on motorcycles.

There are plenty of people who build or customize guitars for a living. I have sold exactly one that I built from scratch and that was probably 15 years ago.

I'm resurrecting a barn find motorcycle that I'll sell (or I'll sell one of mine to keep this, I haven't decided), but I'm not going to make any money on it because it's not sought after. I'm doing it for love. I'll break even.

[–] sanderium@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Oh man I would definitely watch a tv series on custom built motorcycles and guitars. I can already feel my moustache growing. Jokes aside, I love this kind of thing, have a garage full of creations, the grown man's playground.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

I do nature photography

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I got really into cocktails a few years ago (or "mixed drinks", if you want to be more technically correct). No way I'd be able to keep up at a real bar, even if I probably know more cocktails than many of the bartenders I've personally interacted with (TBF I haven't been to a bar since I really got into cocktails, and before I got into it I just went wherever it was cheap). Fixing drinks is at best half of the job anyway, and I'm rubbish at the people stuff.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What's the distinction between cocktails and mixed drinks?

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

"Cocktail" is more specific. Originally, it was identical with what's now called an Old Fashioned, i.e. spirit, sugar, bitters and water/ice. Later the term started including other alcoholic drinks like sours, martini etc.; I've seen people claim in discussions that's it's down to the amount of ingredients (e.g. a Rum & Coke is not a cocktail, but rum, cola and lime (Cuba Libre) might be) or a specific care exercized in preparation, but I think it's ultimately arbitrary.

Anyway, one of my favourite drinks is the Twice Up (whisky and water mixed 1:1, works great with many other spirits). Hard to call this a cocktail, considering adding water to whisky is just a completely normal way of drinking whisky in Scotland. The Scots just pour the water freehand instead of measuring an exact amount.

[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I'm Scottish and used to drink single malt straight from the bottle lol.

There's nothing quite like drinking an entire bottle of glenmorangie and waking up the next day still drunk

Edit: I wonder if ketamine and whisky counts as a cocktail

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, Scotland did (does?) have high numbers of drug deaths ... does Glasgow really suck that much?

[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

Highest in Europe allegedly. There are a lot of deprived areas in the country including parts of Glasgow, but Glasgow city is a great place to visit.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

Cool, thank you for teaching me something :)

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

One was mixed with a cock, and the other was mixed with a tail, obviously.. /s

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I bake fancy sourdough, grow vegetables, do landscaping (but not mowing) make great cocktails for people, ferment foods and drinks. Occasionally draw things for decorations.

On the other hand, we pay someone to mow, and also to clean the house every other week.

[–] stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I tried my hand at sourdough breads, but failed miserably. How long did it take you to become decent at it?

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The second time I made a starter it "took". Just regular unbleached all purpose flour and water. From there it was smooth sailing, it's a lot easier than yeasted bread for me. Main things that help:

Always refresh the starter at least twice before making bread with it (so if you want to bake Saturday, refresh Friday morning then make the big starter on Friday night with some of that refreshed starter.

Refrigerate the dough after it's shaped. Untill it's cold or even overnight. This does two things. Makes it possible to do the scoring, and cold dough into a hot closed cast iron pot will create steam that helps it rise.

Which leads to - bake it in a closed hot heavy pot. Commercial ovens can do things home ovens can't. I do all sorts of baking with the starter but for "the sourdough" as the kids call it, the one that comes out like a $12 Artisan Loaf, baking it enclosed by the hot pan is the trick. I tip the cold dough out onto parchment, score it then use the parchment to carefully move it into the hot pot.

There is a sourdough community on Lemmy, they are a nice group and I'm sure would have more tips but those are mine.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 5 days ago

I play golf, some days I wouldn't even call it a hobby more like penance and a walk in the trees and sticks

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 4 points 5 days ago

I try playing the guitar and taking photos.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 4 points 5 days ago

My current favorite outside of gaming is selfhosting or homelabbing. Maybe not to a high degree but I manage four local servers and one offsite, with four websites. It’s pretty fun but makes me super stress when it fails. One of those websites is a work related database but it’s also very fun to manage.

Another small hobby I have is managing my own small library. Using LOC codes I learned from the library. I inherited a massive collection from retiring profs.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Photography. I got back into it last year and have really enjoyed the process. I’ve learned a lot in a really short time.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm trying to get into creating electronic circuits. I'm terrible at it, though.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

If youre doing soldering flux will change your lifeq

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Kind of the opposite, but I void warranties for a living. Pays pretty well too.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

I make and publish music but not popular enough to live off of it.

[–] pet1t@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

cycling and drumming (in a band), not easy to find the time with all the other stuff (chores etc.) that has to be done

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Car audio
Auto repair

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Welding! Just personal projects

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

I fix my own cars and do my own house maintenance.

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