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[-] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago

Once my first project reaches 95% completion, I can drop that hobby altogether!

[-] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago

Well, not drop like totally drop. The project must stay around as a reminder that it is not complete forever.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

Of course! Think of the sunk cost!

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

I'll get back on that one day! but to really get that one right, i need to get these over here done first!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

And I'm sure the equipment is why it didn't work the first time. Let's buy a $200 tool and see if it gets better on its own!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I feel seen

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

If you get enough you can put them on a rotation

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

That would require me being able to find anything in my rats nest of an office.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This is exactly what I do

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Me who relates with like 99% of these ADHD memes but “doesn’t have ADHD”:

Hmmmmm

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I feel seen with this comment.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah can people stop being all relatable and having common traits? I'm trying to be unique here...

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Aka the PokéHobby. Gotta catch 'em all.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I like organizing my hobby graveyards and imagining what it would be like to do them again.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Holy fucking fruit balls! I thought collecting hobbies was an everybody thing. . .. ... .. . MOM, I HAVE ADHD!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Collecting hobbies is an everybody thing. Making a hobby of collecting hobbies is an ADHD thing. You gotta have it to understand it. Its literally a jack of all trades master of none deal, except all previous trades are boring unless you mix them up.

So honestly, strike the jack of all trades. It's more like jack of random trades at random times that randomly catch your interest for a random amount of time.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Okay, if you say so. . .. ... .. . FALSE ALARM, MOM. I'M JUST USELESS, LIKE YOU ALWAYS SAY.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

One thing i learned really early as a kid is that being somewhat skilled/versed in a large variety of things is absolutely an advantage in the world. If you know a little bit about everything then making connections between different fields will become much easier, both technically and socially.

For example there are some people at my work that are super good at coding, but they have so little understanding of electronics, design, material sciences, etc that they often get stuck on projects because their skills are so specialized that they cant fully understand the scope of the project.

So start new hobbies and drop them again, doesnt matter, because being good at learning new stuff is a skill in itself.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Marketing a skill that's good for learning random skills is a bit harder though, depending on where your main interests lay. If you know a little bit about everything in technology, maybe that can work.

However, management in retail is where my marketable skillset is. Because I know a good amount of every department, I will always be that call in that can do any position, instead of being considered for a higher position in one department. I've done management duties for customer service, frozen dairy, general merchandise, paints, electronics, photo, etc for eleven years. I never get a higher position when it opens because there's always someone more specialized in that position.

Don't get me wrong. I don't completely disagree with you. I have crazy good problem solving skills. I've come to love my ADHD, having gone completely unmedicated for it all my life (my father wouldn't approve Ritalin when I was diagnosed as a kid and they needed both parent's consent). I just wish I could do more than a little bit of everything sometimes.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

"Jack of all trades, master of none, is oftentimes better than a master of one."

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

On a completely unrelated note would anyone like to buy incredibly specific and expensive tool because I decided incredibly niche hobby is no longer my thing and I need money for this new hobby I just discovered?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

lol just yesterday I described myself as a guy who collects hobbies. I then rethought it as collecting skills and know-how.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Rebranded into a skill collector. I like your style. Very Adam Savage-y!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I know I have ADHD - I filled out a questionnaire that said if you answer Yes to two or more questions out of 20 you might have ADHD - I answered Yes to all EXCEPT two. But I think of it as having a lot of interests and variety in my life, not a reason to look for sympathy. At some point I learned to let go of regretting having a lot of unfinished projects, and accepted that I get joy out of starting new things. If most people get it from finishing, that's fine.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I had that hobby until I got addicted to smart phones

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Excuse be but I'm very involved and actually hyper focused on a hobby. I do so much. For like a couple months. But it was worth the dopamine while it lasted.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Spending money on new stuff to do a hobby.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I literally have a folder in my notes app called potential new hobbies. It’s just full of hobbies I can’t afford.

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