fountain pens and art stuff. nope. I'm too busy now with way more responsibilites. got two promotions and two pets and a side business now. don't have hours of downtime during wfh like i did in 20/21. Now I have about $500 in pens that i only use to sign check and a few other things.
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But you do have something! Your hobby was productive even if short lived. There's always a chance to pick it back up someday.
I took an electronics class in high school and always thought about getting into the hobby. It took 20 years and a pandemic, but I finally did. Though with the availability of cheap micro-controller dev boards I haven't gotten as deep into it as I always imagined. Most of what I do is just wiring components to GPIO pins with the occasional pull-up/down resister.
I bought my guitar about twenty years ago and probably learned how to play half a dozen chords before the pandemic. So i did nearly the same thing.
I started making scented candles. I mostly started because I was trying to recreate a particular scent that we don't seem to be able to find anymore. I've gotten sort of close but not, like, super close. I liked experimenting with lots of different types of scents, though, and it's nice to always have something around to help get rid of cooking odors in the kitchen, freshen up a bathroom, etc.
I haven't made any in a while -- not for any particular reason, though, although it is harder to want to do something that involves being over a stove a lot during the summer. I really should get back to it soon.
I happened to pick up an interest in DJ'ing right before Covid hit, and I've been doing it ever since. Now that things have opened back up, I've even had a couple of gigs and made a very modest profit on it. And I still enjoy adding tracks to the catalog, figuring out where I want my cue points and making notes for what works well with what.
Started getting into coffee with all the snobbish attachments of it.
Still enjoy it. But bought a nespresso machine in the meantime. I just wanna have coffee to wake up, not do the whole ritual.