3D printing. No dedicated space in my house for such a thing, plus there’s no way my kids would leave it alone or not constantly ask for more 3D dragons.
Flying. AVGAS100 is fucking expensive.
I’ve got quite a few hours logged, tho
Can I talk to you my lord and god… Skydiving?
Nothing you do in the air will ever be cheap, but jumping out of planes is a lot cheaper than flying them.
Exercise. Even a little bit makes me miserable. And I’m not even physically disabled.
The secret to it is to learn which kind of misery to keep pushing through and which kind of misery is an emergency stop. You gotta get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Then… It kind of becomes more comfortable.
Honestly, I find it to be miserable at first too, which really sucks. I’ve stopped and started exercising multiple times in my life and it’s always difficult for me to get back into for this reason. However, I’ve found that if I comfortably push through I get to a point where I’m struggling less and it becomes more satisfying. That’s when I start enjoying it because I can start setting specific goals and working towards them.
Diving, partly because of money, but I’m also not sure about the medical requirements.
Also flying, same reasons but money is a bigger factor there.
Coding. I just can’t stick with it and can’t find anything I’d like to make that interests me. any cod3 class I take I can follow chapter 1 and then I fall off a cliff. It feels like I’m wasting time if i try. I guess in my head I feel like I really want to know it, but when I’m doing it I’d rather be doing other things. Its more so I need to have the understanding because I don’t like using things I don’t fully understand. It just is such a time consuming thing.
D&D. I’ve tried a few times, but I have no imagination so I can never really get into it.
Let me tell you, you dont need imagination. But a fun group is everything
I have the imaginations, but I have some total mental block on “role playing”. And I have kids, so no ability to be part of a regular group for anything.
I used to be really into traditional archery. Throught my teens, Emphasis on the “really”, Pretty sure I spent more time on the range than i did at home. I trained myself to shoot accurately no matter which hand i used. I traveled to attend and perform at archery shows hosted by castles
But it’s difficult to find space to do it in a city.
Parachuting bc I might die
Cross country horse eventing. She’s too old, and I can’t afford the expenses.
embedded programming, i love everything about it except cluttering my desk with electronics, breadboards and also wiring stuff to my desktop is annoying, or using UART to debug a microcontroller is annoying
love it, feel like life is too short and I can’t enjoy this one to the extent I want to
Just go work for some weird robotics startup or thelike. I have fond memories of my office desk slowly turning into a full blown electronics lab
I wish I had the time to get involved with the hobbies I already have
I don’t think I’ve had a decent chunk of a few hours of time with the energy to actually be creative in like a year now…
I hope I’m on the other side of this soon, life is supposed to be for living
I’ve wanted to get into making stained glass art for about a decade now. I’ve spent countless hours watching instructional videos and researching, I just can’t justify dropping a thousand dollars on just beginning a hobby, not to mention the space & clean air requirements
In my city there’s a glasswork studio that does classes and has studio space. I have made a stained glass snowflakes and leaves. It was fun. So look to see if they’re are studios
Ham Radio. The equipment is expensive and it takes time to learn. Then there’s the license – my body rejects taking exams after six years of college 😅
Flying
Yeah, those flight hours are expensive (especially these days).
Bird watching. I’m going blind in such a way that makes binoculars impossible to use, and am completely deaf in one ear, so I can’t even tell which direction the calls are coming from 😅
Could you still use a camera, scope, or monocular?
I’d get into building vehicles, bikes, etc. but lack the funds, time, and space.
I can’t use any magnifying lenses because I have blind spots that interfere with it. I can use a digital camera, I actually have a pretty good one with 40x optical zoom. But since you need to really know where you’re pointing at for long distances, I mostly just use it for bee spotting!
Hey! I’ve gone down the rabbit hole with unorthodox methods of birdwatching like using a parabolic microphone (very directional, so you can locate with a mono audio source) and a couple other weird things like that! Would love to chat if I can provide any info to get you into the hobby 😁
The parabolic microphone idea sounds interesting! I use the Merlin bird ID app to identify what I can hear, but it’s not directional, obviously. I do have a pretty decent digital camera with 40x optical zoom, but you really need to know where to point it, because the slightest change in angle is a big change at a distance.
