iqoniq
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I'm just wondering if there are people who have hobbies that they've picked up by accident. What I mean by accident, is the fact that it wasn't originally in the game plan, but you found out you liked.
Mine is DJing and was kind of discovered by accident when I was about 8. I discovered that with skilful use of volume control, and slowing records down with my finger I could blend records together. This then progressed to other areas of the EQ and was something I did when I was bored. When I was about 14 the rave scene was in full swing, and one of my mates brothers had decks and a mixer. I took one look at it, knew more or less instantly what everything did, and just started mixing. The addition of the decks and mixer (monitor was a godsend to me) made it feel completely natural, and I started DJing. It did have the side effect of bumping me up a couple of years in peer groups, and giving me a bit of kudos, but I mixed because I enjoyed it and could make records sound different.
My dad learnt to knit by accident. He used to travel a lot with work, and one day he was sat in the hotel bar and got talking to another guy on business. Somehow the conversation moved to killing time, and the guy said he knitted. My dad was like "wtf?", but the guy went and got a ball of yarn and needles and showed him how to do a row (still in the bar), and then said to my dad he could have them. My dad said thanks and had absolutely no intention of using it. The next day he had time to kill, and surprise surprise he decides to pick up the knitting needles. I remember this mainly because the weekend he got home, he went out and got a beginners kit for knitting, and my mum being really suspicious that he'd come back with a class A knitting habit. Since then he's done some really intricate stuff, including a load of stuff for my niece when she was small.
This has also been contagious and my housemate has also picked it up on his recommendation as something to relax. She does lot of small outfits, which look like the could be for dolls, but are for babies who are either to premature to make it, or babies who are born asleep. She then donates these to funeral homes as there is sadly a need for them, and she also includes a tiny knitted teddy with each one. If anyone here knits, and fancies doing something nice, it might be worth contacting a funeral home and seeing if they need any. It makes a massive amount of difference to the families.
My housemate has also developed a World of Warcraft habit because of me. I was a player when she met me, and for a while called me a nerd because of it. One night I asked her could she follow me through an instance (she just hung back so she didn't get attacked) on a second account I had and just loot everything as I needed the gear and some of it was bind on pick up. She then discovered she liked it, and downloaded a trial account, and a few days later I was boosting her around instances for her own characters. I sacked it off a few years back (although I do have an active account for occasional play), but she still plays it.
So do you have a hobby you picked up by accident?
Mine is DJing and was kind of discovered by accident when I was about 8. I discovered that with skilful use of volume control, and slowing records down with my finger I could blend records together. This then progressed to other areas of the EQ and was something I did when I was bored. When I was about 14 the rave scene was in full swing, and one of my mates brothers had decks and a mixer. I took one look at it, knew more or less instantly what everything did, and just started mixing. The addition of the decks and mixer (monitor was a godsend to me) made it feel completely natural, and I started DJing. It did have the side effect of bumping me up a couple of years in peer groups, and giving me a bit of kudos, but I mixed because I enjoyed it and could make records sound different.
My dad learnt to knit by accident. He used to travel a lot with work, and one day he was sat in the hotel bar and got talking to another guy on business. Somehow the conversation moved to killing time, and the guy said he knitted. My dad was like "wtf?", but the guy went and got a ball of yarn and needles and showed him how to do a row (still in the bar), and then said to my dad he could have them. My dad said thanks and had absolutely no intention of using it. The next day he had time to kill, and surprise surprise he decides to pick up the knitting needles. I remember this mainly because the weekend he got home, he went out and got a beginners kit for knitting, and my mum being really suspicious that he'd come back with a class A knitting habit. Since then he's done some really intricate stuff, including a load of stuff for my niece when she was small.
This has also been contagious and my housemate has also picked it up on his recommendation as something to relax. She does lot of small outfits, which look like the could be for dolls, but are for babies who are either to premature to make it, or babies who are born asleep. She then donates these to funeral homes as there is sadly a need for them, and she also includes a tiny knitted teddy with each one. If anyone here knits, and fancies doing something nice, it might be worth contacting a funeral home and seeing if they need any. It makes a massive amount of difference to the families.
My housemate has also developed a World of Warcraft habit because of me. I was a player when she met me, and for a while called me a nerd because of it. One night I asked her could she follow me through an instance (she just hung back so she didn't get attacked) on a second account I had and just loot everything as I needed the gear and some of it was bind on pick up. She then discovered she liked it, and downloaded a trial account, and a few days later I was boosting her around instances for her own characters. I sacked it off a few years back (although I do have an active account for occasional play), but she still plays it.
So do you have a hobby you picked up by accident?