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I wouldn't mess with him. C comes from a long line of distance runners. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have a fair number of hobbies but I have probably spent the most time on music and racing simulations. Both of them have presented professional opportunities for me and I actually pursued the music profession for a while. It quickly became distasteful and I now despise the music business entirely and it has almost ruined the hobby for me. According to some of my friends who are into racing sims and went pro at that, the same thing happened to them. Several of them have nothing what so ever to with racing sims any more. One guy works for an F1 team now in their aerodynamics department. A few others work for a successful game studio who made a couple of the recent Need For Speed games. According to them, racing sims are no longer a hobby for them and they have little to do with them outside of work.
My point is, making money from a hobby can result in a significant change in your attitude toward that hobby and usually not for the better.
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Rick York wrote: My point is, making money from a hobby can result in a significant change in your attitude toward that hobby and usually not for the better.
I totally agree with this. I often tell a story about someone who loves to bake opening a pie shop.
Suddenly he has to survive and pay for all the equipment and rent on the bake shop by selling enough pies.
Next, he decides he has to sell X slices of pie each day to even break even.
Next, he is marketing, pushing people to come eat his wonderful pies.
Finally, he hates everything to do with pies and baking.
Now, if you could make a few million $$ in the first week then you could settle down and enjoy making pies at your leisure again. 
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Motorcycle rides and badminton are two things I regularly do. Before our little one came, I used to play badminton daily at 5 AM. For motorcycle rides, at least one day ride every month and at least one 2-3 day trip in two months. Traveling is big part of our lives so wife and I do plenty of road trips too. I am off the grid during my travels which is a bliss.
After the little one came, no badminton as our sleep schedule was thrown away along with his first diaper. I don't vision myself doing bike rides either for next few months if not a year. However, family travels will continue. We will have to choose the locations wisely though. No more treks and off beat locations for near future.
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
I don't think I am a good enough badminton player to take it up professionally. Plus the age (33) isn't helping either. For motorcycle trips, I absolutely hate the Youtube video things. So no for that too. I still don't have an action cam or radio thingy which allows to talk. I ride to enjoy. If had to talk to someone or listen to music, I don't want to ride. I would rather meet you at a brewery.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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music!
Playing guitar and just being busy with them.
My other hobby is Jiu-Jitsu.
I would leave coding for both. (actually I would leave coding for almost anything  )
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Playing guitar[^].
But I wouldn't swap anything for writing code. I do it at work and I do it to relax[^]. It's my whole life.
/ravi
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PLUGH! XYZZY! Dredging my memory for the first version I played. It was written in FORTRAN as I recall, ported from DEC-something to Interdata 32bit. Late 1970s? Played on a TTY so you could cheat by looking back to previous runs. One of my colleagues mapped the cave on about 6 sheets of 11x15 line printer paper. He had immense trouble with the "all alike" maze. 
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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We played on a TI Mini back around 1979 - after work every night some of us would stay back and play. Then I discovered how to send a message to another terminal and we tortured one of the guys by occasionally sending 'A small dwarf with bags of gold runs past you to the west' messages while he was playing 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: if you could make money?
Stick to whatever keeps you more motivated.
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* Cooking
* Hiking
* Garden
I would like to do cooking (a guest house) for living and make coding my primary hobby, but that's unrealistic...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Horse riding and snooker. Learned to ride a horse 4 years ago when I was 46 mainly to have a shared interest with my partner and loved it. My nag (a 16.2 Irish Draught x TB) and I entered our first jumping competition last year over the baby jumps and won it, so this year we're aiming towards working-hunter classes at a local level.
Just returned to snooker after a 25 gap and forgot how much I loved the game, and just how bloody difficult it is! I'll probably never get back to my best (county-level amateur) standard, but will give it my best effort.
If I was able to make a living at them would I swap?.. Yes, in a heartbeat. Life's too short to be wishing your life away in IT management if you have any other viable option.
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Genealogical research and science fiction. No, I prefer to keep my hobbies as hobbies.
Ad astra - both ways!
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Volunteer on a heritage railway (portering and loco restoration); wildlife + environmental stuff.
Not sure I'd want to do anything on a full-time basis, but it would be nice to be paid for doing stuff I really enjoy. Though as others say, once you get paid for it and have to go to "work" then I think almost anything would lose some of its shine.
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Recent time, I'm tired of coding & really don't want to code much anymore at work. It's been 14+ years. Ofcourse it's not that much long as I have seen coders with 30+ years exp. even in CP. I think current era making things crazy on coding to me. So planning to move away from coding.
BTW I have babies[^] & 'll take care of them.
Apart from work personally I'm planning to create utilities(Freeware/Opensource). And I don't want to use big softwares for development. I want to use lightweight applications like Electron[^] or NW.js[^].
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: What do you guys do and, if you could, would you swap coding for your primary hobby if you could make money?
Comics, Books & Films. Planning to make my own in future. Waiting for right time(and budget).
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I've Draw anime/furry art, Blacksmith, Dick around with electronics, muck around with music, 3d print, play PC games, build computers,mod games etc....
I am of the firm opinion that i should have a life span of 800 years and that the day should have 36 hours so i can get all the hobby time i need
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Karate, trick roping, gun spinning, whip cracking, fire whips, fire staff spinning, fire poi spinning, fire breathing, reading.
Yes I would probably swap... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Sounds dangerous, I speak from experience (paper cuts hurt!)
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Just trying to balance out the nerd image people get when you tell them you're a computer programmer. 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Beer, blather and general indolence.
Or to translate that into the "Hobbies and interests" section entry: "Chess, cryptic crosswords and literature."
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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You forgot the tits[^]...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I play Bass, but I wouldn't want to get paid for anything I do purely for enjoyment, the moment you do that it becomes work not fun... (I learnt that with electronics and programming!)
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Playing guitar and drink beer, yes I would switch if I could earn what I do coding to play guitar and drink beer with the same guys playing what we do now.
I like what I do, but if I could code for a hobby, maybe I could enjoy it more. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I build cars that offend the sensitivities of climate alarmists.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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A someone who did that in a previous life you get a thumbs up from me! 
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I do some coding in my spare time (arduino stuff, a bit of this and that) and I used to spend a lot of my spare time riding my motorcycle, but since getting knocked off about 5 years ago I haven't really gt around to replacing the 'bike. These days I spend most of my spare time volunteering at my local amateur theatre on the lighting crew. Nine shows a year, each lasting two weeks per month, keeps us pretty busy.
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