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What is a good hobby to get into real quickly (without a ton of learning and skill)?

Why are you interested this hobby and does it occupy a large or small amount of your time?
 
Anonymoose said:
my usual hobby is getting online. its not only entertaining but the net actually cured me of my social skills. i used to suffer from terrible shyness. getting online and interacting on boards gave me confidence to facing the real world and started to talk to strangers.. so you can say it was like therapy. even the child psychologists could not find way to cure me.

Glad the internet helped you get over that! :friends:
 
LEARN A LANGUAGE.

It's the must rewarding thing to do, and you get the addiction to learn more quite quickly (like you required). You can do it free thanks to the internet, and even private tutoring to take your skills to the next level tends to be cheap.

I understand if you don't travel much then maybe it's not your kind of thing. But in some careers being able to speak a different language can boost your salary by one hell of a lot.

Someone that has a certain level of education, IT skills, and can speak a middle eastern language, Asian language, English, French, German would get paid 6 figures without any hesitation I think.
 
I took 2 years of Spanish in high school and I can do alright for basic commands but... learning a new language is HARD! (for me anyway) :faint:
 
That's what makes it a good hobby, it's not something you can do overnight, it's something you have to put time and effort in to (WHEN AND HOW YOU WANT).
 
Anonymoose said:
Nebulous said:
I took 2 years of Spanish in high school and I can do alright for basic commands but... learning a new language is HARD! (for me anyway) :faint:


got rosetta stone?

no

Mike said:
That's what makes it a good hobby, it's not something you can do overnight, it's something you have to put time and effort in to (WHEN AND HOW YOU WANT).

Good point :highfive:
 
Nebulous said:
What is a good hobby to get into real quickly (without a ton of learning and skill)?

Why are you interested this hobby and does it occupy a large or small amount of your time?

Probably something like collecting things or writing. Doesn't mean you have to be good at it, but a lot of hobbies do require at least a bit of skill.
 
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