Off Topic, What else are you into?

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Okay, I know it's O.T., but I'm a little curious about some of my fellow traditional forumites. What do you all do professionally, and to relax afterward. Any other hobbies/collections?
 
Jack-of-all-trades :D

Building maintenance for a housing authority, so I get to do a little bit of everything. Plumbing, wiring, welding, painting, floor tile, wall tile, cabinets and countertops - you name it.

I can only afford one hobby at a time, and right now that is knives. I may have to buy another gun or two, my birthdays may have caught up (everyone should have as many guns as birthdays ;) )
 
52, write software for a living (30 years of it), my family, dogs and reading are important in my life and I am very lucky to have more good friends than I should have or even deserve.

I have too many hobbies for a sane person and at the same time it is not unusual for me to go weeks without turning on my T.V. So I have the time.

They range from shooting to rock collecting and it looks like kayaking and rafting are back on the agenda since I just about have my back healed up. (note to bull-headed self, next time I am over 45 or so, do not under any circumstances pick up an anvil out of the trunk of your car by yourself.)

My dogs and I can be found just about every evening no matter the weather (me walking, sometimes jogging, them running around) in a 3 acre area of woods near my house with a group of friends who have been doing the same thing for years. Great group of folks with varied backgrounds and life experiences who have become close. The land belongs to the county and last year we convinced them to turn it into an off leash dog park. We got tired of dodging the bastidville constabulary out there and the 280.00 buck tickets they were handing out to some of us that were a little more blatant got to all of us. I was pretty involved and it was a time consuming effort. That is the closest I ever want to be to politics and don't want to go there again. :D
 
Retired from federal law enforcement.

Into hiking, canoeing/kayaking, amateur astronomy, motorcycling. Other passions are reading, and blues & jazz music.

I've got a three year old Weimaraner than runs me ragged as well.
 
Hi! Jackknife, I'd like to compliment you on your interesting posts. I'm an old soul. I play double bass in a jazz band in my school.
 
I write software, mainly websites.
Train in Muay Thai (Kickboxing)
Camp, Hike, Run, try to get outside after being in an office all day.
Read a lot. Mainly non-fiction.
Got into knives when my grandfather gave me his Solingen Scout knife
when I was 7.
 
I'm currently a layed off,machinist/tool maker and in my spare time,which there has been a lot of lately,i like to shoot,read gun,knife,and outdoor magazines and my nights are taken up by this and other forums.
 
Systems Analyst - Business Equipment.

Sports, fishing, bird watching, growing peppers, eating good food.

I like good blues music and road trips on the red and blue highways, with a few miles done on the unpaved roads.
 
I'm currently a dispatcher for the local pd/fd, and most of my off time I spend reading, collecting knives, shooting, squirrel hunting (in season of course), fishing, whittling or just sitting around being lazy.
 
I'm a senior marketing manager for a biomedical company. It's suit and tie Monday through Friday, but I hang those up for waders on the weekends and enjoy spending my time fishing. Took a couple of days off this week and my daughter and I went and caught a stringer full of catfish today. How about you jackknife? Retired, still working?
 
I'm a web developer - db admin. Database design, web apps, stuff like that. I used to hunt and fish, but I don't have fun myself anymore, because I have boys that are old enough to have fun, but too young to drive. So for fun I take them places. Mostly High School baseball and karate. We still get to do a little hunting and fishing now and then

I have more guns than birthdays, more knives than guns, and more books that guns and knives and birthdays put together. I give away books about once a year so we'll have room to live in our house.
 
Well, former soldier (11.5 yrs active), then a photographer for a while. Now, I'm a security officer at a financial center (about 4000 employees total, all shifts) which often seems more like baby sitting.

For life, read/think/contemplate. Enjoy learning about a number of things. Guns have always been a strong interest. Perhaps because like knives, they connect me to a different time and way of life. I enjoy shooting (many forms and types of firearms), but don't get out much anymore. Haven't fished for years, but may again someday. Made walking sticks now and then.

I have a few new directions/returning to other things I'm leaning towards. Since my days off are Thursday and Friday, the dog and I take many a Thursday and waste a day laying around. We nap, read, well I read, she watches "Andi TV." (The window over the head of the bed.) We nap some more. Mixed in are belly rubs, head rubs, and such, with maybe ruffing up a stuffed toy here and there. Music, deep thoughts, daydreaming, and some contemplation gets tossed in the mix too. Fridays, now and then, see the trips to the gun shop for looking, handling, basic BSing, and the occasional dealing.

Oh yeah, and I spend time on this folder which often leads to turible temptations.
 
I'll be 47 tomorrow.

I too am into guns, reading, music, and animals, though mine are of the feline persuasion. I also write software for a living, going on 28 years now (things sure have changed, haven't they!). Seems like a common thread developing here... Been into a number of other hobbies over the years, including a long stint in motorcycling; starting to get into photography now.

Played in bands (guitar, bass) for years but had to give up active gigging since my wrists aren't up to it anymore (ganglia). I was getting too old to be hauling equipment at 3am anyway. :)

I still shoot a lot: trap, benchrest, pistol. I belong to a local range/club and feel myself slowly getting dragged into its supervisory committee. I'll be running their website soon, too...

I've been lucky enough to live in a number of nice places in this country: I was born in semi-rural MA, moved to NH before I was 20, moved to CO in my 30s, and I've been in OR for the last 10 years. And I'm not even in the military.

-- Sam
 
Recently retired firefighter after 27 years. Hobbies include guns & just about anything outdoors. (warm weather mostly) Canoeing, hiking, golf, biking....:)
 
Evil scientist planning to take over the world.:D

Well, not really. I don't think that I'm evil, and I'm too damn tired to take over the world, even if I knew how.:D

Aside from my work and raising my 4-year old twin girls, along with the occasional dab of military reserve service that we do over here, I am lucky to have a little time left over for reading and a trip to the range once in a while.

Lots of friends (a number on these forums) round things out a bit.
 
Former Paratrooper, infantry type, 1 ea. ;) Fat now. Went to culinary school after I got out and am now a restaurant and private party chef. Into fishing, shooting, outdoors, gardening, websites, good food, good drink, and knives. :D
 
I'm a corporate manager in the insurance industry. I know, :barf:

I'm married with a four year old daughter which basically means I live with two women whose full time job it is to make sure I never have a moment to myself. When I'm not working I tend to be doing dad things and when I'm not doing that I'm trying to finish remodeling our master bath.

My main hobby which I don't get to do nearly as much as I'd like is woodworking. I've also taken up whittling as I can do that when I take my daughter to the park, which is most days in the spring and summer, after work and on weekends. I guess that was inevitable though, since it involves both wood and pocketknives.

I wouldn't call it a hobby, but I do like to go shooting at the range, and also shoot trap. I'm not at all serious about it and I just consider it recreation. I do that probably once a month on average. Like most of you guys, I like guns and as with knives my tastes run to the traditional. I've got a lever action Winchester rifle chambered in Colt 45, two Ruger .357 mag revolvers, a Cimmaron Single Action Army also in .45 LC, a side by side 12 guage coach gun, and a 12 guage Mossberg Pump but that mainly stays under my bed.

I used to play golf quite a bit, but that went by the wayside when my daughter came.

Oh and last but not least, I fancy myself to be quite a grillsman. In particular my baby backs have quite a following.

Off topic maybe, but this has turned out to be a great thread. Thanks once again, Jackknife!
 
I work for NASA and manage a test facility. I hope to retire in 2 years. In my early days I was involved in competative NBRSA rife shooting. Being raised in a Huntsville, Alabama cotton mill village, my Dad and Uncle were avid hunters of coons, rabbits, quail, and ground hogs. Prior to getting into competative rifle shooting, I really got hooked into long range shooting of ground hogs in the southern Tennessee hills just north of Huntsville. For the past 15 years my wife and I have been into gardening. We collect daylilies, hosta and hydrangea.

Randy
 
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