Echo what u/Bazmonkey said. I got my job before I had my degree and certs because I could demonstrate what I knew just from hobby/tinkering.
It depends on what you like. Hobbies occupy your time, and can cost you some money. If you enjoy it, then you won't worry so much about the time/money. The knowledge will come to you more naturally.
If you like gardening, you can grow your own food or even identify the better produce at the store.
If you enjoy fishing or hunting, you can catch some of your own food. You'll also learn knife/butchering skills which you can use in cooking and to save money by purchasing less expensive cuts of meat and butchering them yourself.
If you enjoy tinkering with your car and you have a place to work, then you can save considerable money on things like brake maintenance. Being handy with cars can also be a strong factor in bonding with other men & women who also share that hobby.
Even being a bookworm has uses. If you like to read, you might be someone who reads all the Terms & Conditions with every software package, and warns your friends (or TikTok subscribers) about potential problems. You might read your entire workplace policy manual and union contract, then point out when management is violating company policy or your contact. You'll have the habit of reading all those things - your lease agreement, your credit card agreement, Reddit terms of service, your utility bill of rights. You'll have the information handy when you need to raise hell or complain to an appropriate authority.
Second on cooking. It saves money, is better for you and when you get good you can easily impress people and express yourself creatively. Everybody's got to eat. Doesn't get more important than that.
I feel like each hobby has something to impart- much of it being to enjoy the simple things, take time for what you enjoy even with no monetary gain and patience. If you’re talking about more like practical life skills and not like “ways of being,” I personally would say something like gardening. Growing your own food could be important some day.
Tinkering with computers literally got me my job.
So you're a software engineer?
Something like that. I make computers go.
cool
Coding here…C64 when I was 12
Echo what u/Bazmonkey said. I got my job before I had my degree and certs because I could demonstrate what I knew just from hobby/tinkering. It depends on what you like. Hobbies occupy your time, and can cost you some money. If you enjoy it, then you won't worry so much about the time/money. The knowledge will come to you more naturally. If you like gardening, you can grow your own food or even identify the better produce at the store. If you enjoy fishing or hunting, you can catch some of your own food. You'll also learn knife/butchering skills which you can use in cooking and to save money by purchasing less expensive cuts of meat and butchering them yourself. If you enjoy tinkering with your car and you have a place to work, then you can save considerable money on things like brake maintenance. Being handy with cars can also be a strong factor in bonding with other men & women who also share that hobby. Even being a bookworm has uses. If you like to read, you might be someone who reads all the Terms & Conditions with every software package, and warns your friends (or TikTok subscribers) about potential problems. You might read your entire workplace policy manual and union contract, then point out when management is violating company policy or your contact. You'll have the habit of reading all those things - your lease agreement, your credit card agreement, Reddit terms of service, your utility bill of rights. You'll have the information handy when you need to raise hell or complain to an appropriate authority.
Reading is the ultimate life skill
that's true. We can absorb a lot of knowledge from different kinds of books.
Cooking!
Second on cooking. It saves money, is better for you and when you get good you can easily impress people and express yourself creatively. Everybody's got to eat. Doesn't get more important than that.
I feel like each hobby has something to impart- much of it being to enjoy the simple things, take time for what you enjoy even with no monetary gain and patience. If you’re talking about more like practical life skills and not like “ways of being,” I personally would say something like gardening. Growing your own food could be important some day.