June 4 2023 - 2023 Hobbies

 

It is almost half way through the year.  Have you considered starting a new hobby? Are there new hobbies to start?  Ones that didn't exist before?  Cold water swimming - start in the summer months when water temperatures are a little warmer. Plogging - an amalgamation jogging and pluck upp (picking in Swedish) - combines jogging and litter-picking. Microcementing - create worktops, storage units, coffee tables and decorative vases by putting concrete textures on surfaces. Bullet journalling - no need for punctuation with a bullet journal - just a notebook and pen Are hobbies something that would impress on a resume?  "Done right, hobbies a resume can help you and out from other candidates, show a bit of your personality to the hiring manager, and potentially even get you the job!" And the hobbies you should have on your resume?  That's no surprise.  The top ones are: Community involvement - volunteering, writing, blogging, learning languages, photography and sports.   And what hobbies should be left out of a resume? Nothing specific is listed - general advice is stay away from things that signal antisocial behaviour, political or religious views, violent or dangerous activities, and ones with little or no interactivity.   And weird hobbies?  These include:  tree shaping, beetle fighting, newsraiding, extreme ironing, stone skipping, suing, element collecting, competitive duck herding and toy voyaging (toys need a vacation).  The article concludes with these examples:  "did you know that… Claudia Schiffer is an insect collector John Travolta is a jumbo jet pilotMike Tyson is a pigeon racer Tom Selleck is an avocado farmer   Here's a hobby - train conductor the Strasburg Railway Line. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Hobby On!

A prelude to my post today is to ask you to contact me if you experienced a gap in receiving the Photo of the Day.  At the  beginning of October, the percentage of opens dropped significantly.  In the last day or two, I've received emails from recipients welcoming me back to Photo of the Day.  I have sent out posts every day, so I've concluded that some of the email systems such as sympatico had problems which have now been fixed. If you find yourself in this situation in the future, the photo of the day is posted on my blogs - blog.marilyncornwell.com and opengardensniagara.blogspot.com Today I decided to explore our interests and past-times.  I didn't need to do much work at all.  Did you know that the following are actually identified as hobbies: Tatooing vehicles - self-evident but still strange Mooing - competition in Wisconsin, recently won by a ten-year-old boy Faking your own death  - known as pseudocide - variations exist and the most famous one is one man whose hobby is acting out murder scenes - calls himself Dead Body Guy Competitive dog grooming - dogs dyed various colours and trimmed weirdly to look like flamingoes, clowns, leopards, parrots, etc making them look like freaks - particularly since the groomers dress the same  Tape art - using old cassette tape, adhesive tape, duct tape, etc to make  to make pictures, particularly street art - has a society and website - this one is worth looking at  Trainspotting - an ordinary hobby - but Train Surfing is extraordinary - jumping on the outside of a passenger train and hitching a ride Navel fluff collecting -the yuk one in the list - again one strange man who has done this for more than 20 years so has evidence of his interest  Extreme ironing - ironing things in strange places - mountains, rivers, skydiving...a yearly competition to prove it exists Hikaru Dorodango - this is polishing dirt - take a ball of mud, draw the moisture out of it while coating it with finer and finer layers of soil after which you start to work the dirt by polishing it by hand into a sphere.  This is a Japanese art and the word means 'mud dumpling'. You can read about it at Wikipedia HERE.  News-Bombing - there is only one person doing this - he is an ugly man in the UK who goes to live news broadcast locations to stand in the background behind the journalist - making a point about allowing ugly people on-screen There are new and amazing things to discover about us humans that I could not have imagined possible. We are both funny and bizarre I found these exposed tree roots with their complex swirling shapes and textures in Minneapolis.

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