do you have many many interests or hobbies?
then share!


i'm into too many myself. food, fishing, cars, any kind of scaping, construction, art(minus paintings), technology, finance/economy, business, anime, fashion, martial arts, games(but decided to quit, can't afford time), and a bunch of other stuff. and all of those branch out into more detailed areas.
i've done a lot, but there's whole lot more on my to do list.

edit:
also, where could i meet people with multiple/many interests and hobbies?

I'm mostly into listening to classical music now. From time to time I'll paint/draw landscape type stuff or maybe even portraits. I still play piano and guitar...but mostly piano. I picked up reading again, I find that TV makes me angry nowadays. I used to be into tech crap but that went away with puberty and into fashion and whatnot.

It's hard to meet other people with as wide a range of interests. I only know two people who are like that, and meeting them was purely out of coincidence!

I'm into: fashion, architecture, digital art, international relations, the global water crisis, languages, travelling, culture, different forms of dance (house, lock, breaking), electronic music genres, and literature, and writing. It's hard to find someone to connect with on similar points when you have too many though.

My main hobbies are photography, playing flute, watching movies, and playing tetris (as sad as that sounds, it is my favorite game ever and I am quite good at it). Other interests include travel, toy & figurine collection, gaming (PS3, wii, PSP, DSi), food, anime, manga, manhwa, Korean music, reading, bowling (badly), golf (badly), rollerblading (badly), and cars and driving. I don't think I have a wide range of interests/hobbies.

i think another interesting question was how people ended up with their interests or hobbies..because I know for me it was kind of like a step-by-step process, lol..
i was interested in languages..which got me interested in traveling..and traveling around to different places got me interested in history, other cultures..which got me interested in food, etc etc. also literature, economics, politics are other big ones
i'm more of a social science than physical science (suck at math) person but have always been interested in astronomy too..not sure why
i'm actually surprised i'm not one of those people who changed their major half a dozen times



besides online..hmm..clubs (the non-alcoholic kind), different social groups..work, if your job is the type that attracts intelligent co-workers..really I think it's just random so the more people you meet the greater chance you have

Some interests: photography (I own several slrs and also a tlr), daily sketches in my moleskine sketchbook, disease & pathology as it's related to my career, military history, traveling, majorly girly stuff like handbags, fashion, skincare, and makeup. I also love the great outdoors and places seemingly untouched by civilization. Backcountry camping, roadtripping, hiking, landscape photography, you name it, I love it. Also love quiet time with books and reading light science magazines.

Other interests I would like to get into: cooking. I'm not very good at cooking

Haha hmmm.. Sudoku, traveling, ancient history, classical history, drawing, painting, interior decorating, redecorating old stuff, crafts(sewing, making mini cooper), reading makeup/fashion/interior design blogs, reading, baking, food, photography, watching movies. going to aquariums, zoos, and museums.

I like fishing, but I suck balls at it.

drawing, painting, fashion, (graphic/interior) design, cooking/baking/food in general, gundam models, paper craft, travelling, anime/manga, watching National Geographic (especially when it's about the universe/history/planes/architecture), photography

I have a wide range of interests too, though not many of my friends that I know are also into them.

Drawing (sketching/digital), crafting (making original plush dolls), baking, gardening, pets - dogs, the outdoors (hiking, travelling), rollerblading, basketball, korean media (music, variety shows, dramas), gaming (DS, ps2 - guitar hero world tour!!, used to with PC), photography (i need my own good camera first), technology, reading mags (Frankie - pop culture, cookbooks, good health), shopping for bargains, making money

this thread seems like a pretty good start. reading the replies, alot of you guys have common interests too.

i want to know myself!

as for me, im into:

-outdoor stuff: fishing, hunting, camping, making bonfires, rock climbing, boating, mountain biking, hell even tree climbing
-building things.. anything from legos/knex to car parts to a tree house. even furniture is fun to assemble
-drugs(not exactly a proud aspect): mainly just pot, but i have been gettin a bit more experimental lately. i cant seem to find asian buddys who smoke bud!
-conversations while high... which covers astronomy, philosophy, religion, sociology, psychology, etc etc... along with random jokes
-debates while high... can last for days even... but surprisingly we come to an agreeable conclusion at the end
-cars. not too much into racing(yet), but i read automotive news.. and have my buddies who share similar interests/tastes
-recently got into reading books. been reading an autobiography on albert einstein
-poker.. or any sort of gambling, really.
-cooking every now and then. at least the eating part for sures.
-martial arts and sparring
-physics... def a new one
-love watching national geographic, bbc, history channel, etc... how can it not be interesting?!?
-huge into music. anything from hip hop to techno to country to classical. good music is good music.
-people. you can learn so much from others
-i still have this destructive urge.. i love breaking things.. lol
-sports. not too big into watching it on TV.. but im down to play whatever, whenever.
-shopping, usually only for my own stuff.
-movies

ehh i might as well make a shorter list of things i dislike lol


basically i seek adventure. been sorta failing at life as far as academics and success goes... but im workin on it

My hobbies are drawing, horse-riding, gaming (PS3, Wii, PC and anything retro), bowling, writing. I'm really into skin-care and hair-care products lol! I love wild-life documentaries and going to the zoo; K-pop and J-pop, languages and Disney movies!

I've never met anyone who shares a love of all these things, but it's okay, I can share some hobbies with certain people.

If I went to a liberal arts school or a big university, I would have switched my major a couple dozen times by now. Instead, I went to a tech school. Thanks to it, I've gotten watered down humanity classes. Woo hoo...

My bf has a lot of hobbies and since we like to do things together, he gets me into a lot of things. We're into photography, roadtripping, animals (mainly dogs and reptiles), gardening, camping, backpacking, baseball, football, jigsaw puzzles, and a lot of other stuff.

We're currently learning how to ride a bike.

cool! this thread is turning out better than i thought it would.
it's good to see that there are people with lots of interests. because there's so much to offer in this world, and these experiences make life more fulfilling. at least that's what i believe.

@Tamago86
"i wanted to try it once..." -HG
lol.
for me, when i see anything that sparks my interests, i get into it. and i read and research and learn and play until i'm satisfied with it.

I guess I have a lot of interests and hobbies:

drawing (some painting, but I am too cheap to buy all the equipment for my new apartment)
singing (classic as well as pop)
reading and analyzing literature (I was an English major, so I need to keep my skills at top-notch)
watching and analyzing films
photography (I always have at least two cameras on me)
writing (poetry. I don't enjoy writing fiction or non-fiction)
researching random things for hours on end (a certain painting, historical event, etc)
guitar (4-5 nights a week)
piano (but I don't have a piano where I live now, so now, I do only guitar)
studying Korean and Spanish
fashion (this can also be translated into "shopping", but I enjoy researching it, as well)
bar hopping (go to an area with a few friends, find the weirdest looking bar, have a drink, and then go to another. Most of us do PR for different party/event groups, so it's in our best interest to know about the random and best places to go)
walking (this may sound lame, but I like to just take my ipod and walk around a part of the city that I've never been in)
club scene (this one is a new one. This year, I've become part of several event/party groups, so my weekends are packed with socializing with Seoul's "social elite"...hahaha...the kind of people you seen in all the party photos in a magazine and crap like that. Events like this dominate at least three evenings a week.)
kpop (um, it's fun to know about it...)

-ginger

How did you get involved/part of the "social elite" in Seoul?

i have a wide range of range of interests and hobbies

boxing.. (training everyday cept sunday and fighting in amateur/pro bouts)
piano- playying for 13 years started at a very young age but due to dislocated wrists can't play as well as i used to
sports in general - not meaning to braagg but i'm pretty damn awesome at everything lol- just kidding
music - ranging from classical to Rnb to hardcore Gansta rap...i enjoy all music..even death metal coz my friends got me into that
youtube
eating
sleeping in- yes they are actual hobbies
annoying my dog
computer games
movies
going for long runs
travelling - which i hope to do more of once i'm outta uni
people who are genuinely funny without trying to be
as much as i love being lazy i also love doing things that will give me a hit of adrenalin.

I agree. I also have to add napping into my interests. I enjoy a really nice nap in the afternoon either inside or sometimes outside.

I have a lot of different interests as well. I actually think a lot of people are like that. The world is full of so many different things I think it's hard not to take interest in multiple things.

I enjoy:
Video games
Computer games
Art
Drawing
Reading
Cartoons
Animated movies
Camping
Fishing
Nature
Gardening

and there's so so much more~

my hobbies...hmm...
Artsy fartsy type stuff:
3D, drawing, painting, writing, singing, dancing, photography, web design, learning piano, playing trombone, yes I can play a trombone...thanks middle school band classes!! LOL
I used to read a lot of manga, but I stopped when I ran out of room to put them on my bookshelves. Still need to get rid of them!
Collecting CG magazines, CG art books, Calvin & Hobbes books <3, cookbooks, books about crimes, ghosts, or vampires...
crochet, knitting, sewing
learning languages
gaming
computers
cars
shopping
makeup

and I'm sure there's more not on this list, I have a crapload of hobbies.

I am in to:
Photography (digital)
Cars (Import modification I guess what is what they call it)
Track Driving
Video Games
Anime/Manga
Cooking
Reading
Music (My love is always for R&B, I do listen to a lot of hip hop, I like Jazz, and everything else I can usually listen to pretty easy)
Clubbing (I guess? I just happen to go out a lot with friends. Know too many promoters so it's freeeee and fun to dance and stuff)
Psychology (I usually do random experiments just to try things out and test things out... while people aren't paying attention haha)
Guns (Target shooting. Mainly pistols and rifles.)
Tattoos

I am sure I have some others, but I cannot think of them right now haha

I like to drink and play golf. I'm a pretty good drinker but a terrible golfer though. Gambking is fun but that didn't work out too well so I stopped that...

I went to a wine special advertised on facebook that a friend of a friend had set up, started hanging out with that crew on the weekends, then met this one guy who is really well connected (he's a producer in the Kpop music biz). Then, we met a few more guys (working for magazines or PR groups) at parties and we all got along well.

*I'm* not a "social elite", but it's enough to go to a hot party and know/be recognized by 1/3 of the people in the VIP. Connections lead to connections, which lead to connections. My friends and I don't really take it seriously, but it's fun to rub elbows with certain people and then laugh/talk about it the next day.

-ginger

Boring list much?
ahahaha!!!! Weird.

i have many interests, but my main hobbies are classical piano, martial arts, tricks (acrobatic sport) photography and video games (im talking about hobbies that i spend at least 4-5 hours on per week). other minor hobbies are singing and acting, but just amateur level and for fun. i have many other interests as well but i'm too lazy to type them up

Let's see here...

piano
swimming
running
food
making money online (YES)
business/marketing/DECA
political ideologies
singing
dancing
linguistics

I always say this: "If only I had 15 lives, $100,000, and 500 years, maybe I'll reach the true happiness of complete knowledge"

INTRUDER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't post here until you turn 20!

I have many interests, but if I actually tried to do something about it.... that's a different story. Most of them are "someday i will do it"

Anyway, my interests/hobbies are:

reading
writing
Spanish
Japanese
Chinese (particularly the characters)
drawing
music
movies
photoshop
video games
learning to play piano, drum, guitar
traveling the world (or most of it)

recently:

Catholicism
cooking
getting in shape
Rubik's cube
makeup
saving enough money to buy a house before before I'm 30

i like..

wrestling (i wrestle in college)
martial arts (studied for about 9 years)
judo (picked up in college)
sports (soccer, squash, lax, football, watching & participating, etc.)
exercise (lifting, running, weird conditioning programs, non-traditional lifting routines, etc.)
nutrition (it's my major..)
science (like nanoparticles & antimatter)
cooking (i love cooking)
fine dining
brewing beer
coffee (making mocha frappuccinos)
drawing
hands on crafts
nature/wildlife
meeting new people (whether at parties, random locations, or online)
solitude (reflection)
drinking
movies (comedy, action, thriller, adventure)
music (rock, alt, hip hop, pop)
family

I've been in and out from several different hobbies.

Hobbies I still do:
Cars
-repairing
-spending money on parts
-driving
-racing (legal)
Music
-hip hop
-trance, techno, dance
Photography
-general
Day dreaming
-Who doesn't like to day dream?
Game
-Who doesn't game?
-I do it a lot to pass time

Old hobbies
Car model building
-not enough money/time
Card playing
-Use to play a lot, times changed since school, don't have many people to play cards with

New hobbies
Tennis
-started yesterday and I liked it
Pole Position indoor kart racing
-Goes hand in hand with cars, I love to race. I also love air conditioning and racing, it makes the experience 100 times better.

Oh yes,

I have recently picked up an interested in watching sports because of my housemates hahaha.

Pfft, where is YOUR list perv? Yeah, I don't see your empty boring list loser

Look harder!!

You should know my list already, since you're a fellow perv.

Here's my gamut of various, incongruous interests and hobbies:

1. Reading things on: pharmacy, medicine, science, mathematics, nuclear physics, physics in general, metaphysics, philosophy, intelligence quotients and the like, literary stuff, sometimes poetry.
2. Reading and writing research papers on dermatology, neurology and oncology, studying, writing short stories, novels, reviews and many other things.
3. Going to forums and lurking about.
4. Learning new languages currently working on Mandarin, Korean, Japanese and French. I want to learn Polish, German, Thai, Cantonese, Fokkien, Russian, Portuguese, Finnish and Spanish.
5. Anime
6. Watching TV/Documentary specials related to math and science
7. Cross-stitching
8. Cooking and infusing culinary masterpieces of different cultures
9. Shopping
10. Fashion (eccentric styles of punk, rocker, goth, preppy to clean and casual)
11. Singing and composing my own songs in English, Filipino and Mandarin.
12. Learning and practicing how to write in different languages, currently on caligraphy.
13. Studying about hieroglyphics and making my own codes.
14. Dancing
15. Drawing
16. Making chocolate and quick snacks (I know that this should be in cooking but I do it separately)
17. Exercising (Aerobics, Taebo, Air Climber, crunches, etc.)
18. Tennis
19. Go Cart Racing
20. American Football
21. Video Games
22. MUSIC! Punk rock especially and classicals.
23. Piano and violin
24. PHARMACY and anything related to it and medicine since it is my MAJOR. >_<
25. Teaching English.

-johdirockette

I have too many, and it scares me how much money I wasted on them all.

There's hardly anything I don't like.

Shopping would be top of the list though.

Foreign Languages
Sports
Working-out
Music
Business
Movies
Saving Money

I'm glad this thread was created since I'm always interested in learning what range of hobbies/interests people have.

Here are a few of mine:

- discovering good music (indie, electro/dance, alt/rock, some kpop/jpop)
- reading articles (mostly) and books on psychological, social, health, and world issues; also love reading well-written fiction
- learning different languages
- expanding my vocabulary (although my vocab bank doesn't reflect it very much)
- playing sports (not very often, since I need to find people to play with!)
- comedies, documentaries, and psychological thrillers (movie, tv,...or youtube, hehe)
- creating my own sense of style (including discovering hidden gems in second-hand stores)
- people-watching (man...the stuff people will do when they think no one is watching)
- learning about new gadgets (esp. the ones I can actually afford)
- piano/violin (though I don't play much, I really want to start composing music on GarageBand)
- budgeting my finances (odd, I know, but I enjoy the financial security of living within my means )

I'm sure there's more but they're not coming to mind atm

That's because you haven't tried drinking WHILE golfing. Drinking and gambling go together well too.

I am interested in:

Psychology, my major (memory, learning, infant development)
Art History, my minor (High Italian Renaissance, East Asian Art)
Photography
Baking
Making jewelry, folding origami things, making greeting cards
Fashion
Documentaries on social issues
Writing and reading
Body language (my newest interest)
Learning Japanese
Music
Movies

I have a lot of interests but haven't met many people that do (seems all that people do in Korea is drink, eat, club/party, noraebang, old people go hiking or golf) so this thread is interesting for me.

• camping, canoeing, fishing (fly fishing, bass fishing, mostly freshwater)
• cars
• brands
• traveling
• making Star Trek and Star Wars models
• martial arts
• airsoft
• anime, comics (mostly independents, i have some friends who work in the industry so just buy their books)
• photography (need to get a DSLR)
• cooking, having a BBQ
• fine dining and ethnic foods
• tennis, soccer, ping pong, billiards (8 ball, and Korean 4 cushion), bowling, hockey, broomball
• sailing, swimming
• music
• sleep
• debate in politics, philosophy, science, and religion
• surfing FWA and other web design sites
• random YouTube videos
• kpop
• all things Apple
• advertising gossip/news
• gadgets, new technology (<3 Engadget)
• PC gaming, console gaming (Wii, XBOX360, PS3) as well as the old skool like Nintendo, Atari, C64...
• painting (water, acrylic, oil on canvas), sculpture, pottery, graphics/web design
• writing, blogging, Twitter
• instant messaging, Stickam
• interior decorating (am continually trying to make a better, cooler pad), often watched those shows on HGTV like "Design on a Dime"
• movies (love action, sci-fi, dramas)
• Discovery Channel, History Channel, BBC
• wine, beer, cocktails, general partying
• randomly walking around and getting lost and trying to find my way home
• girls
• summer night time driving down the PCH (back when i had my Z4)
• window shopping
• forums (surfing and building them mostly Drupal and phpBB these days), internet surfing

that's fusion cooking

My range of interests isn't as varied as some, but it has grown in the past couple of years.

cooking
baking
sewing
embroidery
crocheting
cross stitching
photography (although I am in no way equipped or educated, just doing my own thing)
reading
keeping up with/watching Korean TV shows and music
reading blogs (about cooking, crafting, keeping house, etc.)
Christian faith
learning about beauty/fashion in a personalized way (only applies to me, not into fancy stuff)
collecting pandas (stuffed animals, anything with a panda character, etc.)
organic food/gardening (again, not doing it myself but reading about it)
being more green
singing
piano
health/fitness/nutrition (whether it be doing my wii fitness or keeping track of what I eat on sparkpeople.com or walking my dog several times a day)
being a good wife

strategy games- mainly poker
cooking- i like trying new recipes
eating out- trying new places to dine are always fun
church
exercising
hockey- i play for two hockey teams
golfing
watching movies
and i want to get into trap shooting and snowboarding soon

i try to limit myself.. it never works

- music, i play both flute and piano.. i try to sing
- dance, traditional, hiphop, testing out ballroom
- writing, either stories, scripts, screenplays
- food
- filming, video, mv's, making up whatever nonesense...
- recording, playing around with audacity
- soompi-ing
- critiquing.. does that count?
- camping
- canoeing
- volleyball
- fashion
- cooking
- painting, my fave. is water colors and acrylics.. testing out airbrush here and there
- FISHING!!!

- i dont know much about cars, but i dont mind learning?
- french, korean, thai, sign language, swahili.
- i LOVE African politics and history!!!!
- i like looking at maps and finding out places i never heard of.
- writing lyrics.
- TRY rapping.
- TRY singing.
- crochet/ sew.
- clean.
- exercise.
- music.
- international soccer. BOCO JUNIORS!!! woop! woop!
- politics.

QUOTE

making Star Trek and Star Wars models

i LOVE star trek and Star Wars!
that's one thing i like doing... READ STAR WARS SCRIPT LINES. *runs away*

but anyways, yah. i think i have a range of things i can/like to do.

hmm... what qualifies as "many"? I have a few..

I'm really into photography (portraits, landscape, event coverage at my university, studio), racing, cars, car installations, drawing, Asian music..... hmmmm i think that's it. lol

I think having too much of a wide range of interest isn't healthy FOR ME
I don't seem to focus. it's like having ADHD or ADD. let me clarify.

when you have one or two interest, you tend to focus and achieve the highest quality of knowledge towards that interest.
making you a guru, which in return, you will be noticed as a "skilled" individual.

I'll be honest. I'm into a lot of stuff and I've experienced this directly
I'm into photography, guitar, education, survival, electronics, medicine, literature, language, cars, working out, games and more.

I know about 1/3 of everything I'm interested in, and I'm utterly not satisfied. for ex: i've been learning the guitar for about a year, and i've learned a couple of songs that i like. but i still don't know fundamental knowledge about the guitar. (scales, rhythm, etc) Why? i'm not focused or dedicated. once i'm done playing one or two songs on the guitar, i start exercising. Exercising your biceps has nothing to do with guitar..

ya, so just a heads up, even tho i have broad knowledge about all sorts of stuff. it's useless in the end.

edit -

but then again i guess it's just simple everyday interest thread. i must be overreacting.

^ Yeah, the way people are posting would make them seem like they have ADHD. I bet they're just posting everything they're interested in.

Exactly how I feel. These past few months or so I've been indulging in these hobbies and they totally feed into my creativeness and that makes me incredibly happy, but honestly, spread out way too thin! I'm narrowing my focuses so I can be the best I can be rather than learning half-ass knowledge or techniques when I can polish my skills for a true understanding of the skill.