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Is it time to hang it up?
maraxle:
As I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated by my current project, which should have been an easy conversion from a decent empty cabinet to a MAME machine, I'm wondering if it's time to take a break or hang it up entirely. This project has taken me way too long, and I find myself not being all that excited about tackling the next cabinet that's waiting in my shed right now (though that one truly will be easy). I dunno. Maybe it's just the frustrations from other parts of my life finally seeping into my hobbies...
Sorry, just needed to vent. Anybody else ever hit a wall like this on their favorite hobby?
menace:
yep thats why i picked up a few more hobbies--so that when i tire of one I switch to the other--eventually you get re-invigurated and come back fresh--working on something that you don't like is called work and most people I know have JOBS that fill this niche nicely--a hobby should be fun.
take a break--learn auto repair, build a home theater pc, take up rc vehicles, build a robot, you get the idea...
Apollo:
Yeah it can take a while. Is their anything we can help with. What are you having problems doing exactly?
Daniel270:
What are some of the other hobbies you guys have? I've cycled a couple times through a few...
1) Building Aggravation game boards
2) Tinkering with the MAME Machine
3) Collecting parts to restore a VeeDub Beetle (indefinite hold on this one)
4) PC, Board and Console Games
5) Internet Browsing for above hobbies
danny_galaga:
wouldn't matter how many new hobbies i picked up, i'd get stalled on each one in turn!
my oldest and most pathalogical hobby is building models. r/c, control line. cars boats planes. but i've kinda let it go in the last few years. what i'm rediscovering is plastic models. i have a taste for 1/72 WWII. i promised myself i'd build a little cabinet for them before i start building again (i've got about a dozen, no make that 12 ready to build). of course i still havent built the cabinet so i haven't started building the models ::)
how long have you been stalled, maraxle?
p.s: pic of a 1/144th scale model with broken undercarriage. 1/144th is a bit TOO fiddly for me i think...
edit; undercarriage broke maybe ten years ago. now that's what i call dragging your feet...