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...

[DYNAGOD]

best thing to do is to walk away..honestly
Im currently in the same boat. problem after problem...i just said enoughs enough.. i gotta walk away before i put a sledgehammer to it..
ijust needed some distance..
so ill play a little Americas Army and ventilate some opfor for a week or two ,and ill be good as new..
ill come back to it when im ready...its not going anywhere.

[Thenasty]

hehe, maraxle. This hobby never gets finished (at least for me). I have my cab for years and its not finished. I still have to do side art, marquee etc..and I only have about 700 games in the cab at the moment but everytime I get that felling, I just fire up my favs and play away. I only made sure that when I started the cab project, I made sure that I can play some games and not to worry about what sideart, marquee etc...I have to do. Your cab could be BOLD at this point but just get it up to a point where you can play a nice fav game of yours, this will take some frustations away and it leans you forward to completion (one day).

[Zakk]

I can concur.  You CAN walk away for a while, and then come back.  If you REALLY love steak (yum!), you still couldn't eat it day in and day out.

Some of the hobbies I turn to when I've had enough of cabinets:

1) kids (either having them or tending the flock)
2) Saltwater reefkeeping (this one will get you a quick divorce if the wife sees the receipts for some of this stuff!)
3) Squash (no not the eating kind)
4) Console games
5) My job (yeah it's like a hobby!)
6) Gambling (see description for #2 above)
7) In-law heckling (Telling my republican in-laws how we just loooove our Liberal government here is good for hours of squaking fun!)
Home renovation (tired of building a cabninet? Fix those squeeeeeky pipes!)
9) Astronomy (get a good telescope, and remember you don't always need to point that thing up!)


So have some fun, then come back to Mame later!

[Floyd10]

If you're really obsessed with the end result, and not the building as much, hire someone to do it for you. give them something like 100 plus expenses.

[missioncontrol]

just take a break...go back in a week or so with a fresh outlook then the peises should fit together......