Had a doctor appointment today and the paper-paperwork was mostly a repeat of the fill-this-out-every-time-you-have-an-appointment-digital history except it asked about work history AND
“Do you have any hobbies?”
Now, this was looking for potentially health-threatening exposures, I get it, but I am rather put off by lumping my painting/printing/etc into something called “hobbies”, so I put it down under work stuff – Artist (painting/printing/fiber). Then the doc and I had a chat about that – what kind, no solvents, etc, etc.
It does have me wondering though, “do you have any hobbies?”
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I’m with you! The things we do are our lives, our work-of-this-part-of-life. They are not “hobbies” that can be swapped out for the next big thing. Though I’m sure some people have hobbies that endure, that they love. I guess that the word – and the connotation that it has for me – makes my teeth curl. Unserious. Frivolous. Bah!