I just graduated optometry school and I feel like I’ve lost a bit of my identity. I didn’t have much free time to focus on the things that make me happy and now I’m lacking inspiration. I can’t work until my license is approved so I’ve had days of doing nothing since May 7. It’s been great but it’s starting to get boring; I can only play so much Zelda and doom scroll so often.
So whatcha got? What do you like to do? What are some hobbies or passions everyone has? What are non-drinking related activities to do with a partner or friends?
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Let’s see… Woodworking, car repair/restoration, home improvement (from redecoration to remodels), kayaking, camping, mild 4x4 offroad stuff, hiking, latte art, playing a banjo very poorly, 3D printing, coding for microcontrollers, coding dumb games, gardening, making my garage shop nicer, book binding, painting (as in walls, not that artistic stuff), making bread, diagraming the nightmare of 100-year-old wiring in my house (planning a rewire), occasional motorcycle rides. Probably some other things I’ve forgotten about.
If you’ll have free time for a while still you could maybe find an easy job to do. If you don’t really need the income there are a lot of things that can be fun.
Coffee shops can be pretty cool, depending on the business there are some interesting things to learn, and it’s generally low-pressure work if you’re not a complete idiot.
If you like cats and dogs animal shelters usually are happy to have volunteers. You’d probably be cleaning up shit a lot of the time, but that’s not hard and you can balance it by giving the critters much-needed and appreciated attention. You can also volunteer to do things like bottle-feeding baby animals, that tends to take a lot of time so shelters are frequently looking for volunteers.
Optometry is a small world so I had found a temporary part time job at a local office needing a tech so I was a “super tech” for the owner for 4-5 weeks. But I do start working for real next week already (it really snuck up on me, thought I had a couple more). I love some of your suggestions! I wish I had a house to do projects with and land to garden on. I’ve done hydroponic tomatoes at a precious apartment complex which was interesting but I prefer in ground.