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Start a blog.

Learn to cook.

Collect stamps/coins.

Make candles from your ear wax. 

Make your own alcohol.

Start a youtube channel and make videos about whatever hobby you pick up.

Become a streamer. If you're a girl this one can be lucrative (simps).

Get in the best shape of your life.

 

...you're asking us to pick a hobby for you?

Surely you have things you like to do, either alone or with friends. Surely. 

Commercial Real Estate Developer
 

CRE

...you're asking us to pick a hobby for you?

Surely you have things you like to do, either alone or with friends. Surely. 

Unfortunately, he does no hobbies and knows no hobbies, so WSO is his only hope. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Seconding gambling and guns.  Both are fun time sinks if you don't mind quickly losing chunks of your paycheck along the way, the second option being the preferable method of doing so if you're looking for practicality and a useful skill. 

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

Monkey_Suits

I would say learn how to cook. This will lead to better healthier meals for half the price of eating out.

You think this, but "learning how to cook" involves including waaaaay more butter, oil, cream, and salt than most people eat. 

Now of course portion control needs to be a part of the equation, but good cooking =/= healthy 

Commercial Real Estate Developer
 

You can learn to cook healthy?

Make a recipe then learn to make it healthier. Instead of butter in your box of Mac N Cheese use greek yogurt (at leats 2% non fat).

Helathy cooking can be delicious too.

 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

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