How to develop hobbies in remote work culture?

Question

I spend awful amount of time (~10 hrs to 12 hrs) in front of computer. I am required to because of my job as well as part time masters and bad habits I have developed such as sitting for a long time.I am trying to become a funny person who has life and not just someone who spends time in front of computer. What are ways to develop hobbies? I go for a walk, but I don&rsquo;t consider that as a hobby.I guess whatever I do, I come back to feel that I am wasting time and I should work more to earn more.Please suggest hobbies (solo are better) and any ways to develop them.

retrac · Accepted Answer

Hobbies have no limit to variety. It's a regular, thematically-linked set of activities, often towards something productive, but which places nearly all the emphasis on the process. If it is too general, then narrow it down.
Programming. -> Code golfing. -> Find the optimal implementation of X on processor Y.
Program [classic machine] -- on pen and paper to get rid of all the distractions. I suppose the original Sudoku counts too.
Amateur radio. -> Amateur satellite antennas -> bounce your signal off the Moon.
Many sorts of nature activity. Hiking. Boating -> Kayaking -> white water rafting. Hm, an apiary would be safer.
Visual arts. Drawing. Calligraphy. Painting. -> Painting using pointillism. -> Painting using only dice arranged in a rectangle with the 1 - 6 being the shades of grey.
Something involving food. Brewing. Pastries?
There are small skills. Often related collections. This may be a kind of "collecting" hobby where being able to do it well, is to "have" that in your collection. English regional accents. Juggling (with tricks especially). Dances which seemingly defy gravity or friction. The variety of things people can apparently do with a yoyo. Learning arithmetic or party tricks of that nature, generally. This becomes entertainer's magic easily.

cratermoon · Answer

Learn a musical instrument. Preferably one for which there's a lot of good solo material, but if you really really love playing the triangle, I won't judge.
I was going to say something like woodworking, sewing, knitting, art, but then I realized I could collapse all that into "how about a 'maker' skill?"
Cooking, making beer/wine/cider, those are all great.
Gardening, if you have the space.
Magic. I worked with a PM who was a professional magician in his spare time and I loved hearing about how he practices tricks. We also had a comedian on the team, and I don't mean "that joker always pranking us", I mean a guy who did stand-up part time.