I've found myself in a similar boat. Lately making things like soaps, all natural oil blends (which are much better than commercial colognes or perfumes(and I get more comments on how good I or my office smell)). Plus doing things like making tie-dye t-shirts, which isn't hard, but it's something non technical that requires a bit of innovation. Such as making my own dye bins, finding for myself the best ammounts of different things to use. Which applies to both tie-dying and the oils/salts. And I've started making hemp jewelry. Pretty hippy'ish, but, it takes my mind of the daily pressures of my job, and I feel again like I've accomplished something. As now adays, in my job anyway, we've gone from engineering new products and services (playing), to a maintenance mode, which really doesn't leave alot of gratification at the end of the day. Another thing I've taken up is gardening, don't have much of one, but I've got some fairly fancy flowers and greenery, and a bunch of fresh herbs. Its nice having something else to do that's not technology related at the end of the day.
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I've found myself in a similar boat. Lately making things like soaps, all natural oil blends (which are much better than commercial colognes or perfumes(and I get more comments on how good I or my office smell)). Plus doing things like making tie-dye t-shirts, which isn't hard, but it's something non technical that requires a bit of innovation. Such as making my own dye bins, finding for myself the best ammounts of different things to use. Which applies to both tie-dying and the oils/salts. And I've started making hemp jewelry. Pretty hippy'ish, but, it takes my mind of the daily pressures of my job, and I feel again like I've accomplished something. As now adays, in my job anyway, we've gone from engineering new products and services (playing), to a maintenance mode, which really doesn't leave alot of gratification at the end of the day. Another thing I've taken up is gardening, don't have much of one, but I've got some fairly fancy flowers and greenery, and a bunch of fresh herbs. Its nice having something else to do that's not technology related at the end of the day.