When a Hobby Become a Career: What I Chose and Why

What is hobby? A hobby is a regular activity done for enjoyment, naturally during one's leisure time, it is not professionally and not get payed for doing it. Hobbies include gathering stamp and antique item, doing some painting and write lyrics, playing sports, or practicing other enjoyment. Participation in hobbies can inspires attaining important skills in that area. A list of hobbies changes with renewed interests and developing fashions, making it diverse and lengthy.

Hobbies tend to follow trends in society, for example stamp collecting was popular during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as postal systems were the main means of communication, while video games are more popular nowadays following technological advances. The advancing production and technology of the nineteenth century provided workers with more availability in leisure time to engage in hobbies. Because of this, the efforts of people investing in hobbies has increased with time. According to the serious leisure perspective, a hobby is an enduring serious leisure pursuit having no significant professional counterpart and being too poorly remunerated to constitute a livelihood. Hobbyists are distinguished from Amateurs, who do have professional counterparts (e.g., professional actors, scientists, entertainers, athletes) and from specialized career volunteers with their interest in altruistically serving other people. For me my hobby is playing video games and build computer.

I choose this hobby to be my second career was because it can help me to improve coordination because it make me to look to the screen ang type without looking at the keyboard so I can know what spelling that I type wrongly it even more faster then, when I looking at the keyboard and realize that I make spelling mistake when looking back to my screen. It happens because most of the games require players to watch the screen without even looking at the controller because they have to execute the required command in the game without even taking less than a second. This requires high-level hand-eye coordination. It is similar to learning piano because it requires a fluent movement of both hands and eyes. The player whether he is a gamer or a piano player should know when to press the next key. It can be, pressing the fire button to use the gun or the right key to create a great symphony. Hand-eye coordination is required in both hence gaming improves coordination.

Then to be a good gamer it require a good machine and most gamer build their own computer when build a computer it require a lot of focus, when we making a computer we have to make sure the component is in place, for safety we will use magnetic mate to make sure the small screw and component not moving in the middle of the situation if we lost one component it will do make our housing not stable and can damage the item inside because the graphic card weight 1.2 kg, so if it not hold in place it will damage the tip that connect the motherboard to the component, the damage is irreversible so we cannot keep doing mistake so before doing the project we have to make some research to make sure there is no room for mistake because most of the component sold in high price such as processor. Gaming Monitor has a price point RM 1039, so by having failure when building this machine will cause a lot of money to repair it back and some part can not even being repair when stuff happen. It the same time it happy to see a success when finally finish build. For me I like to use the water-cooling system it is because when I see water flow through rod to cool the component it feels refreshing and make me want to work harder. Cooling the component give a lot of benefits when playing because it will make a lot of heat and sometimes the CPU will rise to over 100 degree Celsius and when we not include a cooling component it can damage the motherboard because it need something that can regulate the temperature to the lowest point.

For someone the I adore for being a good gamer is Michael 'shroud' Grzesiek. He is a retired Canadian Counter-Strike: global Offensive player of Polish descent. He is from Toronto, Ontario, but has since relocated to Orange County, California, in the United States. He is currently a Full-Time streamer on Twitch. Mike 'shroud' Grzesiek has been playing since the launch of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. He rose to prominence through the popularity of his twitch stream as well as his talent in the game which he displayed in ESEA-M with Slow Motion and then with Exertus and Manajuma in ESEA Invite. He is mostly known for his lurking and clutching ability, as well as his weapon accuracy. After his time in Manajuma, he was acquired by compLexity Gaming as a stand-in, replacing Todd 'anger' Williams. Upon compLexity being acquired by Cloud9 on August 1st 2014, he was signed as a permanent player like the rest of his teammates. He was the second longest standing member of the team alongside Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert until they were both benched and replaced by William 'RUSH' Wierzba and Tarik 'tarik' Celik in August of 2017. It was announced that he stepped down from the lineup, as he wanted to become a backup player and full-time streamer for Cloud9, although at this point, he had already decided to retire from the game. In April of 2018, he had officially announced his retirement from playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professionally. In addition to this, he decided to leave Cloud9 to explore new opportunities. Then for build computer Linus Gabriel Sebastian. He is a Canadian YouTube personality, presenter, producer, and founder of Linus Media Group. Best known for creating and hosting four YouTube channels: Linus Tech Tips, Techquickie, TechLinked, and Channel Super Fun, these channels have a combined subscriber base of over 13 million users. From 2007 to 2015, he was also a regular presenter of technology videos for the now defunct Canadian computer retailer NCIX. In 2015, Inc. magazine ranked Sebastian 4th in a list of the 'Top 30 Power Players in Tech'. He is also the owner of Floatplane Media. As of February 2019, Linus Tech Tips is ranked the 5th most watched Technology channel on YouTube. In 2014, Tubefilter named the channel as being within the 'top 1% of Google's preferred advertising channels' on YouTube for the technology category.

So, I pick these two hobbies to be my career because love to doing these kinds of thing and I feel comfortable to stay in these areas and It make me more excited when there is more advancement that happen time to time it challenge me to be more flexible,

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