How to hobby

HOW-TO-HOBBY 1.How To Find a Hobby

2.How To Find a Hobby You'll Stick With

3.How To Start a Hobby

4.How To Keep Your Hobby Cost Down

5.How To Cash In On Your Hobby(ies)

6.How To Write About Your Hobby(ies) & Interests

Plus: Free Tips By: Bastos Best

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How to Find a Hobby Hobbies let you explore interests outside of your line of work. They let you be creative and try all kinds of new things. If you're bored with your old hobby, picking a different one can get your creative juices flowing again. Don't forget to take a look at your budget before choosing a new hobby, as some can be expensive. Don't worry, though, you have plenty of options available to you even if your budget is tight.

Method 1: Building on Your Current Interests 1. Look at what interests you. Examine what takes up your spare time, when you have it.

Do you enjoy reading books? Maybe you want to try your hand at writing them. Do you like a cold beer at the end of the day? Maybe your hobby could be trying to brew beer at home. Turn what you already love into a hobby.

2. Think about what you value most. What traits do you prize? Do you value wisdom or courage? Do you feel drawn to people who give back? Do you admire artistic expression? Let those traits guide you when choosing a hobby. For instance, maybe you could volunteer at a library as a hobby because you value education, or maybe you could take up painting because you admire people who can express themselves with art.

3. Examine your skills and personality. Certain hobbies require certain skill sets.

If you don't have a great deal of patience, then maybe hand sewing isn't something you'd enjoy. However, if you love tinkering and building things, maybe you should consider a hobby like working on older cars or building furniture. Play to your strengths.[1] 4. Pay attention to what excites your passion. The way you talk about issues can also reveal your passions and those passions can be developed into a hobby.

Think about the topics you go on endlessly about. Ask your friends and family what you seem to talk about the most. Now, think about what it is about that subject that you enjoy so much and determine how it can be transformed into a hobby. For instance, maybe you are passionate about local politics, and getting involved at a grassroots level could become your hobby.

Method 2: Examining Your Childhood 1. Think back to what you loved as a kid. Did you like to race bikes with your friends?

Were you really into comic books? Did you love to paint or draw? Think about what really got you excited as a kid and what you could spend hours doing.[2] 2. Pick up where you left off. If you rode bikes, try getting a new (adult) bike and exploring your neighborhood.

3. Take a class in what you loved. If you loved drawing, take a class at a local community college or art museum.

4. Look at adult versions of what you loved. That is, if you loved comic books, try attending a comic book convention (com-icon) to find people with similar interests.

Maybe you loved board games as a kid. Check out the wide variety of new board games on the market, which offer options in everything from role-playing to cooperative games.

Method 3: Exploring New Territory for Ideas 1. Visit a craft store. Wander around a craft store to see what hobbies are available. You might find something you never thought about, such as building model airplanes or learning how to work with clay.[3] 2. Visit a hardware store. Like craft stores, hardware stores offer a way to explore different hobbies. Maybe you want to get into woodworking or gardening; the hardware store will have just what you need.

3. Browse your local library. Your library will have how-to books on a variety of topics.

Browse through them to find topics that interest you, which can turn into new hobbies.[4] 4. Budget your time. Your time is precious, and you have a limited supply. Be sure to create space in your day for your new hobby by allocating a few minutes everyday for trying it out.[5] 5. Check out hobby websites. Certain websites are dedicated solely to exploring hobbies, and you can use them to figure out what you'd like to do with your time.[6] 6. Be willing to try more than one hobby. The first one you try might not be the right fit.

Don't be afraid to move on and try something else. You have a right to decide when you're not interested in something.[7] 7. Say "yes." That is, don't be afraid to say "yes" to activities you normally bow out of.

Maybe going to the art museum doesn't sound very exciting to you, but when your friend invites you to go, give it a try anyway. You might find a hobby you never expected to enjoy, such as painting or art restoration.

8. Redefine your definition of self. One thing that may be holding you back from trying something new is you thinking, “I’m not that kind of person.” Maybe you think you're not brave enough or social enough for certain activities. Don't be afraid to step outside those boundaries.

For instance, consider all those crazy hobbies that you've dismissed because you thought you couldn't do them. Maybe you've always wanted to learn the guitar or how to ballroom dance but didn't think you had the talent. Sign up for a class anyway. Maybe you have a knack for it and don't even know it.

9. Tag along with a friend. Your friends already have similar interests and personalities that are compatible with yours, so you might enjoy their hobbies, as well. Ask them to show off their favorite hobbies and give you a taste for what they love to do.

For example, maybe your best friends are really into swing dancing. You can go with them to a lesson, or you can ask for a basic lesson from them before getting your feet wet.

10. Check out your local course catalog. Community colleges offer a wide range of

courses for very little tuition. Read through one, and you may find a class that sparks an interest.

You can request a catalog from most community colleges, though the majority have catalogs online to peruse.

Method 4: Examining Your Budget 1.Note where you spend your money. Take a month to note down where you spend all of your money. You can use a smart-phone app to help with this project, or you can rely mostly on your bank account if you don't use much cash.[8] Separate out what you spend into categories. For instance, you can have categories such as "groceries," "gas," "clothing," "eating out," "entertainment," "rent," "bills" and "fees."

You could also separate your bills into two categories: ones that are absolutely necessary, such as insurance, and ones that you may want to reduce or remove, such as cable and your phone.

2. Create a budget. On a spreadsheet or app, identify what percentage of your money is taken up by necessary items, such as rent and bills. Also, use your last month's spending to see how much you spend on gas and groceries. Determine how much you have leftover for discretionary spending.[9] 3. Decide how much of your budget you want to allocate to hobbies. If you are starting a new hobby, some money must come from other areas. For instance, you might want to cut down on other entertainment or stop eating out as much. Maybe you could spend less at the grocery store. How much you allocate depends on what hobby you choose, as some are more expensive than others.

4. Pick a free or inexpensive hobby if you don't have much wiggle room in your budget.

You have a number of options available to you if you need a cheaper hobby. For instance, you could read or write, take up running, or try gardening or camping.[10]

Tips Before you get involved with your hobby, find a place to work on it and a place to store it, whether indoor or outside. Even outdoors hobbies that need equipment will require storage space; those hockey sticks, soccer balls, boots, bicycles, and tents all need to go somewhere when you're not using them.

Buy used supplies, which is more environmentally friendly and saves you money. You can find some used supplies at thrift stores and online exchanges.

Once you pursue a hobby for any length of time, you'll become better at it. You may reach a point where the hobby can pay for itself. For instance, it could lead to selling art or crafts, coaching other athletes, writing articles, and teaching others, which is a good way to keep costs low.

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How to Find a Hobby You'll Stick With Are you tired of starting something, spending hundreds of dollars on it, and end up leaving it after a few months, only to do the same again for another activity? This section might help you find a hobby that you will stick with, If you follow the following steps.

Steps; 1. Know whether what you want to do is a physical or a mental/creative hobby.

2. Assuming you want something physical, ask yourself what environment do you feel most comfortable in. Unless you love challenging yourself, in which case, what environment is enough of a challenge, and pleases you aesthetically as well.

Say you like water, but you are challenged by the ocean. Try surfing, stick with it, and if you get frustrated, remember that this sport takes long to learn, you are better and like it, it is unlikely that you will ever quit, or be the same person again if you move away from the ocean. (Don't do this if you ever want to go inland, you'll be a depressed wreck!) To avoid initial costs and also learn the sport much quicker, join a surf school, but not those ones catering to tourists, they will take you as far as riding white water, and not farther. . . most people quit before they even rode a real wave in the curl (The part closest to the whitewash but still on the green part.)!

The same principle works for most nature sports, like mountain climbing, windsurfing, etc.

3. If what you want to do is on the creative side, look for clubs and get-togethers, and join them for a few sessions. Some trial and error is needed to find something you like.

4. Never buy into a hobby that you don't have a reasonable feeling that you will continue doing it.

5. f you start something in the trading card range, just buy one or two of the latest decks and find another beginner like you at a club. It sucks to play with a beginners deck and beginners skill against advanced people who have thousands of dollars of cards that they build there technical decks out of. You will get creamed inevitably.

Tips Do not go and buy yourself the latest and greatest equipment, like that $2000 mountain bike when you are going to ride a couple of easy trails. Try to rent something for the first few times.

Don't go renting something for $15+ a day for a week if it costs $200 to buy it. You might as well buy yourself entry level equipment.

Find clubs. Clubs are your key to cheaply find out if a hobby is worth considering or not.

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How to Start a Hobby Have you been wanting to start a new hobby for a while? Have you been in awe at what some people have made, or done as a result of their hobby? Starting one can often be hard, take a lot of work, and can be expensive. Use these simple steps to get you started.

Steps; 1. Before you even think about what you want to do, start saving up. If you start a hobby that cost a lot of money, and are already halfway to your cash goal, things get that much easier.

2. Figure out what you want to do. Try to get your self out there, go to your local workshop, talk with other hobbyist or just try new things.

3. Now that you know what you want to do, ask yourself "Am I ready to spend a lot of time on this, a lot of money, and do I enjoy what I am about to do." If the answer is no to any of these questions, then find something else to do.

4. Plan, draft down ideas, think about it in bed at night, talk to your friends to ideas, and research ideas on the Internet.

5. Probably the most exiting moment of it all, buy any equipment you need, and if your hobby requires it, set up dedicated space just for your hobby.

6. This may sound like a no-brainer, but not a lot of people do it. Read the instruction manual! Or at least the safety warnings. You may learn something that you would never otherwise know.

7. Start your hobby! And keep dedicated to it, try to allocate X amount of time every day, or week or month to spend on it.

8. Never give up, you will run into issues, but you will never get better at your hobby if you don't try to overcome them.

9.When you finish your first project, show off! Brag about it and make sure the world sees it!

10. Start another project, and enjoy doing what you now do best!

Tips Take constructive criticism, your work will only get better that way! If your hobby is photography, or art, try publishing your work online.

Warnings If your hobby has anything to do with woodwork, be sure to have the proper safety gear.

How to Keep Hobby Costs Down Do you love your hobbies but don't have the money to pursue them to the full extent you'd like? It's not a hopeless cause – here are some good ways to keep your spending in check and still have lots of fun in your free time.

Steps; 1. Pursue less costly hobbies. It's a fair bet that writing will cost less than motorcycle racing. Money isn't the only reason to choose or avoid a hobby, but you should take the costs involved into consideration.

Choose hobbies that require time, creativity, ingenuity, or knowledge rather than money or gear. Learn to be resourceful rather than spend money.

Light aircraft flying, designer shopping, car modding and playing the latest video games are all likely to be expensive hobbies. Perhaps saving up for them in the future is a better approach than trying to participate in them now without the money needed to make them enjoyable.

2. Keep ancillary costs down. Gardening isn't a cheap hobby if you decide you need a riding mower and a pickup truck to get it done, or if you change plants as often as you change clothes. In fact, more money is spent on gardening than any other hobby. Instead, enjoy the challenge and the rewards of growing from seed, transplants, and cuttings. Get smaller plants cheaply and grow them into larger ones.

On the other hand, if you have a large area to mow, a riding mower might be worth the investment, especially if it frees up your time to enjoy the gardening as a whole .

3. Stay close to home. If you have to drive for hours to see snow, don't ski. Find something else to do outdoors, such as skating or bicycling.

4. Learn the hobby well before you buy too much gear. You can learn a lot about photography with a $20 secondhand camera and some practice. You can do a lot of astronomy with your own eyes or with the pair of binoculars you already own. Learning the hobby first is also a good way to avoid having stacks of leftover stuff if you tend to switch around frequently.

Hobbies that require large investments in gear such as mountain climbing or hang-gliding should always be tried out using rental gear before you start buying. You might hate them and be left with a lot of depreciating equipment.

Look for used equipment and materials opportunities. Many hobbyists sell their good condition equipment through clubs, in the newspaper, and online.

5. Stick to hobbies and projects that you like. If you enjoy doing something, do more of it using what you already have rather than starting new hobbies or projects frequently.

Sometimes you can use common equipment and build common skills for a single basic

activity while enjoying it in very different contexts. For instance, if you're now a classical violinist, you might enjoy "fiddling" for folk dancers, too.[1] If you're now a wedding, portrait, documentary, or wildlife photographer, you might enjoy sports photography (don't buy a monster lens, just increase the ISO a bit) and, while you're at it, learn how to deal with the jumpiest subjects possible.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't try new things. It does mean that you should stay the course, complete projects, and master the hobbies you have already chosen to pursue before chasing new ones.

6. Consider new purchases carefully. For equipment, choose durable items that will last a long time and give you plenty of use. Assuming you will pursue a hobby for a long time to come, plan for your supplies to last a long time.

7. Maintain your equipment. Once you have good, durable equipment, do what is necessary to keep it in good working order. Often, minor maintenance along the way can prevent major maintenance later on. Whether it means rinsing your swimsuit or oiling your sewing machine, take the time to keep your gear in good shape.

8. Buy only the supplies you know you will use. You can't knit without yarn or quilt without fabric, but that doesn't mean you need to stockpile or hoard yarn. Try to have a project in mind before purchasing supplies.

For some creative pastimes, it is worth keeping some supplies around so that they're available when inspiration strikes. If this is the way you pursue your hobby, gradually build up a reasonable selection of supplies as your budget permits. Then, try to acquire supplies at about the same rate you use them. Keeping your "stash" at a reasonable level will also help make it easy to organize.

Try to use up your supplies or "outgrow" your gear before buying more.

Keep in mind supplies that go out of stock or change with time. For example, paint or fabric patterns might change if you don't get enough at the beginning of your project. In this case, stockpiling is a safeguard of quality rather than hoarding.

9. Get a better price. Buy used if it makes sense to do so. Many people stop pursuing hobbies after a time and sell or discard perfectly good, used equipment and supplies.

Watch for sales and bargains on the items you buy new.

One dollar worth of thrift store thread made a scarf, a toy hammock, and a couple of coasters. Look into getting used gear or supplies, especially your first time out, for costly items. Thrift store yarn or a skein of cheap acrylic will get you a long way to learning knitting or crochet much more cheaply than making your mistakes on fancy yarn. If you have $200 to spend on a bicycle, see if you can get a better used bike for that price than a new one.

If your hobby is seasonal, look for opportunities to get things at the end of their seasons when they are marked down for clearance.

10. Choose hobbies that will save you money, or at least improve your lifestyle at moderate expense. Get into do-it-yourself home improvement. Learn woodworking or

canning. Grow your own food, or some of it. Riding a bike could save you a lot of money on fuel and wear and tear on your car, not to mention the cost of a gym membership.

Choose complementary hobbies. If you love to ride bikes, try learning how to fix them, too. If you already love to cook, canning or other food preservation methods may be a natural next step. One hobby could save you money on the other and extend your skills without needing a lot of new stuff.

11. Choose hobbies that will result in gifts you don't have to buy. Cooking and many crafts (woodworking, painting, crochet, etc.) fall into this category, but don't forget things like teaching, storytelling, and helping others with repairs or improvements.

12. Volunteer your time. It can be incredibly rewarding to help others, and may cost little or nothing. And it soon becomes a very enjoyable hobby.

13. Pace yourself. Set budgets both for money and, if necessary, for your time. Set aside a certain amount of money each week, each month, or each payday. You can use a jar at home, a separate bank account (such as a Christmas Club account), or any bookkeeping strategy you want to keep your hobby money separate. Use this money for supplies, equipment, travel, and any other hobby related expenses, and don't go over it.

14. Keep travel and event costs in check. Not all hobbies require travel, but if yours involves travel or going to events, include these costs in your budget, and keep the number and costs of the events you attend reasonable. You can decide what reasonable is for you.

Figure for travel costs, admission, entry fees, hotels, and any other costs associated with attendance.

Attend only local events and meets, or attend the local meets/shows and one or two big regional ones annually. Or consider attending on alternate years.

15 Practice your hobby on a modest scale. If you do race motorcycles, do you really need more than one? Does it need to be the top of the line, or can it be a dependable, midrange model? Remember that you must maintain it, store it, haul it around, and so on.

16. Go pro. Some hobbyists make professions of their hobbies, or at least make a little extra money. The level where your sales cover your materials and treats comes quite early, the level you can use it as a second job or live on it takes more skill and more work. Self supporting hobbies often allow you to use the best and most expensive materials and tools as those pay for themselves with better sales and better pricing.

Sell your creations. If you make something in the course of your hobby, get good at it and try selling it. Be sure to price it appropriately.

Sell your services. If you've learned how to repair bicycles or cars, tend a garden, paint portraits, or take photographs, see if you can start a business doing that or work for someone else who does.

Teach your hobby. Offer lessons in doing whatever you've gotten good at.

Write about your hobby. Especially if you have gotten into something unusual, write about your hobby and sell your book or the advertisements on your website.

Invent equipment or equipment modifications related to your hobby and sell those.

A pattern for baby shoes.

Invent projects and sell plans or patterns to other hobbyists.

Tips Look for free or cheap local classes in your hobby, or to try new hobbies. You'll meet others who are interested and may find a source of used beginner supplies and equipment from more advanced hobbyists who are moving up.

Find your own balance and your own budget. Most hobbies will cost something. Do what you love, but keep the money in mind as you go.

Use your local public library and your internet connection. You'll learn a lot about your hobby at little or no extra cost.

Warnings Remember that many people go into popular hobbies because they are fun. If you try to make a business of them, you may not earn very much, simply because the supply exceeds the demand. At the very least, don't quit your day job until you're sure you can make a go of it with your hobby.

Remember that turning your well-loved hobby into a successful business could become stressful, even to the point where you lose the joy you once had in your hobby. This can happen because running a business is often complicated and demanding, or simply because it can make you look at the activity as something you're being pushed to do rather than something you want to do.[2]

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How to Cash in on Your Hobbies Have you ever considered turning one of your hobbies into a business? You may be surprised at how virtually any hobby can be converted into profits, and without tremendous overhead or ridiculously high start up costs. What's even better, you aren't required to have a specific product to sell! In fact, you can make your knowledge of your hobby your product.

Steps; 1. Define a niche market. Defining a niche market is important, as it puts you into contact with the consumers who will most likely want whatever it is you’re selling with your hobby business.

For example; if you’re going to sell top quality baking supplies, than you will want to ensure that your advertising targets people who bake, and possibly even professional bakers. In this example, the niche market of the hobby business includes bakers and bakeries- and it would not do you much good to advertise to new parents!

2. Choose your hobby business. How do you pick a particular niche to set up your hobby business? If you want your business to be one in which you will honestly enjoy the time you spend working on it, and one that can fulfill your financial needs, ask yourself the following question: What do I really love? If you don’t pick a subject that you are truly passionate about, you will end up having a difficult time enjoying your work.

Whether you consider yourself a salesperson or not, any businessman must invest in his or her products and services, believe in them - love them - in order to offer them to others in a way that encourages people to purchase them. As the authors of "Hobby for Profit" explain, when setting up a hobby related business, you want to "specialize deep NOT wide".

This means if your hobby is comic books, you'll have a hard time being one of the top listed sites in the search engines for comic books in general, but if you specialize in a specific comic book, released during a specific year, than you would be seen as the expert on the topic, and your site would become the site people would go to for information on this particular comic book!

3. Know that size really does matter. How large of a niche do you want to work with?

This is a vital piece of information to consider when deciding on what you want your hobby business to be..

If you want to turn your antique collecting hobby into a business, you know that there are two ends to the spectrum.

It's important that your niche is neither too large or too small as you will be lost in the sea of big businesses if you define your niche to broadly, and you won't have enough customers to remain in business if you define your niche too narrowly. You'll need to do your research regarding your hobby to find out whether or not there is a market for what you want to do.

Tips Defining your market and figuring out the details of your new hobby business can seem daunting at first, but the time spent on the preliminary decisions is well worth the effort.

Clearly defining your niche is often the difference between a successful business and a failed business. A niche that is too broadly defined would be trying to sell everything that is considered "antique". Too narrow of a niche would be selling only one, very specific item, for example, antique chairs made in the year 1804. If you attempt to operate a hobby business within too large of a niche, you’ll be swallowed by industry giants with far greater resources. On the other hand, if you create too narrow of a niche market, you won’t have very many customers. If you wanted to sell all antique chairs made in Italy, then you’ve created a reasonable niche market within your hobby, and will have a sizable potential customer base. You will be able to position yourself as an expert in the field of Italian antique chairs- which is exactly how you want to approach your hobby business niche!

Join a craft society. They may already have developed a market, possibly with a bigger company and contacts with both suppliers and retailers.

Warnings Starting any business requires bookkeeping. There are also business and tax laws. Talk to your bank, and unless you are confident with your own finances, think of hiring a bookkeeper or accountant

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How to Write About Your Hobbies and Interests The interests and hobbies section of a resume or college application provides a good opportunity to showcase your personality. A well-executed one can even compensate for a lack in experience or education. Although you might think that all resumes are alike, you should always gear your document toward the specific audience who will be reading it, taking into consideration what they want from you as an applicant. This article will discuss how to write about your hobbies and interests for the two audiences for a resume: a college admissions committee and a potential employer.

Writing Help Method 1: Writing for a College Admissions Committee 1. Format your application resume by priority. You likely know the basic content of a resume — education, work experience, skills, awards, and hobbies. However, listing all that information is not enough. You must put thought into the order in which that information is presented on the resume.[1] College admissions committees are far more interested in your grades, work experience, skills and awards than they are in your hobbies and interests .

As such, the hobbies and interests section of your resume should be presented toward the end of your resume. End with it, don’t lead with it.

Prioritize individual activities as well. You can either list your activities chronologically, as you probably did in the “Work Experience” section, or from most to least impressive.

Always remember that resumes are “top-down” documents, meaning you should lead with what you most want the reader to know about you.[2] 2. Use appropriate terminology. Although you may think of tennis or chess a fun hobby, the language you use in your resume should indicate more gravity. Rather than titling your “hobbies and interests” section “Hobbies,” call it “Activities” or “Extracurricular Activities.” By using more formal diction, you subtly give the impression that you exercised dedication and professionalism in practicing these activities, rather than simply goofing around and having a good time. This is what colleges are looking for.

3. Choose a formatting style for listed sections. All of the sections of your resume that include detailed lists should be formatted in the same way. The “Activities” section of your resume should be formatted the same way as the “Work Experience” section. There is no single correct method to use, but you want to make sure that you give yourself room to not simply list your activities, but expand on them in a concise manner.

Do not simply list all of your activities with commas. This suggests that you have nothing to say about what you did other than the fact that you did it. Break each activity into its own bullet point.

Decide whether you will write in full sentences or short phrases. A resume should not be overly long — ideally, it should fit onto a single page. If you find that your resume has too much length, use phrases rather than full sentences.

For example: “Tennis: state champions, 2013, 2014; co-captained varsity team, 2012-14; member of varsity team, 2010-14.

If your resume is not long enough and you need to develop length, you can write that same information out in full sentences: “Tennis: As a member of the varsity team from 2010 to 2014, I helped my team win the state championship in both 2013 and 2014. As co-captain from 2012 to 2014, I provided leadership both on and off the court, leading team workouts during the off-season and keeping teammates accountable to one another.”

4. Demonstrate well-roundedness.[3] College admissions officers don’t expect high school seniors to know specifically what their futures will hold. Although in your essays, you want to demonstrate that you have a plan for your future and lofty goals, colleges know that in reality, student plans often change as they enter coursework and develop their interests in college.

The activities section of your resume is the place to demonstrate that you don’t have a one-track mind. You have a variety of interests that can be developed over your four years in college.

If possible, present an array of activities that demonstrate an engaged, curious mind: athletics, volunteerism, academic teams, interest in both the humanities (speech team) and STEM areas (Mathletes), etc.

The more well-rounded you seem, the more appealing you will be to a committee that is trying to assess how you will develop over the next four years.

5. Set yourself apart from the pack.[4] This may seem to contradict the previous step, but you don’t want to present yourself as so well-rounded that you’re indistinguishable from all the other applicants. Consider which activity you have engaged in, that most sets you apart from the rest of the applicant pool.

Demonstrate a high level of interest in at least one of your activities. If you were a team captain, elected official or an otherwise engaged member of a group, you need to highlight that as well as possible.

Describe the leadership qualities you may have developed through this activity: “As Key Club president, I chaired weekly meetings, delegated club responsibilities into committees, expanded our presence by recruited peers into volunteerism and oversaw member training before sending volunteers out into the community.”

Explain what peripheral qualities you developed: “Over my four years in the Key Club, I developed an abiding dedication to undeserved populations in local communities.”

6. Choose language carefully to dress up your activities. Much of this advice so far has assumed that you have a wide variety of impressive activities that can be easily listed on your resume. Unfortunately, this is not the case for many college applicants. While you should never fabricate activities for your resume, you can make what few activities you have seem more impressive by choosing your language carefully.

Use the active voice throughout every document you submit in the application process.

[5] The passive voice suggests that you passively received skills or qualities from your life experiences, whereas the active voice demonstrates your engagement: you earned those skills.

Note the difference between “Being on the football team taught me the importance of being a team player” and “I strengthened the team’s resolve and success by stressing to individual players the importance of group cohesion to the achievement of our goals.”

Take credit wherever possible, even if you weren’t in leadership positions.

Even if you don’t think you got a lot out of an activity, think about what skills and qualities you could have developed. For example —you might have been an awful cheerleader, but you can still say “I devoted myself to grueling practices daily throughout the season and developed an effective time-management system, through which I balanced schoolwork and cheering while dedicating myself fully to both.”

Even if you’re not going to make the collegiate cheer squad, you’ve still demonstrated that you can manage your time — something you learned from cheer-leading.

Method 2: Writing for a Potential Employer 1. Decide whether or not a “Hobbies and Interests” section is appropriate for this job.

Depending on the application conventions in the industry you’re applying in, it may be inappropriate to include your hobbies on your resume at all. The potential employer may find it irrelevant and you don’t want that feeling to be attached to your application.[6] Research the corporate culture of the company you’re applying to. Some companies encourage employees to bring their interests into the creative workplace, for example, Google explicitly cultivates an “open culture” workplace where hobbies are welcomed.

[7] A hobbies section would be very appropriate for a Google application.

However, if you’re applying for a position at an accounting firm, the corporate culture may not be as welcoming of your hobbies. Leave them off that resume.

2. Be brief. Whereas a college admissions officer is looking to get a sense of how you might develop over the course of your undergraduate career, a potential employer wants to know, as concisely as possible, whether you would fit into the workplace or not. Don’t dwell on how you feel at one with nature when you go biking every morning if you're applying for a job with a consulting firm. Simply say that you bike regularly and participate in races.

3. Choose the interests you include carefully.[8] Don’t list an interest if you’re not actually passionate about it — if it comes up in an interview, your lack of passion and knowledge will give you away as a resume passer.

Choose interests that not only mean a lot to you, but also demonstrate the kind of person you are.

For example, “reading” is a fairly generic activity that doesn’t reveal that much about you. However, running marathons suggests that you possess a high level of dedication and that you can overcome obstacles.

"Listening to music" doesn't tell your employee anything about you, but "I have practiced classical piano for 17 years" tells them a lot.

"Volunteering" tells the employer something about you, but it's not as detailed as it could be. Say, instead, that you've volunteered weekly at the same soup kitchen for three years, or that you bring your expertise from your state champion high school football team to bear when volunteering as a coach for community football league.

4. Connect your interests to the job.[9] Wherever possible, demonstrate how the skills and qualities you develop through your hobbies make you a better candidate for the position for which you’re applying. For example, a consulting firm may not care about what how biking up a mountain brings you closer to nature, but they will want to know that you have participated in several large-scale races that required dedication and grit in training, or that you suffered a serious injury that at some point threatened to derail your hobby, but that you are not fazed by obstacles, and you worked through it.

Tips Be careful about listing hobbies and interests indicative of thrill-seeking and risk-taking behaviors, as these qualities may work against you with certain employers.

Avoid sounding overly committed to your hobbies and interests, as this could indicate to potential employers that your personal interests may come before your career. For example, "I play chess every chance I get, as it is my goal to travel the country as a fulltime competitor," could be geared for resume writing by rewording it as, "I enjoy the chess club because it stimulates my creative problem solving skills and opens my mind to new ways of thinking outside the box."

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