The need to find a hobby

So, after a lovely weekend sipping wine and fist-pumping on the dance floor, I realized two things. #1 – I’m not as cool and hip on the dance floor as I use to be, but then again, maybe I never was, but in my mind, I was always wrecking! #2 – my friends seem to have a laundry list of hobbies that I never knew about. There was a mention of golf, tennis and meal preparation for a community apartment that housed cancer patient’s visiting the city for chemotherapy. I realized, while enjoying a goblet size glass of red sangria that I need to step my hobby game up. Not only for personal satisfaction, but also for the professional growth opportunity.

Many moons ago (well back in college, which was a lot of moons ago) in my haste to find a final elective to fulfill my physical activity requirement, I decided to take golf lessons. It turned out to be a great activity and I enjoyed it immensely. Since moving to the Valley of the Sun, better known as the “state where the sun comes for vacation”, I realized that if there is one activity that could get me a little closer to the C-Suite, it would be golf. It’s a game that’s slow enough – so that I could maintain small talk, which is important if you’re trying to find out what the next big move your department is making, I mean somebody knew about that new K-cup machine, and it could have come from swinging a few rounds of golf. Plus it’s physical enough that I can stay in shape or at least get really toned arms. On the flip side, it can be expensive as hell, I’ve decided that my best course of action will be to join a meetup group. Meetup.com has proved to be one of the best resources to use to connect with other people or to explore an activity that you may have never done on your own.

So far, I’ve narrowed it down to two potential groups, I’m leaning more so toward the group that promotes a happy hour along with a $20 golf lesson, it’s a Timbuktu drive away from my office, but I figure once a week I can get a lesson in, a drink and an appetizer all for $20! Who knows I may be able to sip my way into becoming a semi-excellent golfer, so the next time one of our senior execs comes through the office offering free passes for a few rounds of golf, I won’t slouch under my desk, I’d raise my glass. I mean hand and take ‘em up on that round.

XoXo,

BGW