Danny Lectro Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 (edited) Time flies when you're having fun. Ergo, the way to have more time to model is to stop having fun with it. Learn to hate your hobby, and those brief moments will come to feel like days! Edited January 3, 2015 by Danny Lectro
Roadrunner Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 In my own experience, it works like this; as a person ages, the relationship to the physical world also evolves, and the interface with the time/space continuum actually accelerates, leaving the same amount of time, but it just goes by at an accelerated pace, leaving one with what only seems like less time available.
Twokidsnosleep Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Time flies when you're having fun. Ergo, the way to have more time to model is to stop having fun with it. Learn to hate your hobby, and those brief moments will come to feel like days! Isn't that so true with human nature....once you HAVE to do it (ie a job) you learn to hate it fast
StevenGuthmiller Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 You'll have plenty of time in later life Erik. You're still young. Enjoy you're time with your kids. There are ways to spend time with your family & still do a little building though. When my kids were smaller, we used to spend a lot of time in the kitchen in the evenings, so I would do a little work @ the kitchen table. That way the kids could hang out with us, watch TV & still talk about the day while I did a little building. Even now I'll polish on a body while I sit & watch something on the tube with the wife. I have more time now. My kids are 21 & 26 & aren't around as much, but you still have to juggle build & wife time. I remind her on a regular basis that a lot of guys are hanging out with their friends in the bars & such, & at least she knows where I am & what I'm doing. That usually goes a long way with a woman & in general, she's good with my hobby. Steve
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Bend time? Easy. Get a job you hate and marry the wrong woman. You won't have any more modeling time, but every day will seem like eternity.
tbill Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 having little kids chews up time, no two ways about it. it's probably why a lot of us here have gotten back into the hobby in the last few years, kids grown, and now we have time to be at the bench. it's a shift in priorities really. I get your original post, you're fine with doing family things, but a few more hours in a day would be nice to sit and do 'me time'. I bet with a little thought, and a talk with the wife about each of you getting an hour or two to yourselves would be pretty productive, each of you might be able to carve out a few hours a week to focus on some 'me time', as I am sure with two youngsters, an hour or two of quiet time to yourselves would be very welcome.
Harry P. Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Think of it this way. Your kids will only be young once. Before you know it, they'll be grown and on their own. Model cars will still be there when they're gone. Take it from a guy who has been there and done that.
James2 Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 That isn't for you to say. Who are you to tell anyone what they can deserve? Harsh, dude. "I seriously need to find the trick to bend time in my favour. Ever since I found a job, I lost the time to spend with my hobby's. After workinghours, I have to deal with wife and 2 young kids, go to the bathroom, take a shower, make dinner and deal with kids and wife in the evening again. Short after the oldest goes to bed, I watch a movie and have to go to bed, before the whole sharade repeats. I just had a 2 week vacation, so nice, and was able to finish my goal; finish at least one model. Which I finished just a few hours ago, on the last day of my vacation. It all starts monday again. " Seriously? You think what I said is harsh! Maybe I am missing something?
chunkypeanutbutter Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 (edited) "I seriously need to find the trick to bend time in my favour. Ever since I found a job, I lost the time to spend with my hobby's.After workinghours, I have to deal with wife and 2 young kids, go to the bathroom, take a shower, make dinner and deal with kids and wife in the evening again. Short after the oldest goes to bed, I watch a movie and have to go to bed, before the whole sharade repeats. I just had a 2 week vacation, so nice, and was able to finish my goal; finish at least one model. Which I finished just a few hours ago, on the last day of my vacation. It all starts monday again. " Seriously? You think what I said is harsh! Maybe I am missing something? Noooo... What you said is, and I quote: "If this is how you truly see it, you don't deserve to enjoy a Hobby!" Not to be rude, but it's "charade." I do see your other point, though, on how time is harsh. But the "you don't deserve" comment was completely unwarranted. Edited January 3, 2015 by chunkypeanutbutter
Quick GMC Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 I have a one year old. I go to work at 630 in the morning. My build time is typicall from 10 when my wife goes to bed until midnight or so, sometimes one in the morning. I live of 5 hours of sleep. If you want to build that bad you'll make time
SfanGoch Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 "I seriously need to find the trick to bend time in my favour. Ever since I found a job, I lost the time to spend with my hobby's. After workinghours, I have to deal with wife and 2 young kids, go to the bathroom, take a shower, make dinner and deal with kids and wife in the evening again. Short after the oldest goes to bed, I watch a movie and have to go to bed, before the whole sharade repeats. I just had a 2 week vacation, so nice, and was able to finish my goal; finish at least one model. Which I finished just a few hours ago, on the last day of my vacation. It all starts monday again. " Seriously? You think what I said is harsh! Maybe I am missing something? The humor.
cobraman Posted January 3, 2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Think of it this way. Your kids will only be young once. Before you know it, they'll be grown and on their own. Model cars will still be there when they're gone. Take it from a guy who has been there and done that. Truer words were never spoken. Been there myself.
bobthehobbyguy Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 You can't bend time you need to make better use of it. Make a little time each day and clean up parts for a kit. Work to get all of the partsvprepped and sub assemblies ready for paint. If you airbrush you might want to prep a couple of kits ready to offset the time needed for cleanup. Just work at maximizing the time you can devote to your hobby.
BirdWatcher Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Get yourself a dry erase board. Make some goals, even if they seem insignificant. It's all accumulative. 1 Sand tires 2 strip chrome from wheels 3 drill distributor out Try to eliminate some of your items from the list while you "listen" to a movie.
southpier Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 time is the only true commodity. in all seriousness, anyone who thinks multi-tasking, working nights & weekends, and going above + beyond, is going to get them anything more than the 'employee of the month' parking spot is going to be sadly disillusioned after 30 years on the job. take time, make time, today, to enjoy the things you like and the people you love. true happiness will follow. and don't get paint on the dining room table!
Tom Geiger Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 in all seriousness, anyone who thinks multi-tasking, working nights & weekends, and going above + beyond, is going to get them anything more than the 'employee of the month' parking spot is going to be sadly disillusioned after 30 years on the job. Very true. I worked my tail off for a company for 15 years and got involved in a mass layoff. No fault of my own, just happened to have my number come up. My boss was very upset and in my exit interview he said that after all the hard work I had done for this company, that the sad fact was that there were people siting reading newspapers in the building right now. And knowing some of the employees in the company, he was right. Even sadder is coming back to same company as a consultant 15 years later after working for three companies in three different states, and finding that some of those newspaper readers are still there, and even promoted a level or two higher!
StevenGuthmiller Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 time is the only true commodity. in all seriousness, anyone who thinks multi-tasking, working nights & weekends, and going above + beyond, is going to get them anything more than the 'employee of the month' parking spot is going to be sadly disillusioned after 30 years on the job. take time, make time, today, to enjoy the things you like and the people you love. true happiness will follow. and don't get paint on the dining room table! Absolutely True!! I once heard someone who was obviously much smarter than me say, " On your death bed, will you more likely wish you had spent more time at work, or had spent more time with your family?" My wife & I decided many years ago that our children will not get an inheritance. We're spending it now, while we're still young enough to enjoy it! I know far too many people who scrimped & saved & went without their whole lives only to die within weeks of retiring. I'm enjoying my retirement now while I'm able to enjoy it!
Modelbuilder Mark Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 Bend time? Easy. Get a job you hate and marry the wrong woman. You won't have any more modeling time, but every day will seem like eternity. that is funny!
johnbuzzed Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 If this is how you truly see it, you don't deserve to enjoy a Hobby! Keep in mind that Erik's first language is not English. As he did point out, things can get lost in translation and syntax and grammar. Even those of us for whom English is our primary language have our difficulties. I'd like to see you translate your post into Erik's primary language and have it come out exactly how you meant it..
rel14 Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 Live on the alabama- georgia line,,,, if ya jump back and forth,,, ya gain or lose a hour. Like a time warp
James2 Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) Don't get me wrong guys, I love those moments with wifey and kids. I have a 3.75 year old and a 3 month old son. They consume a lot of time and I wouldn't want it any different. The movie watching time, is my quality time with my wife, we both enjoy a movie and that is a moment we have truelly for ourselves. Why wife is not cooking? Because I like it too much and my wife is already running the household. I need to help somewhere. Plus I get to decide what to eat haha. This whole topic wasn't put in a very serious way, more to see how other people are dealing with not enough time Now this makes since! And I under stand what you are saying. Although your fist sentence was "I seriously" Edited January 12, 2015 by James2
The Creative Explorer Posted January 14, 2015 Author Posted January 14, 2015 See, I didn't mean it so bad And what John said; English isn't my first language (it is even my third!). But I do believe myself, that my English skills aren't that bad, I think....hahaha. Well, my prayers have been heard. Soon after I opened this topic, my wife came to the conclusion that speaking to her mom in Arizona every day for more than an hour gave her too much stress with the two kids. So I suggested to revise that schedule and she decided to speak only 3 days per week to her mom and within those 3 days, 2 times will be on a evening. Meaning that when she is talking to her mom. I can model some bit hahaha. Because it will be after the kids are too bed and there is nothing to do in the house no more.
James2 Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 See, I didn't mean it so bad But I do believe myself, that my English skills aren't that bad, I think....hahaha. Either is mine and it's my only language!
Lucas van H Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 I live with my dad. No girlfriend/wife and no kids. Since I'm jobless at the moment and solliciting for a new job, you would say I have enough time to build during the day. Not really, my dad and I are making trips to family that I haven't seen for years, and we're renovating the appartment where we live. My build time is when I sit behind the dining table at night with the TV tuned to Discovery for car programs or something like that
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