Does Your Hobby Support Your Life Purpose?
Why Hobbies Are More Than Just a Way to Fill Your Time Especially After Retirement
My grandmother cut up dead chickens for a living.
It wasn’t the only type of employment she engaged in during her lifetime. But it was the job she held the decade before she officially retired from the workforce.
I’m sure she never considered butchering chickens her life purpose. But it helped pay the bills and gave her a little extra spending money.
Grandma also enjoyed the social aspects of her job. Her ability to tell a good joke was well known and what better place to get people laughing than during breaks from a less-than-glamorous work environment?
Cracking jokes made her work tolerable. But what Grandma really looked forward to was her time at home creating things.
Her extra money was spent at garage sales, secondhand stores, and occasionally at bazaars and craft stores.
At these often “out-of-the-way” places, Grandma gathered materials and ideas to support her crafting hobby.
Grandma created dolls, holiday decorations, kitchen decor, pillows, and wall hangings. She sewed, painted, sculpted, carved, glued, stuffed and embroidered. She constantly tried out new techniques she learned through observation and…
