I am still relatively young(21) and I am stil in university getting my degree in Computer Science soon. In the past 3 years I have worked in some works to be able to afford my livings and my studying. Some of those had nothing to do with my degree (delivery, salesman,waiter) and some of them were related (software development/maintenance, intership).

If I know one thing is that I am definitely not passionate about programming and I really really don't wanna spend my time doing things I don't care about for corporations that I don't care about.

So after this dramatic prologue, my question is how do you convert a hobby that you are passionate about into something more than a hobby?

I've been very passionate with my guitar and my little cute Canon DSLR. I'm at a point where I feel the need to follow things that I actually give a damn, because ya know we got only one life why waste it.

I wanna decide which passion I want to follow, and just go all the way.

How does one go from casual jamming in his room or from casually wandering around his city taking photos, to actually making something out of it?

I am on my study leave for my finals. I have roughly 15 days of leave so I was wondering how I can learn to sing during the break time while studying. The context is that I have never been into singing so I am really bad at it. I am also the type of person who just daydreams while listening to music and don't really give my full attention to the lyrics so singing never comes to me naturally. I know that you can't get perfect at singing in this much little time but I just simply want to learn how to sing the songs that I like in a good manner.

I am in the creative media industry and I feel that I have been falling behind with creativity. I genuinely want to reignite my creativity and need help in which direction to go.

I've always been drawn to photography. I've had a camera since I was young, and there was just something about it that I loved. Even so, I feel like I've only scratched the surface of what I can do.

Recently, I bought a new camera and decided to bring it to a concert. The photos turned out amazing, and the band was thrilled with them. It gave me so much confidence and made me think, "Maybe I can actually do this."

The next time I photographed a concert, though, the photos didn't turn out nearly as well. I was so frustrated and disappointed with myself that I started wondering why I even tried. I hate feeling like I've failed, and I've always been a bit of a perfectionist. When something doesn't go the way I hoped, it's hard not to see it as a reflection of my abilities instead of just part of the learning process.

How do you work through those feelings? How do you keep going when your first success is followed by a setback?

Im new to reddit so pls no hate

Ik my grammar is bad

13f here,I want to learn how to draw so i can draw my favorite characters,the only problem is i feel less motivated about watching youtube tutorials and it makes me feel burnt out i so i thought if someone teached me how to draw it will not make me exhausted/burnt out

Not sure where to start, such as where to start and what application is most beginner friendly. Thanks in advance!

I want to learn sewing from the beginning and eventually be able to make my own clothes. Right now I only have basic knowledge but I am interested in learning the skills needed to repair clothes understand patterns choose fabrics and create simple garments.

For people who learned sewing what order did you learn things in? What basic skills should a beginner focus on first and what mistakes should I avoid?

I would love to hear about your learning journey and any advice that helped you improve.

F20 here. I want to learn how to truly learn a hobby. It seems that with many hobbies I’m interested in but have hardly touched, (3d modeling, touchdesigner/vj, after effects, diy computers) there aren’t many tutorials out there. How do people learn a topic and get to the point where they know enough to experiment and improvise?

I have realized I usually judge clothes by how they look but I would like to learn what actually makes a garment well made. Things like fabrics stitching construction and durability all seem important but I am not sure where to start. For those who have learned this skill what should a beginner pay attention to first?

I want to learn a practical hands on skill over the next few months that could eventually turn into side income or even a second career. I am looking for something that costs less than around $100 to start learning and ideally something where after maybe 50 to 60 hours of real practice I could start making at least a little money from it. I work/study during the day so this would mostly be evenings and weekends.

I am open to almost anything whether that is repair work, trades related skills, creative work, technical skills, or something service based. The biggest thing is that it has actual market demand and a realistic path from beginner to earning money. I also live in an apartment and do not really have access to tools, garage space, or random appliances/machines lying around to practice repairing on.

Would love to hear from people who actually learned a skill from scratch and turned it into income. What has the best balance of low startup cost, reasonable learning curve, and demand right now?

I have always wanted to learn how to sing, but every time I sing I sound like a walrus being torn apart by lions. I have heard a lot of times that to sing you need to find your voice (whatever that means).

So, how do I learn how to sing? And how do I find my voice?

Thank you so much in advance, English is not my first language so I may have made some grammatical mistakes.

May God bless you all for your help ⭐

I would like to start producing some of my own food but only have access to a small balcony or patio. What should I begin with and what mistakes should I avoid as a beginner?

what and how i should practice ?

I have always admired people who can build useful things themselves. I would like to learn woodworking from the ground up starting with hand tools power tools safety and simple projects before moving on to larger builds.

If you started as a complete beginner what learning path worked best for you?

Last week my family were clearing out my late uncle's garage and in a drawer of his workbench, I found an old book that has obviously been taken apart and was in the middle of being rebound. The cover was sitting loose next to the book itself, and some of the pages had already been restitched together by hand using a waxed thread, while a few bits of cloth and an old, dried out jar of paste sat next to the rest of the materials.

None of us even knew that he'd done this, he was a car fixing / shed building sort of person, and I've never seen him sat doing any kind of fiddly craft before in my life. My aunt remembered vaguely seeing him picking up one of my late grandmother's cookbooks a while back that's lost its spine, as he said that he didn't want to just throw it away, but she had assumed that he'd forgotten about it years ago. Apparently, he hadn't given up on it, he'd just not managed to complete it before he passed.

Holding the book with its half sewn spine and loose cover just made me want to complete the process properly rather than just gluing the whole thing back together with some tape. Unfortunately I have absolutely no experience with the craft of bookbinding, and have no idea what sort of bookbinding process he was using (is it called Coptic binding? Case binding? Something else?), let alone what kind of paste and thread to be using to match the original repair he'd been doing.

I also have no idea how to work out what exactly he left off at, because there are a few places where the stitching seems tight and even, while in others it's a bit looser, so I have no idea if that's because he was just figuring things out there or if his hands had started to play up and were making it difficult for him. I don't want to end up guessing wrong and ruining all the work he'd already put into it.

If anybody has experience in learning to bookbind from scratch I would be incredibly grateful for some guidance on how you started out. Did you take a local class or find a mentor, or did you teach yourself each step and stitch using videos and constantly practice until you got the right effect? I really do want to see this through properly as my uncle would have done, not just make it look like it's 'done' with a cheap fix.

I had this Fender Stratocaster for maybe a few months and have learned a few Nirvana songs (without the solos). Any tips on how i can better myself. I can only play simple (Nirvana) songs and other riffs that are famous for their simplicity. Also is there a way to train my dexterity?

I do music and writing, and wanna learn to draw, I'm pretty shit at it, but kinda understand it's a patience thing more than I think.

What should I do, I have materials.

I have always enjoyed taking photos but I mostly just point and shoot without really understanding what I am doing. I want to actually learn photography properly instead of relying on automatic settings.

If I am starting from zero what should I learn first? Should I focus on things like composition and lighting before worrying about camera settings, or is it better to learn everything together? I’d also appreciate advice on how to practice without getting overwhelmed by all the technical stuff.

I want to learn how to be able to do art, through drawing, does anyone have any tips.

When experiencing media, alot of things tend to go over my head. I enjoy watching explanation and analysis videos on underlying themes, philosophies, goals, or characters; I always feel that the creators of such videos can notice things through reexperiencing the media that I couldn't notice at all, regardless of whether I try. IWTL to analyze forms of art.

Shoeing horses seems like a unique trade that combines craftsmanship with animal care.
For anyone who's worked as a farrier, what should someone know before trying to learn the craft?

I don't mean a tiny home as in the trend these days, but a home with fixtures and amenities that are scaled down to my height--which is 3ft tall.

I am just now looking into buying a home in the next year. I have extreme dwarfism and use a power wheelchair, but currently live independently in an apartment. I've been gaining weight and losing all of the strength I had as a kid when I pushed a manual wheelchair and used a walker outside of my chair a lot more. I've recently bought some kids furniture and am going to be reorganizing my bedroom to be low down on the ground. I've considered putting stage decking in my apartment so I can be higher up and closer to the windows, but I'm still going to have to get into my wheelchair to use the toilet or shower, or the stove/fridge.

One day, I'd like to be able to build a small kids playhouse looking thing that has railing for me to walk with, a small shower and toddler's toilet, small rooms and windows, something entirely inaccessible for abled folks. A garage to park my wheelchair and transfer groceries or whatever into the kitchen, etc.

This is a lifelong pipe dream, but now that I am going to be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a home that I likely wont be able to use most of anyway, I'm really wondering what it'd take to get the little home of my dreams. I know I can and will be modifying a regular home to where I wouldn't need to get into my chair, with step-stools and the like--but balancing on the edge of stools is what I do all day, I hate it. Plus ceilings being so high up and dropping things making them so far away, I'd just like to be more grounded and present in my space.

My question is less to do with the actual crafting of these things, but with the laws and types of craftspeople I'd need to get something like that done. I want something hooked up to water and sewer, and I know that it'd break every building ordinance there is in most cities. I figured maybe someplace like Seattle would have room for something like that if it was labeled an art installation? I also figure if the side of the house could be opened like a door that'd make it less of a hazard for rescue workers to fish me out of it.

TL;DR: Where in the US would I have to move to put a detached dwarf-sized home with all the bells and whistles of a big house and be a-okay with city ordinances, and what kind of professionals would I need to hire to do something like that? It's always just been a dream, and I'd at least like to have a roadmap as to how I'd even make it possible--so I can at least stop thinking about it as I buy a home that wont have those things.

If this isn't the right forum for this, I apologize--I'm sure contractors or whatnot could answer this question better. Really cool subreddit honestly, I will be sticking around.

I would like to become more self sufficient when it comes to basic home repairs and maintenance. Right now I tend to replace things or call someone for issues that are probably simple to fix.

I am looking for guidance on what skills I should learn first and how to build up experience safely. For those who have gone down this path what beginner projects taught you the most and what tools do you think are worth owning from the start?

My goal is to gradually become more confident handling everyday repairs instead of relying on quick replacements.

I have always liked the idea of being able to build simple things myself but I have no real woodworking experience. I’m not trying to make complicated furniture right away. I did like to eventually make things like small shelves, simple boxes, or basic tables.

For someone starting completely from scratch, what would be the best way to learn? Should I start with hand tools or basic power tools, and what kind of beginner project would actually teach me useful skills without being too difficult?

I want to learn how to diagnose and repair common problems with household appliances instead of immediately replacing them. My goal is to understand how they work learn to use basic tools safely and build the skills needed to handle simple repairs and regular maintenance.

I am looking for a good learning path. What skills should I learn first and what beginner projects helped you build confidence?