Do you choose your hobby or does your hobby choose you?

 Obviously your hobby is not a sentient being so is incapable of making a choice. However, does something in your makeup predicate you to particular hobbies? 

I used to work for a construction Consultancy company with ambitions to create a Quantity Surveying Team of 200 staff. Unfortunately a recession changed that objective to 'not part of the core objectives'.

Frequently, the choice of who to put on a commission was based on availability together with face fit. Neither optimise the selection for the Client.

I started to develop an Excel application that featured Personal Work History, Competencies Matrix, Roles and Responsibilities, and Resource Management to help indicate and manage the competencies of a person and department, and thereby help with selection of the appropriate individuals for a particular commission. It would also help with Training Needs Analysis and Skills Management.

After I left the company I started to develop that application in a SQL database hosted in Microsoft Azure.

Work and hobbies clearly intertwined.

Psychology, hobbies and wellbeing

I consider that having hobbies helps my wellbeing. I used to spend a lot of a day working or commuting. Even having a pastime such as watching the TV helped me unwind. Often I thought it was better to have the unwind time and go for a shorter period of sleep, before getting up the next day to catch the first train back to work. Hobbies helped even more. Now there is a growing consideration of the importance of wellbeing and the benefits of hobbies. There is a selection of articles below from others more knowledgeable in the field. All with thanks and aploigies for copying it here as links sometimes get broken.

Some extracts from Psychology Today

How Hobbies Impact Your Head and Your Heart
New research explains how hobbies can help you feel happier and younger.
Posted Jun 20, 2017

Srini Pillay M.D.
Debunking Myths of the Mind

Many of us have no time for hobbies. Stretched for time, we feel lucky if we make it to the end of the day without complete exhaustion. With our packed schedules, the last thing we might think of is to add another task to the day, yet dabbling in hobbies may be just the activity we need to enhance our lives.