Over the past few decades, people have
enjoyed doing activities with devoting on their tasks whether they are hard to
achieve or easy to handle. So, it has been argued whether people should have
hobbies that are different from their job or similar to it. Some people might
say that people should have hobbies that have a strong
connection with their field in order to do such hobbies easily and meet new
people that have a similar relationship about
with their job, while others might think
differently. However, I am strongly convinced that choosing hobbies which are
far away from their job is more beneficial in terms of being able to get rid of
stress and increasing their social skills. Actually, I have a couple of reasons
to strengthen my idea. I will clearly show and develop them in the next
following paragraphs below.
Firstly, people can eliminate their
stress more easily through enjoying hobbies that have a
less connection with their job. To be specific,
usually, people acquire stress from their workplace, but doing activities that
are related to their job makes non-sense at all in terms of doubling the
pressure that came from their tasks. Therefore, if they choose to enjoy hobbies
that are different from their work, it will be much more beneficial. This is because
they can free themselves from the pressure and then become refreshed when it is
time to go back to their original tasks. It is true that some people might
say that doing such hobbies will be less efficient because it is hard to get
familiar to such hobbies as they are not related to their job. It is not going to not be enjoyable, but unpleasant.
However, doing so will become an experience as it is a new field, but also, they
will be more interested when they get used to such hobbies. To give an example of this, when
I was a high school student, my life was a full of unhappiness. This is because
a competition inside my school was too intense, which means that stress was unavoidable
at that time. There were a lot of tests and quizzes which led me into disastrous
life. However, when I was a freshmen in my school, there was a mid-term test
which I had never experienced before. Not only this, there was a group project
that I had to finish with my friends in my academy school.
These were a trigger for my stress to disturb my high school life. I had no
idea how to deal with the test and the group project together efficiently. When
I asked my dad about this problem, he advised me to do some activities as a
refreshment for my life. So, I decided to read a book as my hobby, but it wasn’t
really helpful in terms of increasing my stress. This is because it was difficult
for me to use more brain other than concentrating on my tasks. Secondly, when I
chose to enjoy video games, it was successful to solve such problems because I could
forget what I had to do. Also, it helped me to more concentrate on my tasks because
I became refreshed thanks to my video games. This shows that it is
better to have hobbies that are different from their job in terms of
eliminating stress and refreshing their mindset.
Secondly, choosing hobbies that have a less connection with their job increases their social
skill. This is because as they meet people who have
various fields, they will have an opportunity to talk with them. Through this,
they will develop their communication skill and also, increase their knowledge about
different kinds of fields compared to their own field. Although some people
might say that it is better to improve their social skill by meeting people who
have about the same field because they can understand a topic better, knowing
different kinds of subjects lets you have a deeper relationship with others.
To give an example of
this, currently, my father is a famous cook in my hometown. It is hard to tell
that he doesn’t have an ability to talk with others who are involved in
different fields compared to his. The reason for this is that he is a member of
a tennis community. Thanks to the community, he can meet different types of
people and has a chance to have a conversation
with them. For example, there was a historian in the community. While my father
was playing tennis, there was a spare time to know each other. Because he was
interested to in
history, he went to the historian to have a
light conversation. However, the ultimate purpose of this conversation for my
father was to increase his knowledge variously. Not only this, he could meet teachers,
scientists and so on, which whose fields are far away from his field. As a result, even though he couldn’t have
deep knowledge about such fields, he could learn, experience, and recognize about
different kinds of fields. So, wherever he goes, thanks to such knowledge, he became can be a
person who can talk whatever the topic is. This clearly shows that having
hobbies that are different from their job increases their social skill in terms
of learning about other fields.