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<blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5955305" data-attributes="member: 9037">As someone who has off the beaten path hobbies I have found that a lot of the way your co workers judge you depends on how you act not so much what your hobbies are. If you basically look like them and dress like them and you can do the small talk that does not include boring people about your hobbies then most fellow employees are not going to care what you do when you are not at work. Being a gamer and in SF fandom as long as I have I can say that there are members of our hobby who are just weird they lack the normal social skills to get by. I never hid my hobbies from my co workers but I didn't make a big production either and I could talk about the same things they did, when we did things out of work like baseball games and picnics and showers I dressed just like they did. If I was going to a con that weekend and someone asked what I was doing I said that or if I was going to an SCA event I would say that. Most of the time all I got was have fun or I hope the rain does not ruin your event.Sure I sometimes dealt with nasty co workers who made fun of my hobbies but that was because they didn't like me as a person and would have said nasty things no matter what I did. Or they were just mean spirited miserable people who couldn't stand the thought of other people actually enjoying life.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elf Witch, post: 5955305, member: 9037"] As someone who has off the beaten path hobbies I have found that a lot of the way your co workers judge you depends on how you act not so much what your hobbies are. If you basically look like them and dress like them and you can do the small talk that does not include boring people about your hobbies then most fellow employees are not going to care what you do when you are not at work. Being a gamer and in SF fandom as long as I have I can say that there are members of our hobby who are just weird they lack the normal social skills to get by. I never hid my hobbies from my co workers but I didn't make a big production either and I could talk about the same things they did, when we did things out of work like baseball games and picnics and showers I dressed just like they did. If I was going to a con that weekend and someone asked what I was doing I said that or if I was going to an SCA event I would say that. Most of the time all I got was have fun or I hope the rain does not ruin your event. Sure I sometimes dealt with nasty co workers who made fun of my hobbies but that was because they didn't like me as a person and would have said nasty things no matter what I did. Or they were just mean spirited miserable people who couldn't stand the thought of other people actually enjoying life. [/QUOTE]

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