Random note, I bought WTW at $6 then at $7, weighted average of my purchases around $6.50 a share in 2015. Still own it.
“Nothing can stop me, I’m all the way up All the way up I’m all the way up I’m all the way up Nothing can stop me, I’m all the way up”
F*ing A, Oprah.
Oprah = BSD
I would have never guessed that outcome, sometimes better to be lucky than smart.
Here are my hobbies for some ideas:
martial arts
Flying lessons
Learning python (taking me much longer than it should)
Guinea pig on diets (low carb, all meat, veg, fasting etc.)
Shooting (short range & more recently long range - maybe archery down the line)
Hiking - i want to hike part of the Appalachian trial this summer
You could enroll in a cooking class or club (on the weekend I assume given your work schedule).
Work this into your dating ; say third date is back at your place. You find out what her favorite wine and main entree & dessert is in casual conversation in th first couple dates and then make sure its on the menu. If all goes well…
Surprised no one mentioned dancing yet. Salsa and bachata classes. Try it.
I also second yoga. I did it and loved it but didn’t continue with it due to time/laziness. Should get back into it…
reddit is one of my new hobbies formed in 2017. af too.
uhm writing yelp reviews. i want to be a yelp elite by 2018
How long have you been doing that and what are you doing to learn it? I started with some free videos online but now have no time to continue.
I feel like a lot of people are missing the criteria he outlined: he wants a new hobby but he also subconsciously wants it to be something he can bring up on his dates…
so far we have model building, stock investing, reddit, yelp reviewing… might as well take up taxodermy at this rate!
girls can’t relate unless they do it too. or pick a hobby that they are in awe of but can’t do to the same level, then you can appear like an expert.
On one hand, i am truly proud of AF as this is truly a community of analysts who don’t understand women. On the other hand, I am a bit disappointed the married men on this forum have forgotten what made them successful.
I took the introduction to python and python for data science via coursera. my wife and i were nerding out twice a week studying but that has been derailed with the holidays (and lack of motivation if we are honest about it).
Everyone is different. He should identify what kind of girls he likes first, and then pick a typical hobby those kinds of girls would like while also finding more hobbies he likes.
i actually met my wife while yelping, it was great for picking up women 
AF is a bunch of nerds/misogynist - dont ruin the culture!
As for hobbies that can also act as dates; laser tag, bowling, dancing, anything active. I also second the cooking, my wife bought us cooking lessons early on and its a cool date. If i was was in the scene again i would take up salsa dancing as a hobby.
I don’t think the suggestions here are that bad. It’s not like everyone suggested LARPing and sword collecting (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
Side note: I was once talking to someone who was about to come into a bunch of money. Not enough to retire, but several times what he would make in a year. I asked him what he planned to do with it and he told me his dream: to start a year-round Renaissance Fair in his hometown in bumblef@ck. I wonder if that worked out.
Eh, you don’t think NY women are value investors? Like most things (restaurants, real estate, etc), dating here is frequent, liquid, and generally more price efficient than other markets. The women know that some guy worth $10 million+, who is on the way up, and has a stable, non risky lifestyle is the best choice. Interesting hobbies like car racing are novel in the short term, but after 5-10 years, it’s going to be annoying as F if you leave the house for hours every week and spend all your money on tires for your Porsche Turbo. Any woman with a reasonable discount factor would weight this considerably.
Maybe it’s different in smaller markets, but NYC things tend to converge to fair market value.
You raise a lot of good points… I actually am looking for a long term relationship but reflecting on myself, I’m not really long term material… Having taken a unconventional and risky path to get to where I am, dangerous and expensive hobbies, work lots of hours, kid from prior gf… in the last few months, I’ve met with around 40 girls and the only ones really interested weren’t interested in long-term.
I think the hobby gives me a chance to improve myself first and to have something nice to talk about as well.
Btw ohai damn near nailed my ride too, can’t say anymore ha
My mentor in college started a Renaissance Weekend. It worked out pretty well.
Having money?
^pure cynicism - though I like to think AFers were once humans before they sold out for the USD so they can live BSD. you can quote that nerdy.
and hpracing; most large markets are largely efficient, sometimes there is a preference or maturity mismatch that may be impossible to overcome. In your case, 40 over 30 calendar days means you have some valuable attributes but there are some mismatched preferences that can probably never be overcome. Your efforts may be better used elsewhere in those instances. You don’t sound old but also not that young either. Does your kid live with you?
40 over 3-4 months. I agree, I feel like my efforts can be better spent elsewhere, maybe take a break and do a hobby. My boy lives out of state with his mom. Having a kid is a huge deal breaker for many, which i get. I met one girl I really, really liked in person and asked her out, wifey material. We went on 2 dates and after I told her, that was it.