I recently moved to a new city and don’t know anybody here yet.
I want to try out some things and meet new people and avoid sitting at home all day (but sometimes is ok)
My ideas are hiking, volunteering and reading. What would you recommend? Any good ideas?
Great way of learning an area is going for a walk and filling in questions for street complete, it’s an app which let’s you improve open street map. The data isn used in loads of places especially cycling apps where things like road surface are useful.
Sounds boring but it’s actually really interesting
Stretching. Good for flexibility, mobility, and you can combine it with meditation for an added mental health benefit.
I do some research online and watch a few videos for ideas.
Reading, stretching, hiking or just plain walking around the neighborhood or local parks, learning to cook and plan healthy meals…. These are all inexpensive and there is an abundance of free information available online. All of them encourage a healthy lifestyle, which will contribute to to good mental health.
Volunteering is a great idea, will also help you network work wise while looking for a job.
Yeah, I’m already helping on a local farm. But i don’t think I’ll find any leads for a job from the people there (i mostly do tutoring and software engineering)
I’m not sure what would be good other places to volunteer. A museum maybe?
I tend to be kinda superficial with people i don’t know though. I would love to be better at getting to know people and making friends.
You might be right there. And likely you will be put in a more social position. Lots of practice. I’ve definitely become more reclusive since COVID and should heed my own advice. 🧐
Yeah. Even before COVID I was not really a talkative person. But with everybody quarantining, even I felt like I needed more social contact.
Normally I wouldn’t even post that much to reddit or Lemmy. But now I try to do it a bit more. I would like to become better at expressing myself and talking my mind
I like the community here. It feels more personal.
Volunteer tutor for refugees.
Disc golf. Low bar to entry, many free courses.
Martial arts are also a great outlet. Many have forms practice on their school sites.
I make money off survey apps in my free time. I know you’re looking for activities outside of the Internet, but while it’s a grind, I’ve made 5K off survey apps over a couple of years, and haven’t paid for anything on Amazon in three years. I am happy to tell you all about it. I imagine the money would be welcome.
How’s that work? I’m curious myself.
Sorry I missed this comment; there are survey apps for your phone where you can do surveys and they pay you. The best ones are HeyPiggy, Five Surveys,Qmee, and Leger Opinion.
Oh! You mean like you take surveys. My bad. I thought you meant that you do surveys, like surveying the land. Idk why I thought that…
Oh haha. I wish I did!
Teach yourself an instrument. I suggest piano because it’s super accessible. A keyboard can be had fairly cheap off Craigslist.
I know a bit of piano :) But didn’t bring my digital piano with me (too bulky)
I do have a small midi keyboard that I brought with me. But I’m not really familiar enough with making nice sounding songs.
Do people just switch octaves to be able to play full songs? Or are there songs specifically made to play on a small midi controller?
I liked playing around in ableton live. But i suck pretty bad, and I don’t know anybody who knows a bit about it. (Or plays an instrument)
I started learning on a smaller keyboard, but I think it was at least 3 octaves. It has buttons for switching between octave ranges, but most songs (as a beginner anyway), didn’t need the range.
What kind of songs did you learn with? I had a bit of classical training, but those songs very often use the full range of the piano. Or at least have a low bas line and use the higher notes for melody.
Would be nice to learn some pop songs or other well known things which are easy to play on a small keyboard. But I don’t really know if there are any resources with some songs to start.
I never made it too far myself. Started with the Alfred’s teach yourself adult book and then just picked up sheet music for songs I wanted to learn.
My goal was to be the guy at the party who played a song that people sang along to. Got that to happen at family Christmas with Don’t Stop Believin’ and then kind of stopped playing.
Don’t know if you can search by octave requirements or anything, but easier songs and pop songs tend not to use the whole keyboard.
Alfred’s teach yourself adult book
Thanks for the suggestion!
I never remember names of songs or artists, so I find it difficult to find some nice song to play and sing to. I vaguely remember wanting to play rocket man because it would be nice to be able to play and sing at the same time.
Amazing that you managed to play for your family and got people to sing with you, that’s already much further than I ever got.
I have another suggestion; I am trying to teach myself how to make PowerPoint templates. Apparently selling them is lucrative. Maybe learning a skill is up your alley?
