Geek or hobbiest? [Archive]

g-dogg

01-29-2005, 12:41 AM

Alot of people join these forms some are just plain geeks and are proud of it(not saying its bad or anything), some are just hobbiest, what are u? please vote. As for me i am just a hobbiest, i built one pc, and it was really cool and so much fun but dont feel like building another one for a while.

g-dogg

spyder003

01-29-2005, 12:44 AM

Self proclaimed geek. :cool:

bailey

01-29-2005, 12:54 AM

not sure which I would be called.
I do it for the pure enjoyment of it
also learning more all the time.
being able to make money from something I enjoy doing.

never in my lifetime have I ever had to pay somebody else to fix something for me, a big savings there alone.
if there is something I don't know how to fix, I go to school to learn how, then buy all the tools and equipment to do it.
then make money doing it for other people.

maybe that makes me a geek.

I also love to teach others how to fix things for themselves too.

colecifer

01-29-2005, 12:59 AM

Definite geek and i am not asahmed. I AM GEEK HEAR ME ROAR.

sataraid0

01-29-2005, 01:18 AM

Definitly geek, built 4 now just for the pure pleasure of it. Gave a couple away to family, but really enjoyed building them.

Am presently fixing to install a water cooling system. We will see how well that works?

.......................Lotsa fun.............Sterling :D

roomwithamoose

01-29-2005, 03:11 AM

I'd have to say that I'm a healthy combonation of both. I know a lot more than the average user, but I still have plenty to learn. I really enjoy knowing how a computer works, and how to fix and build them. I too also like to help people. I built my sister and brother-in-law a computer for Christmas and I'm working on my brother's computer now. Well, what exactly defines a geek? I think I'm a geek when it comes to everything, I just like to know how things work. Yeah, I'm a geek!

netnamakan

01-29-2005, 03:17 AM

really tough to say, I would have to fit in between... hmm but I do spend alot of time online.. lol not sure :rolleyes:

namakan

HAL9000

01-29-2005, 08:44 AM

No question... geek

Confused

01-29-2005, 09:09 AM

Hobbyist.

I get a lot more pleasure out of using a PC as a tool than building and tinkering with one.

I'm glad I can build my own and for family, but it isn't something I look forward to.
Chas

rjfvillarosa

01-29-2005, 09:14 AM

shadowbreaker513

01-29-2005, 09:25 AM

As taken from the Bible : "And He said: The geek shall inherit the Earth"

(see, chance one letter and it becomes much better)

raftero

01-29-2005, 09:42 AM

i voted hobbiest because i know so little relitive to many real geeks, however i enjoy building and tinkering more than using the computer. i have built 4 for myself and wife, gave some away to kids and am itching to build another, the only thing that stops me is justifying the expence. i don't work on or build for profit because i don't want or need the trouble of working for the public.

ghost2003

01-29-2005, 10:02 AM

<----geek

diver203_98

01-29-2005, 10:20 AM

Geek for sure.

WhatsThisBoxFor?

01-29-2005, 10:28 AM

Without a doubt - geek.

Strider

01-29-2005, 10:45 AM

Geek - for I even bought from http://www.thinkgeek.com before. :D

For me building computers has been educational, inspiratational, and down right addicting in a good way. Going to websites such as this one takes my mind off my everyday problems and learning about the latest technology helps in building/repairing computers. So I'm a Geek but could also be consider a hobbiest for many of the same traits of a Geek can be carried over to a Hobbiest. I look back now and wish I was a Geek in High School (even though it wasn't seen as "Cool" or whatever you call it nowadays) for I would have been better off today than I'm now. One, I would probably have a job in the field that I truely love and Two, I would have found what I was looking for. :rolleyes:

aym

01-29-2005, 10:51 AM

Geek, and pround of it. I've tried almost everything related to computers: building PCs, programming, networking, creating and running websites...

foolishone

01-29-2005, 12:26 PM

I would have to agree with both aym_7 and roomwithamoose, have tried everything, and still learning, I am a sponge for information.

^fo

Cricket

01-29-2005, 01:05 PM

I consider myself a hobbyist instead of a geek because I have other interests besides computers...I don't live and breathe computers.

:) Cricket

TeenPcknowit

01-29-2005, 01:13 PM

GEEK! Lan party for my birthday, 24 case of bawls gurana. Never had girlfriend. Working towards A+ Cert. so I can get a job on the geek squad when i'm 16...at best buy... Hey it's better than no job. Here is my Geek resume:
4 pcs built.
1 Hard drive, 2 modems, sound card, and graphics card scattered across my room.
Box of start up disks.
Wrote a few programs in Fortran with Batch assistance.
Worked as an electrical systems analyst from 10-15 doing cad design.
Weight: 105 pounds....

I think I make my point :-p.

digitalfreedom64

01-29-2005, 01:23 PM

Going once, Going twice.................GEEK IT IS!!!!!!!!!!

lil Jimmie

01-29-2005, 01:45 PM

I don't fall into either, but I will have to lean towards hobbyists cause I have many other interests as well. I have built somewhere around 40 computers in the past 4-5 years. I could get a job as a network admin if it was something I really wanted to do but I still love building hotrods.

Cricket

01-29-2005, 02:11 PM

but I still love building hotrods.Gotta do what you love :D.

I thought about working in the tech field a few years ago, but I don't think I would be happy...I don't want to have to think about that stuff 24/7. Besides I'm happy with what I do for a living already. Has nothing to do with computers (but we do use them for work...they're a tool that makes our job easier).

:) Cricket

aym

01-29-2005, 02:16 PM

I consider myself a hobbyist instead of a geek because I have other interests besides computers...I don't live and breathe computers.

:) Cricket

Hehe, being a geek, AFAIK, doesn't mean I don't have a life outside computers :)

spyder003

01-29-2005, 02:30 PM

Hehe, being a geek, AFAIK, doesn't mean I don't have a life outside computers :)

No kidding, I have more hobbies than I do time. Computers just happen to fall towards the top.

flanzig1

01-29-2005, 02:56 PM

I would say I'm a hobbiest with geek tendencies. I use the PC building as a learning tool since the field I work in have only started to use PCs for computing power in the last couple of years(medical imaging equipment).

Force Flow

01-29-2005, 05:55 PM

My main interests lay within the relm of technology, but I still have a myrad of interests outside of that. I consider myself a well-rounded geek :p

Cricket

01-29-2005, 06:15 PM

Let me ask this...what are your definitions of:

A Geek

A Hobbyist

Just asking because I may not have a clear idea about either.

:) Cricket

TeenPcknowit

01-29-2005, 10:25 PM

Let me ask this...what are your definitions of:

A Geek

A Hobbyist

Just asking because I may not have a clear idea about either.

:) Cricket

A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.

^
www.dictionary.com
V

Hobbyist:
An activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure.

FLG

01-29-2005, 10:49 PM

hmm ill just call myself a "geekobbiest" :D

jamesrpm

01-29-2005, 11:06 PM

Electricity is a obsession , I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it.

Tin

01-29-2005, 11:21 PM

hobbyist. i do many other things besides play with computers. rollerblading, fishing, tinkering with cars...all kinda stuff.

glc

01-29-2005, 11:52 PM

Neither. I'm a professional.

g-dogg

01-30-2005, 01:52 AM

digitalfreedom64

01-30-2005, 02:00 AM

Neither. I'm a professional.
What i'm hoping to be someday. For now I would say i'm somewhere in the mix of the three.

g-dogg

01-30-2005, 02:02 AM

Electricity is a obsession , I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it.

lol :D

aym

01-30-2005, 10:09 AM

A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.

^
www.dictionary.com
V

Hobbyist:
An activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure.

Well, there are many definitions for geek, and the meaning of the word changed over the years, my definition: a person who's obsessed with technology and computers, but not necessarily socially inept, a nerd is a socially inept geek.

IMO of course...

Force Flow

01-30-2005, 05:23 PM

That's the definition I'm familiar with.

bailey

01-30-2005, 05:29 PM

define socially inept please

Cricket

01-31-2005, 08:53 AM

I don't think I'm socially inept...I just don't like people.

:) Cricket

sataraid0

01-31-2005, 10:00 AM

Cricket,

Awwww, come on, if ya didn't like people ya wouldn't be here helpin em??

..................................Sterling :)

Force Flow

01-31-2005, 10:10 AM

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=inept

Just apply it to social situations.

Redfallon

01-31-2005, 10:14 AM

I don't think I'm socially inept...I just don't like people.

heh heh, I hear that! I had to vote myself hobbiest, as I am perhaps the *worst* math person in the world, and I think that precludes me from "geek" status.

bailey

01-31-2005, 10:15 AM

that certenly is not me, I just don't like crowds, and people that don't understand me.

Rebel_526

01-31-2005, 11:07 AM

Geek? No, I don't think so. But definately more than just a hobbiest ;)

kid652

01-31-2005, 11:32 AM

Alpha Nerd
Ah, yes, one of the higer rankings of nerd in our group. This is also because i have maxed ou the geek scale because i have no girlfriend.-Go figure, i scare them all away

HellFish

01-31-2005, 11:45 AM

Im with glc, I consider myself a professional.

I live an breath computers and technology, but you wouldnt know it from looking at me. I dont fit the stereotypical "computer geek" formula, but I can hang with the best of them.

Moose on the Loose

01-31-2005, 12:57 PM

I get drunk a lot so I'm cool!

Cricket

01-31-2005, 01:38 PM

I get drunk a lot so I'm cool!What's so cool about getting drunk?

:) Cricket

Punked Out Comp

01-31-2005, 01:53 PM

I dont consider myself a geek, I have other interests also.
I think the best definition of a geek is if someone can just look at you and know that your one. I dont think Ive ever been called a geek once. I defenitly am not obsessed with computers, although I do like them alot, but I think there's more to being a geek than just liking computers.

Moose on the Loose

01-31-2005, 02:01 PM

What's so cool about getting drunk?

:) Cricket

Couldn't find anything more stupid to reply with :(

TeenPcknowit

01-31-2005, 08:21 PM

I call my friend a nerd but he refuses, and suggests he is cool because he knows the high elvish dialect.....:-p no joke.

Cricket

01-31-2005, 08:27 PM

I call my friend a nerd but he refuses, and suggests he is cool because he knows the high elvish dialect...Doesn't that make him a dork instead?

:) Cricket

colecifer

01-31-2005, 08:41 PM

I geuss i should explain my geekiness. I said geek because i'm into more then just computers. I love the orginal star trek and all its goodness and i love a good sci-fi book or a good and/or terrible sci-fi movie, doesn't matter. If i had been alive when star wars first came out i'm sure i would have been a big star wars geek.

TeenPcknowit

01-31-2005, 11:14 PM

Doesn't that make him a dork instead?

:) Cricket

I think nerd refers to addiction to media, or movies. High elvish is a language created by tolkein...the Lord of the Rings creator...:-/

HellFish

01-31-2005, 11:53 PM

There was a SNL skit about this. A gameshow one where contestants had to guess whether a guy was a geek, dweeb, or spazz. LOL.

bigandy

02-01-2005, 12:09 AM

I'm a hobbiest.

scomac

02-01-2005, 02:52 PM

I'm kind of in the middle also when it comes to defining myself. I am a hobbiest when it comes down to computers are not what I do in my 'day' job. If you look outside my regular work environment when I'm 'off', I would consider myself a 'geek', because I just love tearing my computer apart and learning as much as I can about computers, internet, security, networking, etc...

Anyway, that's how I see myself. If you ask my wife, she'd definitely call me a 'geek'. Sometimes she even calls me 'nerdboy'.

Scomac

Cricket

02-01-2005, 03:31 PM

Cricket, Awwww, come on, if ya didn't like people ya wouldn't be here helpin em?? I don't mind helping the people here because I'm not realing dealing with them "in real time" or "in real life". I get enough grief from dealing with my co-workers all day long...and then the drive home after work...ugh...

:) Cricket

fudtone

02-01-2005, 04:13 PM

Geek I supose. I could also go Pro because I get paid. But I prefer to do it because I like it rather than because it pays. 16 hours a day stairing at a tube must make me a geek but I do have kids and a wife ect...Star Track sucks btw

colecifer

02-01-2005, 04:14 PM

i'd have to agree fudtone, star track could never quite match star trek.

fudtone

02-01-2005, 04:18 PM

i'd have to agree fudtone, star track could never quite match star trek.

LOL I have seen it a thousand times I swear I just can't spell...

doctorgonzo

02-01-2005, 04:56 PM

Depending on the definitions, I could be any of those things. I would be closest to "professional" because it's my job. I would consider myself to be a geek, but not a tech geek, because I don't need the latest and greatest, I don't have a lot of electronic toys, and I don't feel like getting them. Heck, I don't even have a cell phone. I like fiddling around with computers so I guess that would make me a hobbiest, but hobbiest and professional don't seem to work together.