A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit.

Whilst some hobbies strike many people as trivial or boring,

hobbyists have found something compelling and entertaining
 
about them. Much early scientific research was, in effect, a
 
hobby of the wealthy; more recently, Linux began as a student's
 
hobby. A hobby may not be as trivial as it appears at a time

when it has relatively few followers. Thus a British conservatio-

nist recalls that when seen wearing field glasses at a London

station in the 1930s he was asked if he was going to the (horse)
 
races.^{[citation needed]} The anecdote indicates that at the time an
 
interest in nature was not widely perceived as a credible hobby.

Practitioners of that hobby went on to become the germs of the

conservation movement that flourished in Britain from 1965
 
onwards and became a global political movement within a

generation. Conversely, the hobby of aircraft spotting probably
 
originated as part of a serious activity designed to detect
 
arriving waves of enemy aircraft entering English airspace

during World War II.^{[citation needed]} In peacetime it usually

has no such practical or social purpose.

It is easier to turn a Hobby Business into a money making

opportunity because the driver is passion and to some degree

obsession. Turning your passion into a business say for

example in arts and crafts, a home studio is all you need; a

space to be creative. Gift shops, specialty stores, galleries
 
and arts cafes are the best avenues to exhibit and sell artworks,

pottery, woodcraft, sewing craft.

Another example of Hobby Business is a hobby farm.
 
Breeding alpacas is very popular among early retirees as is

the old fashioned hobby of preserving and pickling.

Homemade, specialty foods, such as, puddings, preserves and
 
sauces are taking over in popularity over the more mainstream
 
commercial varieties, because of the trending attitude to buy
 
organic especially if they are homemade produce grown from

the manufacturer's own farm. Scrapbooking is a modern
 
profitable hobby. Known as scrappers, these hobbyists, have

created a new industry from their passion. Scrapbooking

websites are growing and thriving worldwide.