Women who face lots of mild forms of harassment, or just one serious form like groping or stalking, may feel obliged to change commuting routes, only go places accompanied, or even move neighbourhoods, change jobs or quit hobbies to avoid further victimisation.
Fill your free time with other hobbies to avoid dwelling on making sales.
At the same time, research tells us that, as people move into their 60s, when it might be wise to prepare for a major transition in life in which health and long-term conditions such as diabetes could become an issue and voluntary work and hobbies more important, many prefer to avoid looking to the future.
Or even if it's just a hobby that burns off enough fat to avoid that heart attack, tubbo.
At the age of fourteen, Bana wanted to leave school to focus full-time on becoming a motor mechanic, but his father convinced him to complete school, advising him to avoid making his hobby a job.
Do your claim losses year after year for the same activity perhaps something the IRS might consider an expensive hobby you're improperly trying to write off? (For more on hobby losses, click here. For how to avoid an IRS audit, click here).
One way to avoid falling into the hobby hole is to show a profit in at least three years out of five; if you do, you're presumed to be running a business, and it's up to the IRS to prove it's a hobby.
May Hobby Lobby fire an employee who uses money from her paycheck to buy an IUD? Refuse to hire women of childbearing age altogether to avoid the possibility that Hobby Lobby wages will buy Plan B? Make employees sign a pledge that they'll spend their wages in accordance with fundamentalist principles?
Learning the hobby first is also a good way to avoid having stacks of leftover stuff if you tend to switch around frequently.
If your life is about that, then try picking up a new hobby or interest to fill in any moments to avoid arguing about beliefs.
