I'm currently (and for the last 12 years or so) on disability, due to various issues. However, now that I am finally starting to get somewhere with support needs, and have a stable permanent home, I am looking at returning to education.

Given I struggle with learning, I am starting with a variety of free courses with OpenLearn in order to try to establish some sort of way that I can learn effectively. I dropped out of college three times and did not do well in school because there was simply not the support available, and still isn't now that I am older, but with these courses they are generally fairly short, I can study at my own pace with no time limit (I will set myself suitable goals to see how I get on), and I am hoping to eventually have them lead on to more advanced courses.

I have taught myself a lot of stuff over the years (primarily to do with Office, etc), all of which is stuff to help me develop my created universe. There is a lot of extensive work and effort put into them, so I am hoping that I might find some courses once I am ready to move to other things to build on some of the stuff I already know or work with.

I have in the past done various lower/mid management roles, but never had the qualifications, it was always through simply my work ethic.

I have tried schedules, and alarms, and all variety of things, but never seem to get anywhere with them, but I am currently being assessed for a social worker, and if that is successful then they would be able to nudge me each time they visit, or each week, to just remind me to do some of the studying, and hopefully I can just get into the routine of doing a few hours or so a week, and build up as I go.

I managed to create a budgeting workbook to manage my finances in 2023, and now I am half way through the 2024 one and have not fallen out of that, but I do love spreadsheets as it is what my created universe is largely based on too. But at least it is good that I have managed to stick with that when most other things seem to not last long.

I am hoping to eventually find some sort of work I can do from home, working for a charity or something like that.

I have very few hobbies, there are only two that I really indulge much in.

One is Minecraft which I only discovered about 8-9 months ago, but I already spend significant amounts of time on it. I don't "play" it, in that I only use it is Peaceful and Creative mode, but I use it as a worldbuilding tool, where I am building my own little country, and building a Wiki round it about all the characters, and such.

My other, primary hobby, I have been doing since I was eight years old. It is also a worldbuilding project, but is a large and complex interstellar civilisation project. It's been going for more than three decades, I work on it daily, and it is primarily composed of thousands of spreadsheets, though I am currently rebuilding a Wiki for it, and also vastly expanding on it (as the last Wiki was about 10 years ago, and my universe has expended considerably since then).

Anyway, I may discuss them elsewhere, but I was just wondering what sort of hobbies others have?