Serious leisure

Parker, S. (1992) Volunteering as serious leisure. Journal of Applied Recreation Research 17(1), 1-11. 

Stebbins, R.A. (1982) Serious leisure A conceptual statement. Pacific Sociological Review 25, 251-272. 

Stebbins, R.A. (1992) Amateurs, Professionals and Serious Leisure. Montreal McGill-Queens University Press. 

With this crucial observation that both leisure and work can inspire devotion among their practitioners, Stebbins suggests considering leisure as a serious activity marked by earnestness, sincerity, importance, and carefulness (2004 50). Yet Stebbins is careful to recognize that the hard work of serious leisure is not necessarily pleasurable rather, it is fulfilling (2004 1), a subtle distinction that resonates with the paradoxical condition of Russian dacha life as simultaneously bothersome and desirable. Stanley... 

In a context in which the appropriation of labor by the state transformed work into something official and public, dacha activities represented an opportunity for ordinary citizens to redirect and reappropriate their own labor to suit their own interests and needs. This orientation resembles the self-directed appreciation of work captured in Stebbins s notions of serious leisure and occupational devotion (2004), although, as we will see, dachniki such as my informants associate this reclamation of one s activities, time, and body from the state as a form of soulfulness. Activities done for oneself are described as for the soul in recognition of the simultaneously physical and psychical satisfaction that comes from working for oneself and under conditions of one s own choosing. 

Advice about answering MCQs is not very different from that for any other examination, whether oral or written. Starting with dress, there is a tendency to match your psychological outlook and actions to the way you are dressed. Some students approach MCQ tests casually, as if this type of examination were not as serious an undertaking as any other. Dress smartly but comfortably and conservatively. Avoid clothes that make you feel too relaxed, such as casual jackets or leisure wear. 

During his first three years in the city, the boy worked in various apothecary shops, and in his leisure moments studied Latin and botany. One of these pharmacies was owned by M. Cheradame, a cousin of the famous chemist, Antoine-Framyois de Fourcroy. When M. Cheradame told Fourcroy about young Vauquelin s fondness for chemistry, Fourcroy immediately engaged the hoy as his assistant and took him home. Four-croy s unmarried sisters treated the young assistant with all gentleness and kindness, and on one occasion he owed his recovery from a serious illness to their motherly care, an act of kindness which he never forgot. 

You need to know yourself well to determine if volunteerism is right for you. If you rated yourself high in volunteer work (category 16 in the IRA exercise in Appendix A, Inventory of Retirement Activities ), Plan C is a possibility for you. Know your personal values well if you seriously consider this choice. The following Volunteer-Leisure Preference Scale may help you in this respect. 

A serious disadvantage of automated data processing is the fact that the researcher is deprived of those hours of leisure, in which he or she plotts results in silence and seclusion on the double-log scale and this opportunity is used to think over whether or not the data evaluated in this way make sense or if they should rather be represented in another fashion. No graphical representation of test data is in the first instance more suitable than that on the double-log scale. This approach shows better and quicker whether it is suitable for the description, or if a simple-log scale would possibly fit better. Furthermore, curves on the double-log scale can easily be converted into straight lines (Y = aX b) or in simple analytical expressions of the form (Y = aX bX ). Of course, a statistical balancing of the coefficients and exponents can be left to the computer afterwards. 

In the short film, the notion that you are watching a documentary is even more critical than in the long film. Consequently, the deployment of journalistic techniques, from camera style to on or off-air narration, is critical. In fact, the first narrative responsibility of the writer is to create at least the illusion that what we are watching are real people at real work or leisure. A candid quality, even the sense of "eavesdropping," should inform the writing and the style of performance. This "spontaneity" immediately establishes veracity and seriousness, upon which the writer-director will draw. What is being captured is not so much an enactment as the real thing. This is the central style of the docudrama. It is the primary and foremost key to the success of the docudrama. 

Serious health problem Restrictions to work and/or leisure activities for several weeks/months. After 3-4 months return to normal health with no permanent disability. 30000... 

The procedure followed in organizing these 1940-41 units was to supply the new organization with a cadre of trained personnel drawn from one of the companies stationed at Edgewood Arsenal or Fort Benning. Fillers were then supplied from the Edgewood replacement center or were shipped from reception centers directly to the unit. Because of the leisurely rate at which chemical units were then being mobilized, unit training presented no serious problem. 

It is inevitable that any chemist who takes his work seriously will during the course of his career assemble for his own use a working collection of books. This may consist of a few quick reference books such as dictionaries, tables of data or standard texts and monographs which he keeps beside him on the bench ready to be consulted as the need arises, or it may be a file of periodicals for which he has taken out a personal subscription and which he may keep at home so that he can look up at leisure the references he has noted down during the course of his work. But however extensive his private collection may be, no cheinist can ignore the vast range of material which exists in outside libraries of all types. 

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