In Antrim, Terry Madill's study is littered with memorabilia of his hobby, the Titanic.
Mr. Munser was still working out how to turn his hobby into a job.
When Cunningham quit his day job for his hobby, this all seemed a little crazy.
M. personal computer and then the Mac were born, computers became his hobby.
With more free time to devote to his long-standing interest in genealogy, MacEntee explored ways he could monetize his hobby.
Only after years as a luckless businessman in Kentucky and Ohio did Audubon start to peddle the drawings that were his hobby.
Mandel claims that the isolation demanded by his hobby--most nights, it's just him and the universe--is one of the best things about astronomy.
His parents often gave him gifts that were useful for his hobby: after he unlocked the iPhone, they bought him a more expensive one.
Dave recently left the Army, and his hobby has now turned into the day job - he has just been offered a position with an aviation company.
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So consumed by his hobby is he that early in his 18-year marriage to former freelance science writer Carol Foote, the couple decided that Mandel needed an agreement restricting his stargazing time.
Dan Baker, who by day works a loss prevention expert for Sears Holdings in Dallas, has spent a chunk of his free time indulging his hobby of tracking weather facts across the U.S. since 1998.
In "Eternal Sunshine, " Mr. Kaufman rides his hobby horses -- whimsical surrealism, acrobatic or elastic time, science or psychology reshaped by blithe fantasy -- to a photo finish in which almost everything is worked out elegantly.
Carmel and go back to live with his mother in the old house in Tel Ilan, to live off the rental income from the two apartments in Haifa that he owned, and to devote himself to his hobby, building model airplanes.
He played the publicity game with aplomb, convincing interviewers that he had been in rather more fistfights than he had, and that his hobby was knife-throwing. (It was painting.) He bought a horse farm in Vermont and a mansion in Bel-Air.
Dan Baker, who by day works a loss prevention expert for Sears Holdings (nasdaq: SHLD - news - people ) in Dallas, has spent a chunk of his free time indulging his hobby of tracking weather facts across the U.S. since 1998.
Avid ocean fisherman Anthony Hsieh has never had a problem laying out big money to finance his favorite hobby.
He began collecting horse-drawn vehicles shortly thereafter, offering trips by coach and carriage as a way to underwrite his costly hobby.
Texas Instruments when Jack made TI aware of his private hobby did not want to know as they were making millions out of manufacturing valves.
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He began selling his work on Craigslist and demand grew steadily to the point where Preston wondered how he could transform his weekend hobby into a full-time job.
Heller says he needs only two hours a week for investing--all he can spare because he has turned his photography hobby into a business, traveling all over the world to shoot photos for tour company brochures.
Green and his family own Hobby Lobby, a chain of arts-and-crafts stores.
But if he treats his pastime as a hobby, two bad things happen.
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Chris has also founded 3DRobotics, a robotic manufacturing company that began as a GeekDad hobby with his children.
That collector is Michael Mattis, 44, a former Los Alamos labs physicist who has turned his photo-collecting hobby into a full-time venture.
It was later, on a trip to Chicago, that Kurt realized modeling was more than just a summer hobby for his impossibly tall daughter.
Arriving as an undocumented 15-year-old, Mr. Alvarez, 44, is now a naturalized citizen who has gradually transformed his family's hobby into a thriving business.
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