KATRIONA WILSON IS A MASSIVE QUITTER

Tonight I decided to write about being a quitter. Then I got distracted by a TV programme and was about to shut down my laptop and then realised 'Wait a minute? Am I quitting writing about quitting???' I recognised the irony here, had a little chuckle to myself and started to write. Might not finish this one though. Like I said, I a massive quitter. I have quit 2 uni courses (one course was quit 3 months in, the other was quit 2 months into 4th year.) I have quit countless jobs (but read my crap job post and you will understand why!) As soon as shit gets real and I dont like it any more, I quit. I don't have any hobbies. THERE I'VE SAID IT!!! I work endlessly, even on days off I am sitting in front of my laptop doing bits and pieces of work. When I am not working I am either trying to be productive by writing (which is kind of like work), going on driving lessons or I am sitting on the sofa watching TV and eating crisps. None of those count as hobbies. I don't know if it's because I am an extreme workaholic, or if it's just that actually grown ups don't really do hobbies anyway, but I remember the good old days when I used to have a different club to go to every night and actually learned and developed new skills on a weekly basis. I went to LOADS of clubs as a child.1. Gymnastics2. Dancing3. Youth Theatre4. Athletics5. Swimming6. Keyboard Lessons7. Creative writing classes8. Bird watching (Yes, really... I am surprisingly good at identifying birds, get over it)I'm sure there were others. But I have quit trying to remember them. But for each and every one of those hobbies, there was, at some stage 'the quitting'. Where you had to go to your mum and say you didnt want to do it any more, you didn't like it, it was boring, your friends had all quit etc etc. My mum was always fine about my quitting, except keyboard lessons. I think she was pretty annoyed about the keyboard lessons. To be honest, I am pretty annoyed that she let me quit keyboard lessons. Imagine if I could play the keyboard? I would be, like, doubly more employable and interesting than I am right now. Plus, when I went into a room with a keyboard (which happens to me more often than you might think) I could actually play it instead of looking longingly at it, then bashing out the theme tune to 'Rugrats' which, nowadays, impresses nobody. (Back in the day it was super cool. Oh why can't it still be the 90s!)The only hobby I actually stuck at was drama. Which then became my degree. Which has now become my job. Somewhere along the way it definitely stopped being a hobby. In fact, it quite emphatically stopped being a hobby as I was very busy trying to prove to people that it could in fact be a career, not just something that I do for fun. As a grown up, I have dabbled in hobbies. At university I joined a tap class. I even got to be in a tap show! Amazing right? But then I quit. A few years ago I joined a contemporary dance class. It was marked level 1 beginners and I thought it would be full of actual beginners. It was not. It was full of people who could actually dance, and look graceful. I could do neither and started to feel a bit like I did in high school PE, when nobody wanted me on their team or wanted to go my partner. I pulled a muscle in my leg (which hurt for approx a year by the way!) and contemplated buying a sports bra. Eventually, contemporary dance had to be quit. There was no way I could continue to feel like a dick on a weekly basis AND wear ugly underwear AND pay money for it. QUIT.As stated above, driving lessons are not a hobby. But, they are things that are very easily quittable. I did my first batch of driving lessons about 2 years ago. I did around 20 lessons, and was pretty rubbish. I started to feel that I was being scammed- I went out for one hour a week, stalled a car a few times, drove through give ways, made my instructor angry and basically felt like a complete buffoon for 60 long, painful minutes. THEN PAID MONEY TO THE PERPETRATOR OF THE BUFFOONERY (It was totally the instructors fault you understand...) So of course, I quit. I have now re-started driving lessons and the following words actually came out of my mouth a few weeks ago whilst making a tit of a turn in the road. 'God I just hate being crap at stuff! Normally if I'm crap at something I just dont do it. But I kind of have to do this.' Now, first of all, OH MY GOD. My instructor must now think I am sort of egotistical nutjob. But also, why couldnt I have applied this same ethos to keyboard lessons? Or contemporary dance? Why is being able to drive a more valuable skill than being able to do a graceful roll across a floor and end in a standing position? If I had used this logic throughout my entire life I would now have 2 degrees, a driving licence and be some kind of multi-talented keyboard playing gymnast with a spectacular knowledge of British wild life.There are some things I would now like to do for a hobby- I would like to learn how to knit. I quite like the idea of cake decorating. I think I would probably enjoy some sort of dance class now and again. But am I going to do any of these things? Probably not. I will probably be rubbish at it to start with and get bored 3 weeks in. So I am going to quit while I'm ahead, and not even start... OK. Bored now. Going to make a cup of tea.