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I enjoy taking risks, and I **get kicks** from speed, danger, and death-defying stunts. ...
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There are some sick puppies out there who **get kicks** out of writing various types of malicious programs (e.g. trojan horse or virus) and hoping people will run...
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А word of caution, though. First, whoever wants to IMPRESS her/his boss (or client, or even a work mate) (whether British or not) by telling him, "типа, даже если бы мне за это не платили бы деньги, я все равно занимался бы этим," is sending the employer the message that the employee would be happy to forgo her/his next Christmas raise. Moreover, such a hobbyist is actually saying (s)he is generally ready to work for peanuts. I mean it. I hope it ain’t yourself :)

Second. From my experience with British expats, a statement like this is likely to be lost on them, IMHO. Or they may sit up, mildly baffled. Because what is "в кайf", for too many Brits (English, specifically), is too often disparately far from their trades, occupations, and professions. A tough SAS officer may collect wet-forest butterflies, for example. A lady QC may happen too be a keen karate aficionado. A wealthy banker may be a passionate learner of Aramaic or his own pedigree, or raise tiny Shetland ponies, etc. Do-it-yourself seems to be everbody’s hobby in England. Proficient and knowledgeable they are on the job, the English still seem to think of their private, job-unrelated hobbies FIRST. Всеволод Овчинников recorded his observations of that sort in "Корни дуба". Давно, правда. But, like I said, it still stands with the English I’ve dealt with.

You mighty try and quote Shaw’s Prof Higgins in Pygmalion," Happy is the man who can make a living out of his hobby," but that may take a quite a bit of explaining.

As for me, I quote Shaw. It works. In my contexts, no explanation is needed. The key word is, of course, "living" :)

заранее спасибо

Хобби (типа собирательства бабочек) чуть-чуть в сторонке от этого посыла. Смысл не в том, чтобы зарабатывать деньги своим хобби, а, скорее, в том, что человеку нравится его работа, он ею увлечен и полностью этой работе отдается. Типа, готов жить в офисе :))

Т.е. как если бы тот самый офицер САС в свободное время не бабочек собирал бы, а тренировался бы у себя в части, на полигоне (или что там у них).

Ну да ладно. Всем спасибо.