I'm an English teacher and chess coach/chess author. No one called me nerd until they knew I'm into rockets. Now they want me to start a rocket club... And call me nerd. I'm okay with that. Everyone's got to have a thing. My thing is rocketry. Better that than gambling, drinking, strippers, etc. Sports do nothing for me. Why not? Build something that can fly thousands of feet in the air at hundreds of miles an hour? Yes sir. And at a fraction of the cost of building super fast cars...
Gambling drinking and strippers sound damn good to me...