side interest

But politics was a side interest and, for much of the next 20 years, his legal career was his focus.

Sakoda focused on gardening, his family and a longstanding mathematical side interest: origami.

The blog and cookbook were a side interest.

From that point on, he became the country’s urgent, irreplicable voice: a 6-foot-4 submariner who’d spent four years of his life underwater, who had a side interest in drones, and who now obsessed over the cold metrics of vaccine deliveries, efficiency and declining mortality.

I had a side interest: to find traces of Asian American history in this part of the Sierra Nevada foothills.