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Certainly they have hobbies and enjoy them.Then you have people like Jay Leno who appears to like working on his own cars in his collection... as well as having people working for him.. and Richard from Gas Monkey Garage who's famously a relatively rich jerk, but works and have people work on the old cars he buys and sells.
I used to work on machines as a means to support myself, not as a hobby.
I can fix many machines, not just automobiles. I was trained to know how turbines work, refrigeration, plumbing, steam systems and so on. I can pilot a 32 ton MLB while towing a 150 ton fishing boat. I have a two year degree in ag & industrial equipment and worked for a while repairing those machines. I also have a EE degree and worked in that domain for a while. I can weld/cut/machine/heat treat metals. I can wire up building electrical systems. I can do simple carpentry. I can hunt and process the game I harvest.
That and more - or at least I used to be able to do much of that - some of it I haven't done in decades.
But I prefer to pay others to do it. Much of it is a chore and not a hobby, and my health isn't what it used to be. I now pay someone to change the oil in my daily driver. I don't hunt anymore because of my back injury makes walking any real distance painful, and my heart makes it a real risk that I will collapse somewhere remote - so I buy my meat.
I don't do those things for myself because I get no enjoyment out of doing them, and it is just too much work and sometimes pain.