Imagine all your basic needs are covered: housing, food, healthcare, and so on. You don’t need to work for a living anymore. What would you do with your time?
I know this might sound like a bit of a dreamy question, but it’s been on my mind lately, especially as I see so many people working tirelessly day and night. Perhaps it’s time for us to slow down and reflect on what truly matters. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!
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Spending time with my wife
Working on open source projects
Learning new skills, musical instruments
Practicing karate
Spending time with my wife
I haven’t worked for almost a year. Mostly, I wake up, play video games, eat, and do some work around the house. There are pretty bad days where I feel worthless and tell myself pretty negative stories, but I’ve gotten much better at ignoring them. Now, I’ll be going back to work soon, and I’m terrified of losing my total free time.
I would work full time on contributing code and development efforts to [email protected] , which is a software used by scientists to distribute massive computational workloads to the computers of volunteers for processing. All sorts of medical, physics, and math research gets done through it.
Probably just developing free & open source software. Doing other things that I enjoy: music production, traveling, idk. I’d definitely make sure to have some goal, something that I can learn or work on. Something that I can achieve, and look back at.
Software development and computer stuff in general is my passion. I enjoy doing it as a hobby even after doing it at work. If I didn’t have to work for money, I would probably work on some open source software. In fact that’s kinda my dream / goal - achieve financial independence and work on open source as I please.
I’d work on my car and my computer/gamedev stuff, and teach others to do the same. Also more gardening.
I’d love to learn more. I’ve wanted to go and do either another degree, or get my PhD, but it’s just not realistic with being the only one bringing in money.
Probably finally finish some projects, too, rather than just starting them and losing interest.
While I understand the sentiment, there are a lot of jobs out there that are necessary but no one wants to do. If no one had to work society would fall apart. At least at this point in time. Maybe it we ever make it to the startrek universe with boundless energy, replictors, medical devices that just cure you.
10 hours/day on YT and Netflix
Depressed
Existential dread
Anxiety
Eat
Sleep
(In no particular order).
I’d love to say being productive, learning languages, helping the communities, doing good deeds, exploring the world, trying to fix the wrongs… But as of this moment, the above comment is the realistic answer.
A lot of woodworking, a lot of fishing, and a lot of hanging out with family. It would be glorious.
I would do a lot more camping and cycling mostly. really give the bass a red hot shot. tackle my pile of plastic shame
I do shit ton of traveling. Lots of camping and I spend a lot of spare time writing. Also I could knock out my backlog of games.
Hike the entirety of the AT and the PCT.
Go bikepacking more frequently. Or go on a months long trip.
Make art - photography, digital art, linocut.
Help friends and family with projects.
That’s the short version. There are so many possibilities once you remove the need to be tied to a job/computer for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. I would love to have the freedom to simply not work. I don’t want to be rich, I just want to be able to exist without having to work.
Reading, hiking, backpacking, cooking, brewing, fixing, loving, caring, dreaming, building, gaming, growing, learning, teaching.
Harder, better, faster, stronger
Hmmm I am kinda in this situation now and I have to say I still want to work just not for other people (unless I know them well). I actually am trying to be more active and working on my own stuff makes me feel good and gets me off my ass.
