I’m unemployed and that phone doesn’t ring, I have some much free time but I’m anti social… So I stay at home almost all day and only go out if I need to buy something or an interview comes up. Aside the house chores and videogames I don’t do anything else.
What you do when you have lots of free time?
Edit: I forgot I’m online studying for a driving license, but is so boring I forgot I was doing that.
I don’t have too much free time. Lil shits like you are the reason for that. People like you are leeches. A net negative worth to society.
Bet you’re fun at parties, huh?
Depends on the parties.
Nice, I finally have someone to block.
Give them a break hahahahaha it isn’t as if they aren’t trying to apply themselves - whatever the difference in scale may be
No. Been there, done that. It’s been over 5 years and the ruling just came in 2 weeks back. I finally get to legally kick out the 40yo leech living in my house.
I have given them breaks, and every single time I come to regret it. I have zero compassion or empathy for people like that.
Ohhh so a landlord. Checks out.
Sounds like you’re painting the world with broad strokes based on narrow circumstances. Not everyone is the 40yo you want to kick out, even if their situation seems similar. The OP is more than likely nowhere near 40 and obviously looking for ways to change their state in life. No reason to beat a stranger up because they resemble someone you know.
Edit: I just read more of the thread…the OP actually kinda sucks.
Spend my time in TF2. By the time I become aware of the time, it’s already 8pm.
I will tell you if it ever happens to me. Honestly being unemployed in the modern age sucks because there is always more to look into. Way back when I would look at the sunday classifieds, send resumes, and maybe the thursday paper would have a thing or two but besides that it was wait for replies. Now its like an unending treadmill.
I myself spend a disproportionate amount of my free time debugging open source software (and filing bug reports and patches).
I cannot relate. Sometimes I dream that I were fired just to be free.
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It’s tempting to drown yourself in entertainment/escapism, but try to do 1 hard effortful thing a day. Things like studying, working out, etc.
Art, woodworking, painting, carving, clay/wax/digtal sculpture, 3d printing, making your own video games,
OP, is there any particular reason why you posted this when you were just going to shoot down every suggestion people have given you?
If you read my post correctly, I never asked for advice
So… you asked people what they do with their free time, and then when people answer your question, you tell them why you aren’t interested in that thing?
Your responses definitely imply you were expecting people to provide suggestions that you could adopt.
Why even comment if your comment is just “that sounds boring/dumb/not for me”?
I don’t see anything wrong with it
Seems to me like the OP was fishing for attention, negative or otherwise.
Yeah I took a peek at OP’s history and it looks like they’ve been banned from the .world asklemmy muni for posting too much “woe is me” shit. Really this is just a reminder of how much worse the moderation is on this muni compared to the other big asklemmy.
Man, I’ve been disabled since 2005, so I feel the pain of having to find purpose and satisfaction without a job. I miss working, though I would have preferred to be able to work less and still make a living lol.
I find that diversifying my interests helps. I have a lot of down time where being productive isn’t possible (you know, chores and such), so I’ve had to find multiple things to do while recovering from activity. But you can only play so many games, read so many books, do so many crosswords, etc.
Meditation is a big plus. Learning how to be in stillness is a powerful tool.
Picking up skills is a huge benefit. Doesn’t have to be anything big. Just watching some videos and reading up on something like sketching can fill weeks of down time, and then you either learn a new skill that’s useful, or improve an old skill (I used to be pretty decent, but years of working and not drawing had atrophied my sketch skill). Could be anything like that with a low investment in supplies.
If you are capable of it, pick up some coding. Doesn’t have to be enough to do anything, but you’ll have a better understanding of things.
Keep your brain active is what I’m getting at. There’s zero pressure to be good at anything you try, it’s all about the process, the exercise of your mind to keep the boredom and ennui at bay.
Buy a Kindle and read books.
Fuck Kindle. Get a Kobo! They are way better value for money, particularly if you like to pirate your books
Pirating books on a Kindle is trivial as well.
I have my fill of reading with this place. Plus it teaches me English.
Reading online comments and reading a book might technically be the same action, but trust me it’s really not comparable. Books are also a great way to practice English. It’s basically how I got to my level despite never having studied for tests.
Some things I do:
- Read a book
- Learn/practice a language
- Go cycling or hiking through nature
- Take the train to a city or town I haven’t been to before and explore
I am trying to get back into the groove of working on pet projects, to further fill out my portfolio. I’m a software engineer, and the last 6 years have been spent working on proprietary codebases. So, I figure it’s a good idea to come up with more ways to show my chops.
So what are you working on exactly?
I have a few projects I dabble in with a bit of rotation.
I want to start a new one, building out a CLI specifically for LaserDisc collection tracking and organization.
How would that work? More automatic or manual input? Those are the bigger CDS right? You have a machine to just put them in and your program reads out the data you need to categorise it? Or is it a Web crawler for publicly available information?
The idea (without having drawn out a tech design yet) is that first and foremost it serves as a search engine. I want to use the lddb search engine, however I don’t believe they have an API so I’d have to scrape the results.
You can hand input search terms, or you can use a barcode scanner and scan the UPC. If you’re like me and you use QR code stickers to catalogue your collection, you can also scan those with the right gun.
Results pop up. Then you have the option to save it to your collection, if it already isn’t. If it is already in your collection, you may have other meta data available such as watch count incrementing, a “loaned to X” flag, notes, etc.
Initially the database would be a simple, local Sqlite db that can be backed up. Later I could add some more connectivity options, for remote dbs.
Those are the bigger CDS right?
From outward appearances, but it’s different technology. LD is actually analog.
There are a lot of hobbies you can get into that can be started with little or not cost, or with equipment/materials you already own.
Figure out what interests you and see what can be done inexpensively.
With a phone or computer, there’s writing, music, programming, learning new skills, Wikipedia, Pinterest, et al. Maybe take your phone and start photographing stuff in your area that interests you.
Find someone who has experience in an area you’re interested in. People tend to like to talk about their hobbies and interests and they can tell you how easy or difficult it is to get started. They might even be able to help you get started.
Maybe find a volunteer opportunity that helps pad your resume. Like animals? Volunteer at a local shelter.
There are a bunch of job certifications you can train for online that can also help build your resume.
I don’t like animals and I honestly don’t care about other people tbh volunteer isn’t for me. Also usually does not pay. I can’t waste time like that. I’m poor low class we usually don’t do any of that.
I’m an immigrant in a small town in Italy. So majority of the stuff here is more I would say middle class shit, and exploring has always been lame for me.
Ah, now it makes sense. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen you before, with a post about how can one plan to live alone for the rest of their life, or something to that effect, and it was exactly like this.
Seriously, I think you should not only consider, but also just straight out start therapy. And you should start it pronto. I’m sure Italy has a more or less accommodating welfare system that makes this possible. Takes jumping through a few loops likely, but my man, you seem miserable and it makes me sad to see anyone live with a mind like this. Life could, and should, be as tolerable as possible, if not even nice. I realize you are in a mental state where this sounds unrealistic or just out right hopeless dreaming, but I’m telling you, if you are in a western Europe country and have access to internet and basic utilities, you already have all it takes to make you happy. The rest of it is just improving mental health and attitude.
Best of luck, though I expect you won’t even consider any of this and will just continue taking the easy road of ignorance and giving up. And that’s fine, it’s your prerogative. But I truly hope you find some help and people around you to get you through this rut.
Sigh
You were asking for suggestions of activities to spend your “free” time on, and then dismissed suggestions because they don’t pay.
You also dismissed some other great suggestion completely, like programming and making art, drawing, composting etc.
Assuming your game interests aren’t strictly limited to Call of Duty and FIFA, you might be interested in making games and game related art, like pixel art, 3D models, chiptune music, etc. There’s tons of free tools for creating those and practically unlimited resources to learn from.I never asked for advice, I asked what are YOU doing
Ok, I guess you’re technically right; you didn’t, in fact, ask for suggestions. But your post heavily implies that you are. Because why else would you be asking? Just to learn what other people are doing with no particular goal? Usually people ask such questions to get some ideas.
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Keeps replying to people to express their disinterest in the offered free time activities.
Honestly OP is clearly depressed and angsty and is taking it out on us.
Kill a half hour working out and/or go for a jog. You don’t even need weight, just do bodyweight.
Take up hiking, it is nearly free, you get sun and exercise. You can even take a trash bag with you and clean up litter.
Find someone to stalk and murder.
Fishing is a great and cheap waste of time and you get sun.
Find an unsolved mystery in your area and work on solving it.
Start collecting pinecones, cool rocks, or used syringes.
Birdwatching can obliterate free-time and you might meet some widowed GILF to be your sugar momma.
Go places and give them Google or yelp reviews, be derrainged in your writing style like Hunter S Thompson with a head injury.
Take up meditation and have a false sense of superiority because you practice socially acceptable rotting with a calming mentally healthy spiritual guise.
Yoga is a thing, I’m sure you can make yoga pants look great.
Taxidermy roadkill armies don’t assemble themselves, you can even find a tabletop game event to unlease your army upon and meet new people. Worst case you learn about the criminal justice system and that will kill even more time.
Befriend a murder of crows and receive their gifts.
Some of these are not like the others
You have no idea how much I appreciated the slow lead in your comment. The entire thing is very high quality and I highly enjoyed reading whatever the fuck that was.
Excellent answers and I’d add -
Baaa-ing at lambs and baby goats - they’re incredible vocal little guys
Sticking googly eyes on things (not artwork or statues)
Feeding ducks - one should always use canned peas because they sink slowly, creating a kind of “How low will it go” game
Befriending geese - this is remarkably simple. Just walk past them every day and feed them a few dandelion leaves. Within a month or two you will have your new friends that you can pat on the head, and for some reason they show their affection by nibbling your shoes
