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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They’re would be a lot of time involved in bettering my community. Also a lot of trips and hobbies.
Go on long walks with a litter bag cleaning parks etc while listening to books and music. Get really in shape. Cook every meal for my family. Write fiction. Get involved in helping local political movements. Attend more protests.
I would get a house, get a dog and just chill with said dog.
Work on projects that I think are important instead of just profitable.
Could you answer more vaguely please?
I tried to be accurate instead of specific.
If I didn’t have to work anymore, I’d have more time to explore potential things to work on, so whatever project I’d pick right now would probably not be my main focus after 3 months of settling into my new life.
From where I am right now, I think it would be something to do with language-level features for distributed computing (but not that web3 nonsense). There’s a lot of potential to weaken the monopoly power of cloud providers by working on something like that, which is why it’s an under-explored area.
But I’d need more people to work with, and some specific use cases to go after. So I would expect the effort to change a lot by the time I actually found the right group of people to work with.
Lets do this! 😀
Yes
Hell yeah, I would not be helping puff up a doomed tech product for venture selloff if I was chasing actual utility.
I know a lady who is retired but wealthy, and she spends her spare time in a sewing club, making really high quality beautiful clothes for low-income families in smaller low-income areas, and provides those clothes to those families for free.
When she told me that the first time, my estimates of her went through the roof.
Find a job I’d love.
I don’t want to be useless, but now I wouldn’t have to be worried about money.
I’d finally finish some of my personal projects.
Over the last few years, I’ve had so many ideas for stuff, both video games and just basic useful software. This is where the curse of being a professional software engineer kicks in. I know that I’m experienced enough to actually make those things but after a full day of work, preparing dinner and getting the apartment in order, there is just not enough time and energy left to get my ass in front of an IDE again. I’d love to have the opportunity, even if just for a year or so to pause my day job and spend my energy on something that is actually mine and has emotional value for me.
On top of that, I have a couple of hobbies that would benefit from having more time. Photography, HEMA (fencing with proper swords), board games, 3d printing and painting miniatures… one thing is for sure, I wouldn’t get bored any time soon.
Same. I would absolutely love to park my RV in some beautiful place and just code for months. Likewise, I have three DSLR cameras and two 3D printers I haven’t had a chance to use in months/years. I have sooo many hobbies and interests. I don’t understand people that get bored. There are never enough hours in a day for me. I could live ten lifetimes and still find things to do.
there is just not enough time and energy left to get my ass in front of an IDE again.
The solution here is to revert to coding with punch-cards
I’d do nothing. Sleep as long as I want, go to bed when I want. Being online, being offline, it really does not matter. Like holidays, but forever.
No offense but wouldn’t that be kinda boring (say doing nothing for 10 years)? Maybe you also mean to do other things but didn’t mention.
Once I’ve recovered from it all and not tired all the time I suppose I’d fix up the house, gardening, designing intricate sandwiches and cocktails and other drinks, write, play video games, hang out with friends, eat, drink, walk, travel… But like 5 days a week I’m gonna hang back, chill, watch tv, play video games (I have a huge backlog even though I game plenty).
oooh. design intricate sandwiches! sounds like a lovely holiday!!
Maybe. But feeling bored would be an amazing feeling for a change.
It never got boring whenever I did this in the past (i.e. every holidays and vacations). So I’d say, no.
Brew beer, fix motorbikes, make bird boxes, travel, walk, read, volunteer, cycle, write software, build electronics, sit in the sun with a cat on me. I can’t wait to retire.
That’s similar to me! Fix motorcycles, build guitars, travel, read, volunteer more, build electronics (specifically guitar pedals), and play music. I’ll actually probably drink less because I won’t be trying to cram as much as possible in my limited free time.
Having your basic needs covered is cool, but I’d like some money on top of that, too. So work it is.
I just sleep in and play video games and be depressed. It’s not good.
I do that when I don’t work but will Monday, or after the holidays. But when I actually had time as in, I’m not going to have to be back to work for a long time, I’d start picking up useful stuff. Turns out the sleep in and games/ depressive state comes from expecting to have to go back to the routine again. That’s why how you react to time out when you are still pressured to have to work eventually doesn’t give you a good answer to this question.
I agree with this. It takes me weeks, if not months, to really unwind.
When I work I do my hobbies in my free time when I’m unemployed I do fuck all just playing games and passing the time.
A lot of birdwatching, maybe some music-making, and learning to cook very well.
Garden, fuck, go to the beach, read, dance, cook and ferment, hang out with people. Probably still work some for money if I needed it to buy stuff like drinks or an e-bike, or to travel, I’m sure we’d still have a money economy of some sort. Same stuff I’d do if I could afford to retire. If I was a few years younger, would foster a kid or two.
Oh, and I’m sure I could live a full and healthy life without paid employment, myself.
Gardening and pickling/preserving foods to start. Writing a novel.
