Get high and scroll Lemmy, apparently
Work to solve problems. Not on a fixed schedule, but my choosing.
Also, long walks and visiting people I like.
Work on Free Open Source Software. Seriously, I fucking love software engineering and I can’t really imagine doing anything else with my life. In fact, that’s kinda my current plan - work towards financial independence and then work on things that matter to me, on my own terms. I really hope I won’t get burned out somewhere in the process.
Same here. I wanna study compsci, do some research into things I pick up as being interesting along the way, then work on FOSS for as much as I can (without burning myself out, or anything like that). The world doesn’t appreciate FOSS enough, but it could very well be the future of computing, as our capitalistic society quickly gets fucked up :')
I’m a licensed electrician. I do construction for my job.
If I didn’t need to work to support myself and my family, I’d offer my services as a licensed electrician to my community at-cost. I’d charge for materials, but not my own labor. Basically, just use the skills I have to support others in my community who could benefit from those skills.
But I also wouldn’t work anything close to 40 hours/week.
It’s really satisfying. I’ve done this a few times, fixing someone’s home when they couldn’t otherwise afford it is one of the biggest ways to make an impact on someone.
Done this in IT for folks, even back when I was charging for it. No one has the skills and knowledge to do everything in the modern world, and not everyone can pay a pro.
Same here but fixing bikes, mowers, cars etc. I do a little when I can now, but finding the time isn’t trivial.
but finding the time isn’t trivial
Preach it! I work 40+ hours plus have a 3yo and 5yo. There’s no such thing as free time except when I’m supposed to be sleeping.
I’d start with gardening, fishing, road tripping, camping, hiking, but I think that might eventually not be stimulating enough. I’d probably pickup a hobby that would enable artistic expression. Maybe pottery, or stained glass?
Get on my bike and see how far it could take me. And when I was done with that I would go build bike trails for my community.
Get a proper sleep.
Painting, drawing. General arts. Travel. Eating adventures. Fitness. Electronics and automation. Programming. Health focus.
And I’d make my point and click adventure game. Finally.
The dream
Make music, write terrible sci-fi, and publish economics research (assuming we haven’t reached post-scarcity yet).
Basically I’d have time to actually dedicate myself to my hobbies.
I would do nothing while also not stressing out about doing nothing.
“Know what I did yesterday? Nothing. I did nothing. And it was everything I thought it would be.”
I think you wouldn’t stress if you know you have no restriction on the free time.
For me I stress that I want to maximise the use of out of my very limited free time and can’t decide what I want to do, only to completely squander it.
do you want a list?! I have adhd and 1.324 different hobbies and projects in different stages of completeness. If I had free time I would get 200 more hobies and start 200 more project without finishing the ones before lol
Travel, camp, travel. Play with dog
All the things I do for fun and hobbies I would do a lot more. Which would likely be the following:
- Exercise (running in the warm months and skiing in the cold)
- TTRPGs (I might move from 1 day of the week into two, and assuming everyone else has the same deal play in-person instead of digitally)
- Reading (books and more books)
But mostly I would work on living the permaculture / herbalism fantasy.
- Do a lot more herbal formulation and
- Maybe open the small apothecary to sell things at Art fairs and other makers markets.
- Turn my urban yard into a full food forest to help grow some of my own food, and herbs. (I want to have an urban oasis of edible trees, bushes and other useful plants)
- Volunteer more a local prairie restoration group that I have worked with in the past
- Finally spend some time gorilla gardening on open lots and sides of alleyways around my neighborhood to spread the plant love.
Damn, you really have a plan up your sleeve. Good for you!
Well I have a long term plan to become a Slash worker. I want to be a day job / Herbalist. So have some ideas about how to the last part in a much slower timeline. Need to keep the day job but don’t want it to be my only thing but its mostly talk at this point.
I’m a software engineer so I’d probably seek a way to use my skills in a way that benefits people, possibly something tied to volunteering work I already do. And also contribute to some open source project.
I’d try to maintain a somewhat regular working schedule but with fewer hours per day than I currently spend at my job. Maybe I’d travel and work from different places.
Play video games. Bake bread. Learn to code. Create music. Maybe create a game of my own some day. Release it 100% for free because all my needs are met.
… oh, and sex. Lots of sex. But I think that goes without saying
Weird tangent. For a busy bread lover, have you considered a bread maker? I still make loaves by hand time to time, but with a bread maker my place regularly smells like a lovely cottage and im eating delicious fluffy bread a few times a week. It’s one of those purchases I didnt know I would love and I end up using so regularly. It really changed my life for the better.
I had a bread maker and it drove me batty, it was like Schrodinger’s bread box. Put ingredients in, and then no control over what happens. Maybe bread, maybe brick, no way to adjust it. I gave it to the neighbor because it was causing anxiety.
Now, for quite a few years I do make sourdough.(long enough my high school age kids can’t remember before I did) . That is bread making. A long runway to adjust the timing, and really at any point you can throw it in the fridge and go to work, start again when you have time. And plenty of opportunity to touch the dough to understand what it needs. Near 100% success with this, vs. about 60% with yeasted dough and bread maker.
A stand mixer is just fine. It’s really not the much more difficult to move the dough from the mixing bowl to the oven.
Yeah sometimes I use the mixer, finally got one big and strong enough to handle the 2 kg of dough I am usually working with (for 2 big loaves) and I love it!
But then rest the dough, stretch it a couple of times, let it rise, shape into baskets and either rise again and bake, or retard it in the fridge overnight or even longer, depending on schedule.
I haven’t, but I could maybe see myself doing that
