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If you didn't have to work, how would you spend your time?

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!

ma11en ,

Get a couple of dogs and a camper van and travel with my wife, UK, Europe and then further afield.

cordlesslamp ,

10 hours/day on YT and Netflix

Depressed

Existential dread

Anxiety

Eat

Sleep

(In no particular order).

Etterra ,

Minus the existential dread most of the time, plus a constant lack of any hope whatsoever but same. Oh and don’t forget my eight fucking medications daily, and a few more less often or as needed. And therapy of course. And having regular suicidal/death centric thoughts.

So you have trouble falling asleep and waking up too? That part is fun too.

SendMePhotos ,

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.

phoenixz ,

Spending time with my wife

Working on open source projects

Learning new skills, musical instruments

Practicing karate

Spending time with my wife

Fizz ,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

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.

Monument ,

I’d keep working for a few years and use every single penny to generate additional passive income. Once I was not just comfortable, but nicely appointed, I’d split my time between working part time, doing stuff to help other people, and being a gigantic slut.

Andromxda ,
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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.

ickplant ,
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I would keep working part time because I love my job (psychotherapist). I would also garden, knit, go camping a lot, learn a musical instrument, write fiction and non-fiction books, have a podcast about mental health, and spend more time with friends. Traveling would also be a favorite.

greyw0lv ,

I’d probably spend my time learning IT, computer hardware specs and maybe networking.

Maybe build a private file sharing | streaming service for my apartment, and start a website blog.

Perhaps also persue digital art and finally learn how to use vectors.

Maybe also make a YouTube channel and spend my time educating others.

But alas, im bound by my need for an income and will spend the next few years trying to persists as a (almost) new mechanical engineer bachelor.

HobbitFoot ,

I would dedicate more time to exercise. My running would be more consistent and I would likely add yoga and weight lifting.

I would travel a lot more, with big trips to different places. This includes going cross continent in several continents.

I have some ideas for non-fiction writing, specifically an anthology on industrial era technology and how it caused societal change.

I might teach at a community college given my experience and education.

Cybermonk_Taiji ,

Mostly getting stoned and doing kung fu training

Clbull ,

I have a friend who worked his ass off as a teenager and had founded a moderately successful IT business from the back of his garage. He sold his share of the firm at 21 and walked away with a seven digit bank balance.

He’s one of those self-proclaimed alpha males who did a lot of stuff like playing video games a lot, martial arts (black belt in two martial arts), gym, partying, etc. He would also still work from time to time, not out of necessity but rather boredom

Unfortunately age and a nasty case of long COVID caught up with him, so he’s mainly going back into IT.

hanrahan ,
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I don’t work I quit work at 35 and am now 58. It takes time Toni shacke from the societal indoctrination Misha bleeding work as worthy. I live off a small investment income from investments made decades past (I was buying shares from age 19 and have always been frugal growing up poor, I also own my own modest cottage in a small rural village) Those investments have only grown through no particular perspicacity of mine.

Eventually you can come to understand that freedom is and do what you want. My only regret ? Not quitting earlier, those years were wasted and I can’t get them back.

makeasnek ,
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I would work full time on contributing code and development efforts to !boinc , 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.

KISSmyOSFeddit ,

I like to think I’d tend to my garden, fix bicycles for the neighborhood, volunteer at a youth center and become politically active. But there were times when I had no job and no lack of money, and I just doomscrolled 16 hours a day.
Now I have a job that doesn’t stress me out, has purpose, pays the bills and then some, and is done at 3pm. And I actually do all these other things in my free time.
But I do need strong external motivation to start the day and get outside.

feoh ,

I would spend more time doing charity work and contributing to open source.

I already volunteer for a reproductive justice charity, and I would LOVE to devote more time to making the Linux desktop more accessible for visually impaired folks like me.

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