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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In no particular order:
- Finally do those after-class reading + tutoring sessions for kids in my daughter’s school.
- Sign up for shifts on the “Good-Night-Bus” in my local town that looks after homeless people during night-time.
- Play hand-pan, guitar & other random instruments at local relaxation spots to add to the overall atmosphere of “the good life”
- regularly offer my handymen skills to my neighborhood via local web-platform and also contribute to “Repair-Cafés” as a helping hand
- Find a local community-garden project to help out at so that the city stays 0.1% greener than without me
- Offer my yet-currently-relevant professional skills (Frontend / WebPerf / CDNs / DevOps) to a NGO that couldn’t usually afford my wages (again: preferably something relevant to my region to feel a sense of impact)
- Keep maintaining my OpenSource repositories and publish new ideas ASAP to prevent Software Patents
Get a couple of dogs and a camper van and travel with my wife, UK, Europe and then further afield.
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.
Working on something I want.
A lot of woodworking, a lot of fishing, and a lot of hanging out with family. It would be glorious.
Gardening and pickling/preserving foods to start. Writing a novel.
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.
Reading, crafting, learning a language.
Reading, hiking, backpacking, cooking, brewing, fixing, loving, caring, dreaming, building, gaming, growing, learning, teaching.
Harder, better, faster, stronger
Probably take a break for a month or two then look for some oss project or activism to participate in, play more music and video games, etc.
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.
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.
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.
