Re-creating this thread a different server.
edit: “not work” as in “food, housing, and healthcare needs are met,” not as in “billionaire super-villain money”
I would sail sail the great lakes for weeks at a time.
I would write more music, and hire musicians to play it with me.
I would spend half the summer growing food (which I already do!)
I would continue to invest in my own mental health, but spend more time meditating.
I have chronic fatigue (to simplify a longer story), and spending that precious energy solving logic puzzles for a paycheck is sometimes pretty demoralizing.
I’d travel way more. I’d visit friends and family and hang out with them, which is almost impossible right now because everyone’s trying to work and and survive. I would probably consider having kids. I can’t justify a child in my current financial situation.
Id still do the same work I’m doing now most likely, but I would cut back workdays to maybe 3 days a week at most. I’d cook more.
I’d definitely be less stressed. I wouldn’t have to worry about rent or my electric getting shut off.
Idk, I would do everything I think this life was meant for compared to the hellhole we are in currently.
I’d want to learn a language or two. Specifically Irish/Gaeilge (my heritage) and French.
I’d also work on getting healthier and being a better friend and neighbor.Being able to speak Gaeilge and French would be very cool.
I’d learn Mandarin if I had the time
When I retire I want to hike and camp, cook really nice meals, grow a garden, and make hot rods.
Work for my retirement because you forgot that :P
I would travel a bit and concentrate more on farming. I do enjoy my software engineering job and was writing code as a hobby long before it paid the bills so I’d want to keep up something like that.
I would be an inventor. I would be an explorer. I would be a teacher. I would be an artist. I would be a musician. I would be an entertainer. I would be a builder.
I’d like to think that I’d spend the work time on my hobbies. But realistically I’d spend most of the day watching YouTube videos and reading Lemmy because “I have to go to the store later so I can’t start something big now”. I’d definitely spend more time on my own programming projects, music production, running (or maybe other sports), and gaming though.
Even if my needs were met I’d still spend a lot of my time achieving wants. Not just stuff I can buy or pay for, but things that bring me satisfaction and contentment. So I’d probably still have a job, just with a little flexibility towards prioritizing job satisfaction over pure pay.
If I was free to do anything legal with enough money to maintain my current middle class lifestyle, then I would spend a lot of my time visiting cool places and photgraphing them.
I am no millionaire, not even in SEK, but make a good living, if I could keep my current pay and just do whatever, I would be travelling throughout Sweden and the rest of Europe looking for cool places, like abandoned industries, old/abandoned military infrastructure, old/abandoned civil infrastructure, cool modern places with infrastructure.
I’d probably save up to get a smaller crossover SUV, I love my 2021 Seat Leon, but it isn’t brilliant at going over overgrown tracks.
I would put all my focus in making my games finally, instead of just some evenings
First, I would move into my own place so I don’t have to deal with the constant stress of conforming to the expectations of my bigoted family members. Then, for a while, I would probably do nothing. I’m burnt out and have a lifetime of shit to process and heal from. I need time to pick up all the parts of myself that the world has forced me to throw away.
Eventually, when I’ve gotten a little better, I’ll probably start wanting to accomplish things again. Nothing so ambitious as the dreams I used to have, but they were probably unrealistic anyway. And with my basic needs covered, I would be free to do what I find important and fulfilling instead of spending all my time making line go up for some asshole billionaire.
I’ve always wanted to write stories. I used to draw and paint, a long time ago before the depression got really bad. I’m starting to learn 3D modeling and gamedev, and it would be nice to do that just because I want to, not because I’m unable to work a regular job and am flailing for a way to pay the bills.
Maybe I would just organize get-togethers with my friends where we play tabletop games and eat food I cooked for them using produce from a little garden I made.
There’s no shortage of things to do if I’m free to pursue them.
Upskill to improve the world significantly.
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Well… Great that I don’t need to worry about it but I still need to worry about it for my horses. So believe it or not. I would still work to afford that.
There are two kinds of people who own horses
The ones who are rich as sin, and the ones with cobwebs in their wallets.
It is called a stable bank balance for a reason… Cause the money will eventually end up in the stable with the horses.
Still wouldn’t trade it for something else.
Make music. Travel, if money isn’t an issue.
I am in this situation and it perfectly equalizes with transness/nonbinariness to neutral privilege
At one of my lowest points I wasn’t going out of the house for months except just to throw the trash out because of severe social anxiety.
If I had to work on top of that stuff I think id be gone really fast. I just treat it all like the social welfare I need and try to improve the whole situation with tiny steps. Lucky in unlucky situation is like my life motto
