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I'd grow food. Good food, and way more than I or my family could possibly eat. I'd also grow beautiful, ecosystem-supporting native plants. I'd offer to do the same for my neighbors who dont enjoy such things, or who just want a beautiful and functional yard.
With my leftover time i'd go hiking a couple times a week, and I'd read scientific literature when the sun goes down.
This right here. While my career might be in tech, nothing ever calls me like being a proper steward of the land. You can wake up and look out and see what you did growing and becoming stronger every day. It enriches your soul.
And we aren't even talking about how you feel when you donate food to people who need it.
Exercise, play music, go jogging around town and meet new people all the time. Basically what I do now except not having to condense it into the little time I have off.
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
Work to solve problems. Not on a fixed schedule, but my choosing.
Also, long walks and visiting people I like.
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’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?
Write, write until I drop dead, with a smile in my face.
Get high and scroll Lemmy, apparently
Make music, perform music, make games, make movies, write small books and maybe draw pictures.
And then I would try out being a research attorney, being an EMT, a pilot, maybe working with NASA at some point and working for some government agency specializing in digital warfare.
People always assume if you had everything you would just sit at home and be lazy and never try anything. But from my experience you don't do that shit just because you're complacent, you do it because either you are way too stressed out to try out new stuff or you are in the middle of a depressive episode. Almost all people I know wouldn't be able to be lazy for more than 2 weeks, they would start making something.
Pick up learning new languages and how to draw and make music. Create the things i think would be awesome but nobody else wants to and i cant because i dont have the money to learn efficently the skills required. Live in a nice little house in the woods with someone who loves me for who i am. Eat healthy and exercise.
All I want to do in life is make music, woodworking, and gardening for food. I would do that until I expired with a smile on my face.
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.
Make stuffed animals and donate them to hospitals, fire stations, and police stations
Organize town-wide scavenger hunts
Learn to cook good food and give it away to people who want some
Start a group that would teach people how to use a sewing machine.
Organize a bearded dragon rescue.
Trim people's hedges
Make videos to share all my knowledge with people for free
A podcast about the pre-columbian Americas which in all honesty would be a Hardcore History knockoff.
Just because your history enthusiast doing a podcast doesn’t mean you are ripping off Dane Carlin, and that is definitely a subject he is not given a lot of attention. You should go for it! I have produced podcasts professionally on the side (I’m a producer/video editor for main job), sorry if you have any questions let me know! And no I’m not talking about how to monetize and all that garbage. If you want to do a passion project, I can give you some resource suggestions (budget friendly) so you’ll be very happy with your results.
People give people shit for starting podcasts, but the fact is it’s not very hard to get one off the ground, you don’t have to invest much, and if you really enjoy it, there’s nothing quite like it. I really value some of the relationships I’ve developed over the years
While that is a nice fantasy I am unfortunately spending the grand majority of my time daily filling out job applications and watching coding tutorials at 2x speed.
Unless I receive a grant or some sort of income I can live off of up front I don't have the luxury to do a passion project at this time.
Totally understand. Hope that changes for you soon!
Work on myself for a good long while, then live a quiet happy life with some cats and, should i be so lucky, a partner i have mutual love and respect with.
See how deep the ADHD-hobby-collection rabbit hole can go 😁
Volunteer at various non-profits. I am (sadly) one of those people that "need" to work in some capacity in order to fill fulfilled. I also need structure, which I'm not very good at building for myself. I need to be held accountable (such as being expected to show up to work at a certain time), and work has always helped me do that.
I'm about to leave my current job with no back-up plan, and while my savings and partner will provide for me for the rest of the year, I'm kinda dreading not having structure. I'll probably volunteer somewhere.
Nothing.
Be a librarian. I always felt like being a custodian to knowledge was a noble pursuit, and I respect librarians alot for it. I never went into the field myself because I couldn't afford the schooling just to get a job that in my area, doesn’t pay very well. If pay wasn't a problem? Hoo boy!
That sounds fun, might do that part time in this scenario while getting through the backlog of media that's piled up over the years.
So many hobbies
Open a non-profit primitive skills school. There are several of these skills that are rapidly dying and will likely be gone within a generation.
Probably mostly cooking, cleaning, going on adventures with the dog, playing music, and smoking extravagant amounts of weed
Volunteer, hands down. Local community stuff, create something akin to a co-op public broadcasting channel, spend time with my animals, bake and donate goods.
Fish
Go around pantsing people all day. Go so hard that it starts to feel like work. Then pants myself and end it all.
Write only free code. Right now, probably 80% of my code is free. I’d bump that up to 100%.
I’d sell all my things are just travel. Living in one place and being stuck in a routine is like a mental prison for me.
Travel, camp, travel. Play with dog
Retire. Fighting my medical conditions is a full time job as it is.
Run an animal sanctuary and grow lots of veggies and flowers
Write, program, cook, maybe have sex
I'd like to think I'd actually do all the art I'm too fucking stressed to sit down and focus on. Maybe make a video game or two.
My long term wish has always been to fuck off to somewhere not-too-warm and tropical, and write stories from a place where I can see the sea.
Make music, check it out:
I don't make money from it so I'd still do it even if all my needs were met.
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.
Probably continue to work in transpiration with special needs school kids. My job isn't so much about money to me at this point I'm deeply emotionally invested.
I’d be a teacher
I think the saying “if more money wouldn’t change the way you live your life, then you’re already rich” applies to me pretty well. I don’t think my life would be all that different. Maybe I’d spend more time working on my own projects instead of customers’, but generally speaking, there’s nothing I’m not doing because of financial limitations.
My ultimate goal, though, would be to buy a small old farm with some land and spend the rest of my adult life working on that.
Knowing me, do what I normally do in my free time, but hopefully actually get projects done.
I'd have plenty of time to play games, watch my shows, listen to CDs/music, hopefully finish a project I started on Wattpad or another program, and spend time learning coding to help with my NeoCities site and some other projects I wanna work on but don't know enough to make become a realiety.
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.
You know those people who restore old machinery and equipment? Locomotives, historic warships, industrial sites and so on? I'd absolutely be dedicating my day to that. There's something so satisfying about seeing that old stuff work, but they're always chronically understaffed and struggling to keep up with everything.
Oh, and write a novel.
Make a tiny caravan and travel all over
Define basic needs.
Is that just food water shelter utilities Healthcare clothing?
Does it include entertainment?
Travel?
Work so that others can also have their needs met.
