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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.
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
Get a proper sleep.
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 have ADHD and my hobby is collecting hobbies. I don’t typically get bored. I would likely need to do some side gig to supplement buying things for new hobbies.
That's my current situation after retiring a few years ago. I stay busy with personal software projects, running a weekly in-person D&D campaign and playing in others, cooking, 3d design and printing, Arduino/ESP and electronics, woodworking, reading, TV & movies, and random crafting and other stuff that comes up.
Read, learn, create, and explore.
Gardening, fishing, skiing, hunting, making furniture, building boats, long road trips with the family.
Basically typical retirement shit.
I'd work on cars. And my house. It feels like I'm fighting entropy, I fix one thing and find 2 more problems in the process. But I know some of that is just the previous home owner doing a bunch of diy.
Learn to wood work and build furniture. I have a deep, deep loathing for flat pack furniture.
Garden. I'd love to have a proper garden.
Honestly. I'd just like to be rid of my anxiety over finances.
House in the middle of the woods, with internet connection. It's the weird eremite techno wizard life for me.
All the things I do for fun and hobbies I would do a lot more. Which would likely be the following:
But mostly I would work on living the permaculture / herbalism fantasy.
Continue to work for extra shit probably. Sure basic needs are met, but I don't think basic needs count for computer parts, drones, supplies for home improvements. My life would be easier on bills but would still need funds for projects and hobbies.
I would work on open-source software and play games, which is what I already do, I'd just have more free time to do it.
Chill on the couch. Watch Youtube. Go for bike rides. Learn the ukulele and go busking for fun. Do papercraft. I was able to do this for about 5 years, and then I had to go back to work, just as I was really getting my creative juices going.
Would finally make my dream game.
Write, read and analyze literature. Hopefully I’ll be able to do it as a job.
Short answer: work less.
Long answer: I actually enjoy my job, and have for a long time. If I had won several million long ago I would have kept my job because it (most of the time) was very fulfilling and important, though it has largely wrecked my body.
Now I can't fly anymore, so while my job is still important and fulfilling, it's not nearly as exciting, and I am constantly crazy busy, so I'd love to cut my hours about in half, probably. I'd still want to work.
Oh, and I'd build a forge in my backyard. So maybe work the same amount, but some of my time crafting things.
Work out, do DIY at home, volunteer at my local cat shelter and dedicate more time to making music, gaming and general computer fiddlin'. If it was literally just basic needs with no cash maybe host some services for people on a small scale or teach about self hosting for money to afford luxuries.
I'd love to go back to school, not for better grades, but purely for learning. There are some interesting af fields out there!
Ride my Motorcycle and brew beer. Then go work out. Hang with friends. Hike, swim, explore the world.
DM or GM tabletop games for groups
You're describing retirement. And, boy have I spent a LOT of time thinking about what that looks like.
A lot of people have lists of things they'd do, see, learn, or be. I had one too, but it kept fucking changing depending on where I was in life and what my interests were.
Any list I had always felt restrictive. Here's where I ended up instead...
I would put my energy and attention only on the things that I want to put them on at any given time.
I guess some call that living in the moment, but I call it retirement.
What is retirement? A time when you will have enough money to just exist in whatever way you desire? Sounds fake.
Make and restore furniture. Build shit. Garden. Read. Organize and fill out my media library. Learn programming and try to fix some of the problems I'm dealing with on Linux. Probably socialize more because I wouldn't be tired of dealing with people and stressed out from work all the time.
I'd love to keep working and volunteering. I'd still contribute to society and the social network that comes with it, but with none of the burden of having to earn money to survive.
i'd pick a direction and start walking.
If I were rich Id open a "Nerd-pub" board games, tabletop games, arcade machines, pool tables, pinball machines...
If I were just "doing ok" id probably start a youtube channel buying really cheap cars of FB marketplace and just reviewing how much of a piece of shit I've bought this month.
Become a blacksmith. I'd make all sorts of things.
And a welder. And a tool and die man.
I'd work with metal. And at some point I'd make a point to learn glass blowing because it's cool.
I achieved this 2 years ago. I spend my time rock climbing, travelling to rock climbing, hanging with friends, lifting, running, tackling little diy projects, working part time in a fun job to get some extra spending money, and trying to sleep with as many hot women as possible.
This is a lot of fun, and I highly recommend it.
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
I'm terrified because I don't really have an answer.
I think that's okay, because that just means your answer is something like "take some time to breathe and introspect about what I care about when I am given the space to care about stuff", or "try out a bunch of stuff I didn't have time or money for before, to see what seizes my passions".
I mean, it's not okay — it's a fucking injustice that so many of us are deprived of the opportunity to explore what we would do if we were free to live as we chose, but it's okay in the sense that it's not your fault, in case that's what you were feeling
Go back to the low paying job that I really liked but couldn't afford.
When the weather is good, be outside as much as possible. Do more long-distance, or even multi-day treks. Dick around in the woods more (survival skills for fun, learn more about identifying local plants and fungi, etc). Bring a book and some basic snacks, and hang out in public park space more often (we've got some beautiful spaces here). Basically just a lot more exploration, primarily on foot, bike, or skateboard depending on distance and energy level.
When the weather is crap, spend more time keeping my place in order and looking nice. Listen to music, read books, maybe try and get more deliberate about a writing habit. Pick a public indoor space of some kind and become a regular. Maybe volunteer.
Spend more time working on good habits to keep the energy level up for the above long term.
Id probrally learn programming and become a Linux distro/software maintainer for projects like Debian and maybe Libreboot.
Volunteer at a rescue centre to help the dogs and other animals
Create art. Writing screenplays and books. Painting, gardening, working out, traveling, seeing live music, volunteer with whatever great organization I happen to be into at the time. Spend more time in my community. Have children.
I would make handcrafted furniture, work on my garden, and contribute to open source software that supports both farming and woodcrafts.
Teach
I would spend a lot of time tending my garden, growing rare produce to share with the community, and crafting.
Learn shit.
Someone asked me this question recently and I had a minor existential crisis.
