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.
Done this in IT for folks, even back when I was charging for it. No one has the skills and knowledge to do everything in the modern world, and not everyone can pay a pro.
Same here but fixing bikes, mowers, cars etc. I do a little when I can now, but finding the time isn’t trivial.
but finding the time isn’t trivial
Preach it! I work 40+ hours plus have a 3yo and 5yo. There’s no such thing as free time except when I’m supposed to be sleeping.
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 think you wouldn’t stress if you know you have no restriction on the free time.
For me I stress that I want to maximise the use of out of my very limited free time and can’t decide what I want to do, only to completely squander it.
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:
- Exercise (running in the warm months and skiing in the cold)
- TTRPGs (I might move from 1 day of the week into two, and assuming everyone else has the same deal play in-person instead of digitally)
- Reading (books and more books)
But mostly I would work on living the permaculture / herbalism fantasy.
- Do a lot more herbal formulation and
- Maybe open the small apothecary to sell things at Art fairs and other makers markets.
- Turn my urban yard into a full food forest to help grow some of my own food, and herbs. (I want to have an urban oasis of edible trees, bushes and other useful plants)
- Volunteer more a local prairie restoration group that I have worked with in the past
- Finally spend some time gorilla gardening on open lots and sides of alleyways around my neighborhood to spread the plant love.
Damn, you really have a plan up your sleeve. Good for you!
Well I have a long term plan to become a Slash worker. I want to be a day job / Herbalist. So have some ideas about how to the last part in a much slower timeline. Need to keep the day job but don’t want it to be my only thing but its mostly talk at this point.
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.
Harass minorities.
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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.
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.
