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Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
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Re: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
#132Surf every day. I’m not sure if you can do this job remotely, but you say you’re coastal … military … San Diego perhaps? Anyway, the thing to do is the thing everybody else at every other stage of life wishes they could do. There are billionaires who wish they could just surf every day.
I wish I were back in San Diego, I'd love to get back in the water. Sadly I'm in the gulf coast, so not much here in the way of surf. I'm thinking of building a longboard though.
There is a decent amount of surf on the gulf, especially if you like to longboard. I surfed ~50 days a year while living in Houston.
Re: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
#133Re: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
#134Do you have a spouse or family?
Spend time w them and travel?
Other than that, finishing side-projects.
Re: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
#135- Travel and meet all my old friends/family that I haven't for years or even decades even though we are all on "social media" and "like" each other's posts. - Setup 100% free Quality Private Primary education in developing countries like India and actually be on the ground for the most part doing it initially myself.
Wouldn’t it be more practical to pay someone Indian wages to actually do the teaching?
not if you want to improve the quality. you need to train the teachers but to do that you need to have local experience teaching yourself.
personally, if i were going that route i would learn and then train montessori method
Re: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
#136I don't have to work. Or more accurately, I can avoid work for a long time without any consequences. Think of a balloon that deflates slowly. I have to blow air into it sometimes, but rarely right now.
The weather ends up being a lot more consequential. Sunny days rarely get wasted. I ride my bicycle a lot in the summer.
I can spend more time on projects with zero economical incentive. That's most of my work these days. I can write better tools for my readers without thinking about how they'll pay for themselves. I get to work on what feels right.
I have the time to do things slowly. I can walk two hours to get somewhere, and stop for coffee along the way. I can overengineer things.
I am a lot more available and I am more generous with my time. I don't need to invest my free time so judiciously. People told me that I've become far more relaxed and easygoing.
However I'm very careful about gaming and mindless browsing. I still have an alarm and some structure in my life. I try not to waste my years aboard the gravy train.
I still don't make time to practice an instrument. I didn't join any clubs or rebuild any old motorcycle. I learned that I don't really care about some of those things. The lack of time was just an excuse.
To sum it up as actionable advice: do more of the things you love. Treat it like two hundred Saturdays. Don't turn this into a job, and don't spend them on the couch either.
Re: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
#137Make music, improve at weightlifting and try new sports.
Also write useful free software, as in beer (no ads) and freedom.
Re: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
#138Surf every day. I’m not sure if you can do this job remotely, but you say you’re coastal … military … San Diego perhaps? Anyway, the thing to do is the thing everybody else at every other stage of life wishes they could do. There are billionaires who wish they could just surf every day.
That's what I was thinking, I'd go to my favorite break in CR and spend a few months being unplugged and quiet. I'd surf every morning and watch the sunset every evening and not really worry about what I did in between.
Re: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
#139> beside the obvious of relaxing, hobbies, etc, what would you do
If I didn’t have to work? That’s it! That’s all I’d do. Hobbies and relaxing.
Re: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
#140I would catch on some meaningful activities for the community and did some interesting physical activity, as in hiking in great locations, surfing, etc. When I work 60 hr work week, it doesn't leave much space for doing something beyond bare necessities in terms of exercise.