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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?

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Post by afr0ck »

newsoundwave wrote: post #17

Me personally: I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mexico-California border to the Washington-Canada border in 2022. While I missed work on trail, it definitely made me realize that once I'm financially independent, I'm mostly going to be living a life outdoors, with occasional indoor time to play music. Your situation is a bit different from my goals, but honestly if I had that opportunity, I'd be doing my best…

I feel like you are describing me. I speak four languages. I love engineering and building stuff, but I have a limitless love to nature and the outdoors, hiking, biking, swimming in the wilds, hunting, and I love Deserts and mountains.

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Post by dpkirchner »

Oh, so many things. Learn more about CS-y topics, play games, figure out how to write gooder, read books, bike more (I want to get to a century before I'm too old), learn to cook better, relax, probably do a couple short contracts a year to try to keep up with the industry, exercise more, volunteer.

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Post by ar_lan »

newsoundwave wrote: post #17

Me personally: I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mexico-California border to the Washington-Canada border in 2022. While I missed work on trail, it definitely made me realize that once I'm financially independent, I'm mostly going to be living a life outdoors, with occasional indoor time to play music. Your situation is a bit different from my goals, but honestly if I had that opportunity, I'd be doing my best…

I've always wanted to do this trail! How was it - honestly? I delved deep into one bagging a few years ago which brought me to ultralight groups/blogs, and this is the one trail that always just seems so... hard, but freaking cool.

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Post by dutchbrit »

If I didn’t have to work I’d be breeding rare pigeon and growing rare plants. Possibly take up watch making as a hobby. But that’s not the question you really asked haha.. I have too many side project ideas, but not many that really mean a lot to me on a personal level. If the latter doesn’t matter much, just look at what tools you use and think on how you could do a better job. What is your real goal? To make money? If so, building alone won’t get you far. There are a lot of “boring” tasks you need to do or outsource to achieve that. If making money isn’t that important it makes it a lot easier. Stick to what you enjoy.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?

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Post by dysoco »

I'm still young and don't have a lot of work-years under my belt, but I would first finish my CS degree and then maybe go to Med School and into medical research, sounds the most appealing to me right now. Education here is free but I don't know if I could keep up working fulltime and studying for so long, besides research probably doesn't pay decently at all.

Also I would try creating a startup, maybe a small gamedev company with friends or something, but I don't have any ideas atm and I'd probably need extra funding for that, so it's more unlikely.

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