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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 jakelazaroff »

Spend more time with friends and loved ones. Work on a video game. Work on a board game. Record music. Start drawing again. Build side projects that don't seem monetizeable. Cook more ambitious meals.

There are so many things I want to do, and so little time. Whenever someone tells me that UBI would be bad because people would feel meaningless without work, I just cannot relate at all.

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

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Post by trvrsalom »

afr0ck wrote: post #10

Build a computer from scratch, both hardware and software. Build a wood house in the bush. Get better at extreme mountain biking. Build a very athletic body. Travel the world, explore their nature (deserts, saharas, mountains, safaris, etc) and eat their food. Learn to play Rock music. Learn to drift. Live as a farmer in Scotland for 1 year. Own a ranch in Texas. Hunt in North Africa. Too many things mate.

I really need to ship my mountain bike out here.

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

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Post by rsync »

Surf 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.

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

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Post by trvrsalom »

rsync wrote: post #64

Surf 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.

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

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Post by matt_heimer »

Learn a foreign language (probably Spanish), learn to draw (well), learn to play an instrument (piano then guitar), go to the gym (train for a triathlon), learn a new tech stack (android and ios for me), learn wood carving, learn Inkscape and Blender, build a social media presence, build a home workshop/maker-space.

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

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Post by trvrsalom »

bluedino wrote: post #16

Honestly, watch the kids all damn day. Maybe enroll in a couple classes or hack on a couple things here and there. Now, if I 'won the lottery', I'd have more resources and hire a nanny, giving me more time to take classes, hack on things, and do expensive stuff like build racecars.

I'm running into the issue of not having won the lottery when I think about the things I'd like to do and the cost of doing them.

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

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Post by nebula8804 »

Personally: I'd buy a house in Venice beach (on the beach). Purchase the top of the line Mac Studio + their best monitor...and I'd spend a full year sabbatical meditating and learning how to do proper software reverse engineering alternating with more and more problem sets from Project Euler. With my significantly improved programming and reversing skills, I'd then join a bunch of teams reversing all the classic games so that the code is preserved for all of eternity maybe even try my luck at improving the abysmal desktop experience on Linux(a tall order I know). After that, i'd probably spend as much time as possible meeting people in order to find someone i'd like to spend the rest of my life with.

I know its not exactly your scenario OP but if the 2-6 hrs a week are all on one day, then you could spend the other days on something that really benefits you long term. We don't know what your personal situation is like but for me(as a person in their mid 30s) I feel like focusing on personal development while also understanding how quickly youth and youth health disappears would be my top priority. That could be in the form of really mastering a skill that you will use for the rest of your life, or building personal relationships that will be with you for the long haul. Either will allow you to look back and be proud of the time you spent.

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