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Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
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#82Exercise more. Spend more time with my family. Hike the back country of a few more national parks. Hunt more. Fish more. Get a PhD in CS. Find an open source project to be passionate about and work on that.
Not necessarily things that can fit in 8 months, but my short list of things I'd do if I had the time.
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#83Write. I would investigate things that interest me, especially historical/little/less known things, and bring them to a wider audience.
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#84I would do things people usually call work, the way I want them to be done, in my own schedule.
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#86Context: 40s male who has $wifie and $son. Has some programming skills, half education and half self-taught.
I'll probably do the following if I only need to work 2-6 hours per week:
- Take nap to balance chronic sleep deprivation since $son is allocated;
- Go back to exercise routine to pick up my two 30m of rowing machine every day;
- Spend one more hour with $son every day;
- Plan more gift purchase for $wifie. It actually requires a lot of thoughts;
- Complete my Dragonlance game which is a Ultima-I/II spinoff;
- Complete my CHIP-8 emulator;
- Get serious about designing a series of lab similar to the CPU project of UTokyo, but tailored to my incompetence and steadily increase difficulty with each one. I probably need 3 labs;
- Visit my friends more often. I only spoke to them once per quarter.
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#87I only work a few hours a week at the moment (by choice)
The real challenge is staying off your phone. Be disciplined about addictive screen use. Then you'll get bored and think of good things to do. Allowing yourself to get bored is the important thing.
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#88Play piano, write music and learn more musical instruments. As a side effect, I would actually get 8 hours of sleep per night as I wouldn't have to fit my unprofitable interests in after 8 hours of work.
I would probably continue to develop, but only to scratch my own itches. Most likely musical tools that don't currently exist.
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#89I quit my development job to drive from Alaska to Argentina - an adventure that changed my life. I poked lava with a stick, climbed a 5,897m active volcano, watched kids ride llamas to school, learned Spanish, vastly improved my photography, got into writing (and later published books). Now it's my life, and I've since driven right around Africa, and right around Australia. I'm saving and planning for then next one n…
I read this and wondered "how many other people could be out there that fit this description besides the road-chose-me guy?"
Sure enough -- it's the road-chose-me guy xD
Re: Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't have to work?
#90You will always have to work - you need to feed yourself, clothe yourself, shelter yourself, etc. How you go about doing all of that is what matters. With that in mind, I think you;re asking "What would I do if I didn't have to have a job," which is a more interesting question. I would find people in my community to band together to help us build and maintain our community - helping maintain each other's home, build…
> You will always have to work - you need to feed yourself, clothe yourself, shelter yourself, etc. How you go about doing all of that is what matters.
Did you read the post? The person has 6-7 months coming up where they will have a job but only have to work 2-6 hours per week.