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edit: “not work” as in “food, housing, and healthcare needs are met,” not as in “billionaire super-villain money”
I would sail sail the great lakes for weeks at a time.
I would write more music, and hire musicians to play it with me.
I would spend half the summer growing food (which I already do!)
I would continue to invest in my own mental health, but spend more time meditating.
I have chronic fatigue (to simplify a longer story), and spending that precious energy solving logic puzzles for a paycheck is sometimes pretty demoralizing.
Begin to develop and publish cost efficient free open source designs for scientific laboratory equipment that can be made by anybody, so that scientific laboratories are able to do science without spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on a machine that rocks left and right or shakes in a circle.
Not have to work for money as in infinite money?
Probably accidentally kill myself within a year from stupidity by having access to effectively anything I want
sorry, I mean, if you didn’t have to worry about food, housing, healthcare. I just edited the title to reflect that.
In the original thread you didn’t have infinite money, just the basics (food, housing, healthcare).
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Probably focus “full time” on indie gamedev.
This is my answer as well. It sucks that I can only work on my game on weekends and holidays while the rest of my life is wasted on boring business bullshit that nobody cares about.
Make music. Travel, if money isn’t an issue.
I would spend the entirety of my time being creative and working on art
Tabletop gaming and things adjacent. I primarily love three RPGs, but I also like board games. Also enjoy doing campaign prep, writing software utilities, 3d printing, and other arts and crafts type things related to tabletop gaming.
I like PC games, too, but seldom play them anymore. My reflexes are slower now, and I miss hanging with friends IRL. If I didn’t have to work, I’d probably catch up on some of the backlog of older games.
I also feel like most new big publisher PC games kind of suck and are formulaic money grabs. But every now and then a real indy gem comes out, and I get hooked for a little while.
We should hang out once we don’t have to work anymore.
Let’s do it! I can’t wait for 2054!
Shit. That date sounds a little optimistic. I’ll only be 72 by then, that’s just barely over halfway to Millennial retirement age!
Upskill to improve the world significantly.
My summers are free and i always make big plans to learn new things but i mostly just fuck off and fret that i only have x more days. During covid i volunteered at the local food bank in the summer. I should do more of that. Also, there are kids who don’t get regular meals when school is out. I would like to work with the organization that addresses that.
Got big piles of books, games, shows, and at least one unstarted but have all the stuff project I’d knock out. After all that? Prob a lot of self work and maybe give herb gardening a go.
I would mostly do more of what I am already doing, spending as much time as possible surrounded by nature, for me personally — woods. Or, riding my bike even more… Learning and reading even more, plus programming level 9000 on the side.
I could visit Iceland and Japan without overthinking it too much…
Oh! If this “needs are met” applies to others too, then I could spend more time with people that are now grinding hard all this working or parenting life. If it doesn’t apply — then I could try to do my best that it would.
Learn new languages and skills and volunteer
What I do now, except I’d have more than tiny slices of time and energy to do it
When I retire I want to hike and camp, cook really nice meals, grow a garden, and make hot rods.
Still pursue a career in fundamental research, but without burning myself out working nights to survive while finish my degree. After already being diagnosed without burnout.
