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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Work on myself for a good long while, then live a quiet happy life with some cats and, should i be so lucky, a partner i have mutual love and respect with.

See how deep the ADHD-hobby-collection rabbit hole can go 😁

[–] the_q@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Retire. Fighting my medical conditions is a full time job as it is.

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago

Write, program, cook, maybe have sex

I'd design and build useful things

[–] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Make music, check it out:

www.thassodar.com

I don't make money from it so I'd still do it even if all my needs were met.

[–] aturtlesdream@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Run an animal sanctuary and grow lots of veggies and flowers

I’d be a teacher

All I want to do in life is make music, woodworking, and gardening for food. I would do that until I expired with a smile on my face.

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

Pick up learning new languages and how to draw and make music. Create the things i think would be awesome but nobody else wants to and i cant because i dont have the money to learn efficently the skills required. Live in a nice little house in the woods with someone who loves me for who i am. Eat healthy and exercise.

[–] Cruxifux 5 points 2 days ago

Exercise, play music, go jogging around town and meet new people all the time. Basically what I do now except not having to condense it into the little time I have off.

I would walk my dog, lift weights, study foreign languages, help my community

[–] tauren@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

First year I'd definitely visit all Formula 1 Grand Prix.

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd grow food. Good food, and way more than I or my family could possibly eat. I'd also grow beautiful, ecosystem-supporting native plants. I'd offer to do the same for my neighbors who dont enjoy such things, or who just want a beautiful and functional yard.

With my leftover time i'd go hiking a couple times a week, and I'd read scientific literature when the sun goes down.

[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

This right here. While my career might be in tech, nothing ever calls me like being a proper steward of the land. You can wake up and look out and see what you did growing and becoming stronger every day. It enriches your soul.

And we aren't even talking about how you feel when you donate food to people who need it.

Build Legos and Gundam models. Finish writing my novel I keep restarting. Hold more Hunter: The Reckoning sessions for the group I Storytell for. Game, work my way through my backlog. Spend more time with my wife.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Make my pottery, dive deeper into woodworking, and learn permaculture farming.

[–] PoorYorick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Open a non-profit primitive skills school. There are several of these skills that are rapidly dying and will likely be gone within a generation.

[–] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

like what? a generation sounds a little extreme...

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Probably mostly cooking, cleaning, going on adventures with the dog, playing music, and smoking extravagant amounts of weed

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Knowing me, do what I normally do in my free time, but hopefully actually get projects done.

I'd have plenty of time to play games, watch my shows, listen to CDs/music, hopefully finish a project I started on Wattpad or another program, and spend time learning coding to help with my NeoCities site and some other projects I wanna work on but don't know enough to make become a realiety.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Go around pantsing people all day. Go so hard that it starts to feel like work. Then pants myself and end it all.

Make stuffed animals and donate them to hospitals, fire stations, and police stations

Organize town-wide scavenger hunts

Learn to cook good food and give it away to people who want some

Start a group that would teach people how to use a sewing machine.

Organize a bearded dragon rescue.

Trim people's hedges

Make videos to share all my knowledge with people for free

[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Move to Canada, Europe, or Aus/NZ.

Most likely scroll through Lemmy and play video games, pursue hobbies.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Write only free code. Right now, probably 80% of my code is free. I’d bump that up to 100%.

[–] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Peter Gibbons: I would relax... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing.

Lawrence: Well, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man.

Make music, perform music, make games, make movies, write small books and maybe draw pictures.

And then I would try out being a research attorney, being an EMT, a pilot, maybe working with NASA at some point and working for some government agency specializing in digital warfare.

People always assume if you had everything you would just sit at home and be lazy and never try anything. But from my experience you don't do that shit just because you're complacent, you do it because either you are way too stressed out to try out new stuff or you are in the middle of a depressive episode. Almost all people I know wouldn't be able to be lazy for more than 2 weeks, they would start making something.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Probably continue to work in transpiration with special needs school kids. My job isn't so much about money to me at this point I'm deeply emotionally invested.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Travel, meet with friends, play video games, watch some movies.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Study more JiuJitsu and physiotherapy for poor people.

[–] vin@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 days ago

Politics. Gotta ensure that utopia survives and expands

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Volunteer, hands down. Local community stuff, create something akin to a co-op public broadcasting channel, spend time with my animals, bake and donate goods.

[–] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You know those people who restore old machinery and equipment? Locomotives, historic warships, industrial sites and so on? I'd absolutely be dedicating my day to that. There's something so satisfying about seeing that old stuff work, but they're always chronically understaffed and struggling to keep up with everything.

Oh, and write a novel.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A podcast about the pre-columbian Americas which in all honesty would be a Hardcore History knockoff.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Just because you’re a history enthusiast doing a podcast doesn’t mean you are ripping off Dan Carlin, and that is definitely a subject he has not given a lot of attention. You should go for it! I have produced podcasts professionally on the side (I’m a producer/video editor for main job), sorry if you have any questions let me know! And no I’m not talking about how to monetize and all that garbage. If you want to do a passion project, I can give you some resource suggestions (budget friendly) so you’ll be very happy with your results.

People give people shit for starting podcasts, but the fact is it’s not very hard to get one off the ground, you don’t have to invest much, and if you really enjoy it, there’s nothing quite like it. I really value some of the relationships I’ve developed over the years

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[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While that is a nice fantasy I am unfortunately spending the grand majority of my time daily filling out job applications and watching coding tutorials at 2x speed.

Unless I receive a grant or some sort of income I can live off of up front I don't have the luxury to do a passion project at this time.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Totally understand. Hope that changes for you soon!

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