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[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago

Write, program, cook, maybe have sex

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Making furniture with woodworking or maybe kitchen utensils with blacksmithing.

I work in cloud tech. Pretty good at it.

But I feel like I should be doing something with my hands. Like woodworking or blacksmithing.

I live in a apartment so I don't have the space to even try out hobby stuff. It's also expensive to do either.

I settled for electrical stuff and bought a bunch of gear to learn soldering. Playing with breadboard is interesting but I enjoy the soldering more.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Still work but at a reduced rate and else I would actually think about volunteering or improving my living conditions like a garden or tech at gome :)

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago
[-] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago
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[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

I would become an author and write plenty of fiction, poems, short stories. I might also get into game development. And if time permits, I would even pick up on astronomy.

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.

[-] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Start painting or some shit idk

[-] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago

I don't think I'd ever leave the makerspace.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Basic needs only? Still work so I can have money to do more than just basic things.

I'd throw parties probably, but only if poverty were eliminated for everyone.

[-] die444die@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I mean I think you can still throw some parties even before then. Just keep it realistic.

[-] Norin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I teach philosophy for a living these days.

I’d probably keep doing that, but less of it.

I’d also do a lot of writing.

[-] aturtlesdream@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Run an animal sanctuary and grow lots of veggies and flowers

[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I’d be a teacher

[-] raynethackery@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Acting and singing. Studied Musical Theater in my twenties but couldn't see myself making a living at it.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Organise more and better LARPs

[-] Peasley@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

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.

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[-] tauren@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

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

[-] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 4 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] Redacted@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Streamer but in like a chill way, no subs

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I would still be programming. Just that it would be the projects I want to do, instead of the ones my employer wants to do.

[-] Portosian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

I've been using the stress of needing to do things to keep me going. Without it I can't even imagine what I'd do.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Do so much more with horses Video games Art

[-] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 1 points 5 days ago

Make video games or digital interactive art pieces for VR

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

I'd be one of those old school naturalists and just, like, go live in a swamp for three years with one pair of clothes, a cot, a journal, and a pencil.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I'd spend more time playing guitar and chess and spend more time with my son.

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

I'd make things like drones or robots or something.

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I would build affordable housing.

[-] PoorYorick@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

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.

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[-] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

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

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

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

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 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.

[-] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Kung fu, charitable volunteering, and any intellectual challenge I could take on.

[-] Hazelnutcookiez 1 points 5 days ago

play more games learn to draw maybe pick up a new language.

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 2 points 6 days ago

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

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