Ask Lemmy

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.

The same life but without the pressure of a job.

Spend as much time as I could in nature or playing video games. Or playing video games while in nature. Lots of camping.

Indie game development. Except more full time instead of just on weekends like I do now.

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.

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

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.

I wish I could be a perpetual student attending college. And open a business that im passionate about.

Find a deserted corner in the Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest, likely up near Haida Gawaii, and just… vanish.

I like civilization in general for the benefits it brings. I even like a few people. But humanity in general…

I truly enjoy solitude.

Learn shit.

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

Organise more and better LARPs

Start painting or some shit idk

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.

Travel, learn culture science theologie languages and so much more, teach

Exercise, drink wine, read more, and take tons of road trips.

Write sci fi novels and take care of stray cats

Game (and probably stream myself doing so) a lot, get more exercise, volunteer a bit, probably contribute to open source projects a lot more

Write, write until I drop dead, with a smile in my face.

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

Do so much more with horses Video games Art

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.

Streamer but in like a chill way, no subs

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.

I'd make a few kids with my wife, make my private pilot license and travel the world with my family by plane (as the pilot, of course). In the meantime I build aviation related open source software.

I would make radio. I do one show a week and I sometimes struggle to find time to even prepare for that, so if time weren't an issue I'd probably end up just doing a load more.

I would find work where I enjoy myself, and get a hobby of travelling the world and documenting cultures

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.

Fish

Beat on red hot metal with a hammer, and fly hot air balloons.

So all that would change is that my basic needs would actually be met.

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

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