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Organise more and better LARPs

I would take classes for stuff that actually interests me. And spend more time on hobbies. It's pretty obvious to me honestly. I don't understand how people get depressed and bored when they retire. It actually makes no sense to me. It's super common too. People feel like they "have no purpose" and absolutely crumble in retirement. It blows my mind. I feel like those people are super fucking boring and have no interests.

Continue to work and fuck over poor people is very popular.

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

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.

Learn shit.

Write sci fi novels and take care of stray cats

Become a blacksmith. I'd make all sorts of things.

And a welder. And a tool and die man.

I'd work with metal. And at some point I'd make a point to learn glass blowing because it's cool.

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'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.

I'm there. I'm hanging out with friends, spending time in nature, I have a few hobbies, and the rest of the time I'm summoning the wrath of the gods and goddesses to smite the corrupt powers of the world.

So, I'm pretty content.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The same life but without the pressure of a job.

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

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

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

Metal, leather and wood working. Bee keeping and running a little shop

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

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

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.

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.

Fish

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.

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.

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

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

Do so much more with horses Video games Art

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.