What would you do if you didnt HAVE to do anything?

also (not sure where) but return to some of the summer fun i had with my cousins on Lake Chautauqua when i was 9 - 12

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Peen Simmons said:
I’d get a lot more music stuff done. If we’re talking that I currently make what I’m making now adjusted annually for inflation without having to work, I’d likely spend a fair amount of time abroad living in different places for long stretches of time.

I’d also likely wind up taking a part-time job in a bar, restaurant, or retail just for something to do. I get bored easily and require context/experience/social interaction for various creative and intellectual processes to keep going so I’d likely need to give myself a little reason to leave the house and do some minor toil.
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It takes a certain personality to be able to retire early and just recreate, absent purpose. I've watched several family members go into retirement with plans for a life of leisure only to find they wind up craving some sense purpose. Some found purpose in becoming full time caregivers to grand kids. Some took on jobs in an area of recreational interest. Some went back part time to their former career.

My FIL is in this odd place where he has zero interest in a job but his only recreation/hobby is classic cars. He has several rental properties that all pretty much run themselves. If there's not a car show to go to or some parts to hunt down, he makes a half dozen runs to Tim's for coffee every day out of boredom.
 
Lerxst said:
It takes a certain personality to be able to retire early and just recreate, absent purpose. I've watched several family members go into retirement with plans for a life of leisure only to find they wind up craving some sense purpose. Some found purpose in becoming full time caregivers to grand kids. Some took on jobs in an area of recreational interest. Some went back part time to their former career.

My FIL is in this odd place where he has zero interest in a job but his only recreation/hobby is classic cars. He has several rental properties that all pretty much run themselves. If there's not a car show to go to or some parts to hunt down, he makes a half dozen runs to Tim's for coffee every day out of boredom.
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I'm definitely one of those who can just sit and do nothing. It kinda runs in the family on my dad's side. My dad is retired and 89 and his activity pretty much consists of going to breakfast 5 days a week and most of them are by himself but ocasionally he'll meet an old work friend and once a week he goes out with this couple he's known for a long time. he always complains how John (one of the couple) can'never sit still" and is always in a hurry to go somewhere do something and my dad just wants to sit there and drink coffee :embarrassed: he calls john "antsy"

Myself is perfectly content to sit and do nothing. I think the fact that io can go camping by myself and have tons of times should tell you all you need to know :embarrassed:
 
I could very happily just "putter around" with various hobby project whims pretty much forever. I can't really sit and do nothing, but I also find that I don't really need some larger purpose to be content.
 
Well, I am just about there. I do some music, but have been doing digital art, creating a deck of oracle cards with a companion guidebook, working on some short stories, hosting the TV show, and contemplating filming and putting together a documentary on the four Western Massachusetts towns that were closed and flooded to build a reservoir to provide drinking water for Boston...

The five to ten hours of counseling I do doesn't take much time, and I enjoy doing it. So it is a nice life.
 
Set up a mobile studio in an RV or bus and travel around to music festivals to record the type of random jams that happen late night.
 
Chad said:
That’s my dream, but have a third section for an old man skatepark.
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on my way to rehearsal i drive past an old venue that is now vacant. its actually big enough to have the venue and some rooms for recording. I called a realtor once, he said he thought 75k would take it but it needs work. its def not in the best area obviously for that price. lots of times i think i should try to buy it but most of the time the pessimist in me says I would just lose everything. we lost a few venues during covid though and there really aren't places you can record here either. i just know my wife wouldn't be pumped about me being gone all the time.
 
Lerxst said:
It takes a certain personality to be able to retire early and just recreate, absent purpose. I've watched several family members go into retirement with plans for a life of leisure only to find they wind up craving some sense purpose. Some found purpose in becoming full time caregivers to grand kids. Some took on jobs in an area of recreational interest. Some went back part time to their former career.

My FIL is in this odd place where he has zero interest in a job but his only recreation/hobby is classic cars. He has several rental properties that all pretty much run themselves. If there's not a car show to go to or some parts to hunt down, he makes a half dozen runs to Tim's for coffee every day out of boredom.
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My maintenance guy at work was an electrician for 25 years and then worked for an alarm company for like 10 and then retired. He had been retired for 4 months when I hired him. He said "I can only surf so much and I've finished all of my home projects. I can't just be sitting around"
He's an animal. Constantly moving, working on projects at our buildings and when he goes home he builds outdoor showers that look like a surf board to put out by people's pool. He will never truly retire.

Me? I can stare at a wall for hours lost in thought. I rarely get bored.
 
I would build a little off grid cabin on some wooded acreage my folks own near Raystown lake and clear out enough area to back my truck in there with the boat attached. Then during the summer, I’d take the family there for a few days each week, probably weekdays when the lakes not busy, and we’d go waterskiing and swimming and whatnot. If we got bored with that, we could canoe the Juniata river and fish, or go hiking, or mountain biking, etc. On the weekends we would be back home and have a standing Saturday BBQ for some close friends at our pool (gonna need to get a pool)
That would be good for the summer while the kids are out of school. In the winter I’d do more woodworking, lots of winter hiking, and get involved in every stupid bake sale etc for the kids’ school

year round Id get lots of exercise and cook good healthy meals. I love doing both but often don’t have time

And get into a band again

I think I could be pretty content with that for the next however many years
 
sleewell said:
on my way to rehearsal i drive past an old venue that is now vacant. its actually big enough to have the venue and some rooms for recording. I called a realtor once, he said he thought 75k would take it but it needs work. its def not in the best area obviously for that price. lots of times i think i should try to buy it but most of the time the pessimist in me says I would just lose everything. we lost a few venues during covid though and there really aren't places you can record here either. i just know my wife wouldn't be pumped about me being gone all the time.
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A guy I know was a sound guy for a long time and basically ran a venue. Got tired of their BS. He and a couple buddies decided to open a new place. They started renovating a new place right as covid hit. It was tough but they were able to make it work. Played there for the first time last week. Bar restaurant kind of thing. They had to be flexible and ended up doing more food than they originally planned but they made it work. He’s about to get started on a new larger place that will be a more focused venue. They do most of the work themselves to keep costs down. No kids. He is gone all the time.
 
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