I'll go nuts and get myself hospitalized in a psych ward
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
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I'm assuming money is not an option?
Learn shit. Painting class, cooking class, poetry, random community college shit. Hire a language tutor if I could. And I'd hire a personal trainer and chef, since I'd have time to try and work on myself. Maybe a coding boot camp if I can keep up, so I can come back with a whole new career. I think I'd make that my goal. Dabble in as many things as I can to see what I like. And I also just like learning random shit.
When I have three months left, I'll take a trip to visit all the places I've been interested in moving to. I'd hope to come back healthier and smarter, in some way.
I would also leave myself two weeks to just be before I had to go back to real life.
Develop my current podcast further, as well as work on at least 1 or 2 other podcast ideas I have. So many great ideas, so little time.
Ooh looks interesting, subbed!
- Do a food tour of Vietnam
- Experience more of South East Asia
- Volunteer my time at the City Mission
- Get more sleep
- Workout more
- Spend more time with the girlfriend
- Spend more time with Family
- Work on some personal Web Projects
Not in any particular order.
Sleep.
Then all the projects!!!!
Two chicks at the same time, man...
I would absolutely have a blast being a full time stay-at-home Dad. We would hit every Park, library, zoo, and aquarium within a days drive.
Then during the summer, I'd pass their kids to their grandparents house so my wife and I could find a place to SCUBA for 2 weeks straight.
- Learn how to cook fancy food
- Gym like hours a day
- Start a dinner club (my husband loves the idea)
- Pro bono tech support/advice for charitable organisations and non-profits
I kind of did this once! Essentially I got laid of from a job but happened to have a good money buffer and life was quite inexpensive at the time, so I just thought "fuck it" and went as long as I could without working, I made it about a year.
It was awesome! My mental health has never been better, I wrote most of a book, got pretty decent at Blender, started working on learning to make games... and then I had to go back to work and it all went to shit lol, that was several years ago and I haven't touched any of it since.
Prioritize exercise. Try to gear towards being able to run a marathon and doing some strength training and yoga.
Cook more for myself. I don't think I'd go full vegetarian, but I'd probably have less meat dishes overall.
Try to learn Spanish or Portuguese using one of those quick learning methods.
Take at least two cross continent trips. One would be between the two inhabited North American coasts. The second would either be Europe from Portugal to Finland, Australia, or the Americas from North to South.
Maybe live in a low cost Spanish or Portuguese speaking city for a month.