Very much inspired by the recent post about what anti work actually means. If you were free from the “work or starve” paradigm, what would you do with your time? No wrong answers.
Personally, I would like to spend more time outside cultivating food and fiber. (Fiber here meaning growing flax for linen, raising angora rabbits or even goats or sheep for their fiber, etc. I am big into textiles)
This is a goal I pursue even now, because my current job is high paying and 4 days a week and I want to use that relative privilege to gain skills that help my communities. Speaking of, I’m also a big fan of community organising, which is another thing I’d want to keep doing post-work.
But like I said, no wrong answers! You don’t have to have a plan for how you’d serve your community. Some of us wouldn’t. And most of us don’t have the time to even think of what we could do for our communities. For that last case, I hope this discussion can be inspiring!
I quit work at 35, am now 58. I own my own little cottage in a quite rural town and have enough income from investments in decades past to pay local taxes. I don’t get any form of welfare. My place has dozens of fruit trees and my parter loves veg gardening and cooking stuff she grows. For a time I lived in an apartment in the city, didn’t need a car and had access to everything close by, before that, we lived off grid in a little cottage in the bush for a decade.
That’s the point, I now do what ever I want. Today I am shitposting here while taking a break from reading a book on the history of my local area that I walked to ky library to get.
I have always been frugal and things I’m interested don’t need much money. I don’t have kids because of ecological reasons.
I wish I’d quit work earlier.