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If I could I'd retire tomorrow, I have so many projects I would like to take on, I have the feeling I could fill 3 lives with them: gardening, learning math, sy

If I could I'd retire tomorrow, I have so many projects I would like to take on, I have the feeling I could fill 3 lives with them: gardening, learning math, system programming, wine tasting, carpentry, sport, traveling etc... There are *so* many interesting things to do and so little time. I guess time will tell but at the moment I have a hard time imagining myself getting bored.

leptons 9mo ago
In my old age I'm learning that this is rare. I take my projects for granted, because I guess I'm just very creative, I have way more "projects" than I have days remaining. But it seems like most people have no projects, and nothing in their lives but watching television, playing video games, or doom scrolling.
leoedin 9mo ago
Yeah, my main worry about retirement is that I’ll spend all my money on tools and projects.
- jacquesm 9mo ago
  That's going to be the main problem for me heirs: where do all the tools go :)
  - jacquesm 9mo ago
    me -> my
  - leoedin 9mo ago
    My dad has developed an unhealthy addiction to buying used agricultural equipment and machine tools. He's been busy importing them to his rural farm. I have no idea how we'll clear that up once he's gone! He's not a farmer. Just a farm tool collector.
fuzztester 9mo ago
for me, it would be bread and cheese making (easier cheese varieties), vegetable fermentation, more cooking of various cuisines including indian ones, drawing and painting, carpentry, permaculture (i did organic gardening earlier, which is a subset), wood carving (done some before), and maybe tailoring (making clothes, by hand or by sewing machine, for own use). only a few at a time, of course, maybe only two, and by rotation. and then maybe i would narrow it down to two or three for long term. would try to make money from a few of them too.
- lionkor 9mo ago
  Arguably Sergey should have just gotten into Sourdough.
  - fuzztester 9mo ago
    And Larry should have been a pageboy.
darkwater 9mo ago
Same here. It's no a big surprise that the article is addressed to CEOs which are usually the embodiment of workaholism.
abracos 9mo ago
It's about scale, when you built something as grand as google you don't want to spend time building a garden
- prawn 9mo ago
  Could at least try building a bigger garden!
- driverdan 9mo ago
  For some people that's the case. For others after working on something so large they want to do something small that is wholly theirs.
gedy 9mo ago
Not to knock you specifically, but I know a lot of people who say that they have no time for this stuff waste a ton of time watching TV and doom scrolling. I try remind myself of this with the Bukowski poem 'air and light and time and space': https://allpoetry.com/poem/14326888-air-and-light-and-time-and-space-by-Charles-Bukowski https://allpoetry.com/poem/14326888-air-and-light-and-time-a...

leptons 9mo ago

In my old age I'm learning that this is rare. I take my projects for granted, because I guess I'm just very creative, I have way more "projects" than I have days remaining. But it seems like most people have no projects, and nothing in their lives but watching television, playing video games, or doom scrolling.

leoedin 9mo ago

Yeah, my main worry about retirement is that I’ll spend all my money on tools and projects.

jacquesm 9mo ago
That's going to be the main problem for me heirs: where do all the tools go :)
- jacquesm 9mo ago
  me -> my
- leoedin 9mo ago
  My dad has developed an unhealthy addiction to buying used agricultural equipment and machine tools. He's been busy importing them to his rural farm. I have no idea how we'll clear that up once he's gone! He's not a farmer. Just a farm tool collector.

fuzztester 9mo ago

for me, it would be bread and cheese making (easier cheese varieties), vegetable fermentation, more cooking of various cuisines including indian ones, drawing and painting, carpentry, permaculture (i did organic gardening earlier, which is a subset), wood carving (done some before), and maybe tailoring (making clothes, by hand or by sewing machine, for own use). only a few at a time, of course, maybe only two, and by rotation. and then maybe i would narrow it down to two or three for long term. would try to make money from a few of them too.

lionkor 9mo ago
Arguably Sergey should have just gotten into Sourdough.
- fuzztester 9mo ago
  And Larry should have been a pageboy.

darkwater 9mo ago

Same here. It's no a big surprise that the article is addressed to CEOs which are usually the embodiment of workaholism.

abracos 9mo ago

It's about scale, when you built something as grand as google you don't want to spend time building a garden

prawn 9mo ago
Could at least try building a bigger garden!
driverdan 9mo ago
For some people that's the case. For others after working on something so large they want to do something small that is wholly theirs.

gedy 9mo ago

Not to knock you specifically, but I know a lot of people who say that they have no time for this stuff waste a ton of time watching TV and doom scrolling. I try remind myself of this with the Bukowski poem 'air and light and time and space': https://allpoetry.com/poem/14326888-air-and-light-and-time-and-space-by-Charles-Bukowski https://allpoetry.com/poem/14326888-air-and-light-and-time-a...