• Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    I’ve been unemployed for the last few months. I’m single, no kids. I’ve had more of these 24 hrs of uninterrupted free time than I’d care for. Honestly, sounds wild, but I hate it now.

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      5 months ago

      I’ve been in that situation. At first it’s kinda nice being able to sleep in without worry for a little bit. But after a while it really starts to drive you crazy just not having anything to do with your time. That restlessness quickly turns into depression.

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      5 months ago

      I was out for ~6 months a while back. I put a schedule on my calendar, so every day had some structure. Get up at 8 or 9, breakfast, practice an instrument, game time, lunch, write applications, gym, dinner.

      Did the same through the lockdowns and some structure really helps.

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        5 months ago

        Agreed. I was doing pretty well the first 2 months or so, but I crashed into a bit of a delayed depressive episode over it all the last month. I’ll get sick of my own moping and wrangle myself again soon.

    • bpt11@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      5 months ago

      I’ve been unemployed for around six months, that’s actually part of why I asked is to see what other people do with so much free time.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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        5 months ago

        New skills? I spend my free time contributing to FOSS projects to pick up new things, or learning CAD, or soldering, on and on. Always been pretty good at filling my time, just need to learn the relaxing part.

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      5 months ago

      yep. anyone that doesn’t say recuperate already has enough free time to do whatever it is they’re responding to this thread with.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    What would I want to do?

    • Cut down the 2 larger trees and 10 mini trees (originally hedges) that we marked for removal

    • deep clean the house

    • climb in the crawlspace and drill the pipe brackets I need to

    • finally go weightlifting after months of no time or willpower

    • play saxophone

    • meditate

    • go for a long run

    • play with my dog and go adventuring for an hour or 2

    • cook a new meal I haven’t tried before

    • watch a movie with my girlfriend

    • take an edible

    • play some games with the boys

    What would I likely do?

    • sleep

    • mow the grass and rake leaves

    • play rimworld

    • watch Castle with my girlfriend

    • eat leftovers

  • Fleppensteyn@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    Just lost my job so I have this time. I want to travel a bit later, but until I can leave, I’m doing nothing at all. Years of fulltime work just killed off all social life, any motivation. Now that I’m finally free, I feel so dead inside that I just want to do absolutely nothing for a while.

  • Ballissle@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    Finally finish my first baldurs gate 3 playthrough. And spend the rest of the time achievement hunting by going back through my save states.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    I go camping for an additional night. I already planned to bike and camp to the closest national park one last time before winter, this weekend, but I would gladly add one night to the trip and go right now instead of tomorrow.