<i>...people ask these questions and tend to assume that all answers are supposed to be about some personal passion for making the world a better place. The assumption is that no one is going to honestly answer "Are you kidding? If I didn't have to work for a living, I would just play video games all fucking day."</i><p><a href="http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/10/ancient-wisdom-tells-us-idle-hands-are.html" rel="nofollow">http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/10/ancient-wisd...</a>
Four things:<p>1. Spend more time with my family.<p>2. Work on getting more healthy.<p>3. Help folks coming out of incarceration learn how to get on their feet, and thrive.<p>4. Study foreign languages.
The past few years I've deliberately tried to design the way I work in a way I like what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. I could still do better but I'm quite happy with my progress so far.<p>Therefore it wouldn't change all that much in that case. I'd still be teaching, creating products and solving problems.
Right now now I'll do exactly the same - I work from home technical lead in security/sysadmin space for a big telco,
(also have a side project generating more money than my salary and growing). The main reason I won't quit my job is the team I am managing and the kids are still at home... in few years when they move out, I am thinking about buying a million dollar sailboat and travel the world for a decade or so and chose a please to "retire" to...
Honestly, I'd be making videogames.
No time pressure, no pressure to get anything done, just making them, maybe polishing them as well if I feel like it :)
Maybe go on a hike with nothing but the stuff I need to survive, and pencil and paper.
Then repeat it with my girlfriend and her dog.
And move to the seaside somewhere warm - I can't stand the winter.
Be an old man, I guess^^