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Ask HN: How little work can you get away with and still have the basics?
6 by aardbei | 9 comments on Hacker News.
My goal in life is to have maximum freedom: minimal obligations, minimal stress, minimal responsibilities, while maintaining a private room to live in with basic utilities and food. Then I want to spend my life working on my own projects in my own time, on my own terms, at my own pace, in solitude. This is practically how I've lived for years under my parents' roof until recently when we were displaced. Now I want to regain what I lost. Maybe I'm greedy, spoiled, and undisciplined, but the idea of having to spend a large amount of my time and energy working in order to have these fundamental needs met is unacceptable to me. The pressure to regularly exhaust myself with financial obligations that I'm fundamentally not interested in makes it too difficult for me to live comfortably enough to comfortably pursue the things I actually care about, thus defeating the purpose of meeting those needs to begin with. I'm not convinced it is possible for me to combine "work" and "pleasure" in a way that pays the bills without making serious compromises. Realistically, what are the best options for coming as close to this ideal as possible?

My goal in life is to have maximum freedom: minimal obligations, minimal stress, minimal responsibilities, while maintaining a private room to live in with basic utilities and food. Then I want to spend my life working on my own projects in my own time, on my own terms, at my own pace, in solitude. This is practically how I've lived for years under my parents' roof until recently when we were displaced. Now I want to regain what I lost. Maybe I'm greedy, spoiled, and undisciplined, but the idea of having to spend a large amount of my time and energy working in order to have these fundamental needs met is unacceptable to me. The pressure to regularly exhaust myself with financial obligations that I'm fundamentally not interested in makes it too difficult for me to live comfortably enough to comfortably pursue the things I actually care about, thus defeating the purpose of meeting those needs to begin with. I'm not convinced it is possible for me to combine "work" and "pleasure" in a way that pays the bills without making serious compromises. Realistically, what are the best options for coming as close to this ideal as possible?