[orionspelt]

Those things you describe are jobs

Work is a term of physics; breathing is work. Eating is work.

Jobs exist because people are too lazy to do work for themselves.

What I want is no job and to work on my house, work in my food prep, work on interesting projects. Work on making the last mile stuff I need.

Work is great. Jobs are dumb.

[Scarblac]

Sometimes jobs are great streams of interesting work to do that also switch off at five.

[azangru]

You want to work on your house and prep your food? I am the complete opposite. I would rather work on building a website, and eat in a canteen, than work on my house or my food.

[orionspelt]

Reread...

> ...work on interesting projects.

Been building websites for 20 years, and writing code, studying math, building electronics since the 80s. Along with building homes from foundation up, rebuilding cars... Hedonic treadmill; individually, none of those things are enough anymore.

For me having to put so much time into riding a tightly focused job escalator is hell.

[noduerme]

I can relate to this... I've been supporting myself for 30 years building apps and websites by the hour, for hourly wages, while working on my own years and years long projects on the side which make no money. I count 8 of them which took at least a year to code, and only 2 which made a small amount of profit. But I think this is actually a pretty great arrangement. I consider myself lucky to work in a kitchen all the time and still have the spare time to try building my own restaurant. I don't look at it as getting paid to waste my time, I look at it as getting paid to improve my skills, and to see the things that other people are missing, the gaps I might be able to improve upon.

Don't tell me you don't have time to do your daily web job and also work on your house. That's a first world problem if I've ever heard one.