> Free to do what? Sit on a beach, apparently.

Quite the opposite for me. I'd like to have freedom to work on things I want to work on without "paying rent", "paying medical bills", or "short term profitability" being a constraint.

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dlcarrier 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I went the lean FIRE route, and now work on whatever open-source projects I feel like, plus local in-person volunteer activities. It's a much better quality of life, even though my job had been enjoyable, the extra scheduling flexibility is really nice.

	▲	mathgladiator 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Me too. It has been great. Im working on projects that are fundable, and now I have joy from it (did go through a lonely pity party phase).

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entropicdrifter 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, I'm a musician and a certified audio engineer. I'd rather be writing and recording music than working for healthcare/mortgage costs

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TremendousJudge 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yeah, but the guys selling the courses were/are all obsessed with being at the beach

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bluefirebrand 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm pretty sure that being at the beach is really just universal marketing shorthand for "being somewhere that no one would ever expect you to even reply to emails from"

	▲	aianus 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Working from the beach is much more enjoyable than working from a cubicle in Toronto in January all work tasks being equal. Much cheaper too, ridiculously enough.
	▲	bawolff 41 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Or more generally, just doing whatever you want. I dont think anyone literally wanted to sit on a beach 24/7 365 days a year. However plenty of people would want the ability to just wake up one day and on a whim fly to a hawaii until they get bored then fly somewhere else.