Buying My Time Back

When I think about my motivation for wanting to earn a living online it’s a pretty simple answer for me – freedom. I want to be able to do what I want, when I want. At the moment, travelling is what I want to do. Two years from now it could be a different story. I might want to settle somewhere and pursue other interests. Such as…

  • Art – I used to draw and paint portraits when I was younger. Mainly sports art but I also did portraits of friends and family and stuff as gifts. I’d love to get back into this and spend more time being all artsy fartsy.
  • Music – I’d also love to learn how to play guitar. I’m pretty sure I’m tone deaf (except when I’m singing in the shower) so this might be totally impossible but I won’t know until I try. Or I could just take the guitar with me into the shower where I will no doubt become a rock god.
  • Photography – I was always convinced that the only way to take a really great photo was to have a really great camera. Now that I’ve got one of those fancy pants SLR things I have realised that I am, in fact, just a crap photographer. I really should read the instruction manual.
  • Languages – I’ve been threatening for years to learn a language. I guess this sort of goes hand in hand with travel since it’s better to be surrounded by the language than to be sitting in a classroom 3 hours a week. I’d really love to head off to some random place like Yemen and learn Arabic. Yemen… yeah man!
  • Study – I’d also love to spend some time honing my web skills in a real, live school. So far I’ve pretty much stumbled and bumbled my way through everything by trial and error. I don’t think I’ve even read a single book the whole time. I’d be really interested in taking an actual web design course and maybe, if I’m feeling brave and brainy, some PHP or programming stuff.

So I’m definitely not after money for money’s sake. I want to buy back my time and be able to pursue pretty much anything that happens to capture my imagination at the time. If I decide one day that I want to join the circus then, damnit, I’m going to join!

What sorts of passions other than travel would you pursue if you found yourself with loads of time on your hands?

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