Depends on how you define 'job', if its something you do to make money so that you can do the thing you really want to do, no that wasn't what I was suggesting.
Engage with people outside of your Internet friends, you can do that easily at most churches, volunteers are always scarce, or with your any number of organizations in your community.
Depending on your life circumstances and the time of year you might not be in a position to live as inexpensively as you would like but the problem our author has is that he loves to figure out systems (cool) but doesn't have any meaningful systems to figure out (bad) so he's rewriting the systems he can get his hands on to burn up creative energy. And yet there are lots of broken systems that could really really use his help, and they aren't all technical.
Lets talk about Aaron Schwartz for a moment, I met him at a small conference we were both attending and I got to talk with him a bit about his aspirations for making information available. Organizing around that goal gave him tremendous focus. Our author doesn't have a mission yet, that thing he's going to do. He needs to find it, and to find it he has to stop thinking job vs recreation vs my time vs work time. He has to think, goal, requirements to achieve that goal, next one on the list. That will organize his life for him and he won't be going crazy any more.
Engage with people outside of your Internet friends, you can do that easily at most churches, volunteers are always scarce, or with your any number of organizations in your community.
Depending on your life circumstances and the time of year you might not be in a position to live as inexpensively as you would like but the problem our author has is that he loves to figure out systems (cool) but doesn't have any meaningful systems to figure out (bad) so he's rewriting the systems he can get his hands on to burn up creative energy. And yet there are lots of broken systems that could really really use his help, and they aren't all technical.
Lets talk about Aaron Schwartz for a moment, I met him at a small conference we were both attending and I got to talk with him a bit about his aspirations for making information available. Organizing around that goal gave him tremendous focus. Our author doesn't have a mission yet, that thing he's going to do. He needs to find it, and to find it he has to stop thinking job vs recreation vs my time vs work time. He has to think, goal, requirements to achieve that goal, next one on the list. That will organize his life for him and he won't be going crazy any more.