Teach. I already teach and I would continue to do so even if I had enough money to retire. I just love seeing young people discover the joy of programming and 3D modeling.

Free comp sci tutoring (which I often do anyway), make free courses and hold seminars, and make significant contributions to open source! That would be such fulfilling work if I didn't have to worry about money.

Grow food

Convincing whoever's in charge of checking up on that sort of thing that the world is better off if I stay inside at least 40 hours a week.

Arguing with people on lemmy, people are wrong and the internet and the world totally needs my opinions to correct them.

If the job I already do does make the world better does that count or do I need to work 80 hours a week to get something that's 'universial'

I was an Ocean Lifeguard for several years after high school. I would do go back to that. Service to others fulfills that contract to make the world a better place. I loved that job, and I know I impacted several families for the better during that time.

Probably just spend more time contributing to foss projects. Maybe write technical documentation.

Taking freely licensed photos in the summer. Open source software development in the winter.

That is just so nebulous that you could almost do anything.

I am a hobby phographer, and I consider my photos mere existance as making the world a sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiightly better place.

I won't pretend that I am amazing at photography, but some fantastic pictures would not exist without me, there would absolutely be almost identical photos in existance, but not mine.

I like driving, so I guess I could be a driver for road trips in Europe, not in a bus, but in an estate car, artisenal road trips as you say, that would provide more good to the world than me just going to road trips alone and keeping most photos to myself.

Where is the threshhold for what is considered good to get the money?

I would work as Chef in a communal restaurant where we cook the rich. Freshly served and hunted by ourselves.

To be completely honest, my life wouldn't change at all.

Picking up trash

Same thing I do now but with a fatter bank account

Same as now. My 40+ hr/wk making the world what it is, pays much better than any UBI. Until there’s a better solution for affordable housing and healthcare for my family, education for my kids, and retirement for me, I’m staying in the rat race

I'd just keep doing my job instead

I already do, I'm a teacher. But if I could do anything to get paid, I'd run free English classes and conversation clubs for refugees

• Maker space / repair cafe
• Community garden
• Picking up trash (Put on some music. Get to be outside. Allowed to trespass and get thanked for it)

How much is the UBI? Can I live off it comfortably? I'd probably contribute to society by spending the money thereby supporting the economy /s

Political organizing and education. Most problems, especially economic and societal problems are rooted in political causes: bureaucratization, consolidation of power, bottlenecking, corruption, etc.,

Only active participation in democratic organizing of mass movements along class concerns has ever been effective at combatting these social illnesses. This starts and ends with educational development. We are kept weak through confusion and ignorance; which leads to division, opportunism, fear, and alienation.

I think I'd take a few years and destroy all the "grass" lawns in the country, replacing them with native plants that don't need manual watering or chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Then I'd destroy a lot of vehicle infrastructure and replace it with high-speed train, bike, and pedestrian infrastructure. Then I'd probably just jerk off and go to concerts for the rest of my life.

I’m a mechanical engineer product designer so using that for where I can to protect coral reefs

I’d try to find ways to use my skills as an industrial engineer to help the environmental movement, possibly trying to retrain. Then I’d also spend like 10-20 hours a week recycling bicycles

I would start working on a cyclical algae production system that would work indoors and rely on renewable energy. It would need to be built somewhere with plenty of sun and water. The goal would be to produce dried compacted algae to use for fuel while being carbon negative.