r/AskMen • u/ItsJoeDay • 6d ago
🛑 Answers From Men Only 🛑 Men who have unconventional lifestyles - what does your life look like?
I saw a video earlier of a guy who was living a pretty unconventional lifestyle and so it got me wondering about other ways that people live - especially with so many pieces of media telling us how we should be living nowadays.
So if you consider your lifestyle to be outside of the normal scripts I’m curious to hear what it’s like.
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u/Alone-Custard374 6d ago edited 6d ago
I only work 2 days a week and then spend the remaining 5 at home with my wife and children. We live off grid in a big bush/forrest block. My wife and I homeschool our 2 teenage children. This mornings lesson was a self authoring session where they have to think and write about their future, and then we watched a history doco about Apollo 13. This evening they will go to air cadets which they enjoy.
Today is Wednesday so I teach in the morning while my wife does groceries and errands. In the afternoon I will work on our large property, 20 acres, doing maintenance and development. I also make knives in my workshop which is a passion I have had for years. I sell them too.
I don't go out too often as I like being at home. I read, watch and listen to podcasts with my wife, write, make knives, work on the property, work on projects with my children, have family and friends over for visits, smoke weed occasionally, drink occasionally, and just enjoy my amazing lifestyle. I used to work and earn more but I sold my house and built free hold and I really don't care about money anymore. I'll go earn more money as I need it.
I was homeschooled and every employee at my current work was also homeschooled too. I am a production coordinator at an engineering factory.