Newly single, decent job, no kids. You have to find new place to live.
Apartment, house, hitch hike cross country? Hobbies you'd pursue? Try to find a woman or many woman?
Just curious what people would do in this situation.
Gosh, you know, thinking back, I know so much more now than I did when I was single, in terms of things you could do & opportunities you could pursue. A lot of my friends did whole "hitchhike across Europe thing". I think doing a motorcycle tour of the entire U.S would be awesome, or like that one guy did, from tip to tip down to South America. Maybe be a bush pilot in Alaska because that's a crazy awesome job, or ferrying people to & from oil rigs. Or get attached as production help to a major movie (surprisingly easy if you don't mind manual labor) like LOTR & get to travel. A lot of people have done well on private boats as either crew or doing cooking.
If you're not out to take over the world as an entrepreneur or business person, and if you don't want to be a traditional wageslave (like I am now, haha!), there are so many opportunities out there. I have a buddy who quit his job & travels around the world doing photography now. I think war photography, especially filmography, would be really cool (at least if you're single!). I can't find the guy I'm thinking of who does it, but this guy came up in a search:
(text interview)
http://filmmakermagazine.com/31816-danfung-dennis-hell-and-back-again/
(video clip)
http://wardocumentaryfilms.com/afghanistan/hell-and-back-again-2/
(audio interview)
http://www.fxguide.com/therc/red_centre_050/
I'd love to have a modern food truck, like gourmet on wheels, paleo-friendly, raw vegan, something cool & interesting like that, and just travel around to different cool places like LA, San Francisco, Chicago, and NYC. Lots of interesting stories with those guys:
http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1973377,00.html
I've really enjoyed doing contract IT work in the past. It's pretty lucrative, but the hours can be mega-long if you get addicted to different projects like I do. Working in Silicon Valley as a hop-along contractor at various places would be pretty neat to do for a few years. So many neat, non-standard jobs out there if you're not tied down to a mortgage or have a family to support with weekly bills. There are people who make those things work with alternative jobs, but I've found I like the consistency of a regular 9 to 5 right now.
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