Having lived with a person through their Phd I can understand the pleasure and pain. I really can. You have mentioned 'not having a full time job'
You don't know me, but I predict global political events - Trump, Brexit, Boris' 80 seat majority, etc. One of the reasons I can do this is space. I am ostensibly retired. Covid pretty well finished off my paid income streams. I have a lot of time to think, whilst watering the garden or painting the summer house. There is a reason why monks keep bees and make liqueurs or keep physic gardens. Thinking time is valuable time, particularly in the realms of politics. It may be your destiny to merely be a thinker. You do not need to validate yourself with activity. You have proved you can think, so take up fishing or knitting so that when people ask what you do you have an answer that makes sense to them.
Having lived with a person through their Phd I can understand the pleasure and pain. I really can. You have mentioned 'not having a full time job'
You don't know me, but I predict global political events - Trump, Brexit, Boris' 80 seat majority, etc. One of the reasons I can do this is space. I am ostensibly retired. Covid pretty well finished off my paid income streams. I have a lot of time to think, whilst watering the garden or painting the summer house. There is a reason why monks keep bees and make liqueurs or keep physic gardens. Thinking time is valuable time, particularly in the realms of politics. It may be your destiny to merely be a thinker. You do not need to validate yourself with activity. You have proved you can think, so take up fishing or knitting so that when people ask what you do you have an answer that makes sense to them.