For fun - what’s your crazy fantasy business/work situation?

[Ginevra]

Like, not necessarily one that will ever come to be or that you could seriously make happen. But what idea do you fantasize about? 

I fantasize about having a sort of bed and breakfast on the water. Dh could captain a charter fishing boat; I would stay back at the inn with chickens, a garden, and make homemade, healthy foods for the guests. I would have a sweet sheltie-ish or border collie-ish mutt named Jewel, who hangs around; the guests would love her. Any guest who also goes out on the boat with dh can have their catch cooked up for dinner. 

🙂 What’s yours? 

[PrincessMommy]

Does it have to include a job??!!

I dream often of moving to the coast of Cornwall (or Wales or Scotland!).  Living by myself in a small cottage with my loom.  

As for job/career.  It would involve investigating old things like in History Detectives.   Or a curator at a museum.  And...I've always wished I could write a good mystery series.  Then I could live *by myself* somewhere off the coast of Cornwall (or Wales or Scotland) 🙂 

[Janeway]

I think I would be Kate Middleton. That is a job.......

[Janeway]

BUT, if it has to be a possibility, I always wanted to be a missionary running a children's home and a school. 

[Shoeless]

 

Well, I might actually try to make this happen: Making dollhouse miniatures.  

[moonflower]

Dollhouse miniatures is a thing that can happen 🙂

Mine is to transition from this business (making fabric labels, at home, DH and me, no employees currently) to a set-up where we have an office manager, several employees, and a workshop where they all work and DH just handles operations and I just handle product development (our respective favorite parts of the business).  Here is the crazy fantasy part: I would like that to happen without having to go through the intermediary period where we have to work at the shop with the employees, train them, do all the paperwork and legal stuff, wake up to an alarm every day so we can go work with them on time, spend time with other people (shudder), etc.  

I'd just like the business to go magic, poof, from this stage (at home, makes money but not a fortune, etc.) to the stage where you sit back and just do the fun parts and let it run itself.

[Carol in Cal.]

Well, there would be that fantasy big rambling old Victorian mansion, all decorated, with a mini-orchard, in cruising range of a great church.  And there would be that big cabin on the river with the ancillary buildings for DH’s and my businesses right next door.  And in addition to those businesses, there would be the capacity and a set up for serious philanthropy.  And lots of big dinner parties that are excellent and comfortable.  And the homes would be fallbacks for my extended family and some of my friends.  

[gaillardia]

Oh, you mean the one where I'm a famous artist and author and make millions of dollars and go wherever I want, whenever I want? Yes? That one? Or the one where I have a home-based business and my children work for me and it ends up being very successful and I sell it and become independently wealthy? 

[Ottakee]

I would love to turn my Blog into a book and maybe ministering to women around the country.

 

I would love to work 4 days a week as a special education floater....sorta like a substitute that goes where needed each day or various places during the day...but also gets paid a Living wage.

Or a 3-4 day a week reading specialist at the local schools for kids that need direct phonics Instruction.

Or medical social worker, parent/school/doctor liaison to help parents of special needs kiddos get the services/equipment they need and help doctors and parents each understand each other.

My best idea is to become independently wealthy so I can do all of the above but not have to worry about the finances of making it work.

Edited July 26, 2019 by Ottakee

[DawnM]

When I was younger, I wanted to be a journalist for National Geographic and travel to areas others found dangerous or not well traveled.   I think that is more of a young person's job now though and don't think I would have the stamina or the energy to do it.

I think I might like to be a college professor.  But in reality,  I don't want to have to worry about moving every few years for jobs as they make cuts, move to where the jobs are (and not where I want to live), and I don't want to do research for publishing.  I just want to teach the classes I want to teach and go home 🤣.

[marbel]

My dream job is simple, I want to work a library helping people connect with books. 

[BlsdMama]

Writing - exactly here, in this place, this life, with these people, my perfect life. ❤️ 

[purpleowl]

My crazy fantasy involves getting a PhD, research, and writing projects (some related to the PhD field and some in a different field), PLUS continuing to homeschool my kids (and doing it well), PLUS having a clean house and decent meals at home and enough sleep and time for my crafty hobbies and reading. Oh, and those writing projects would make me decent money (in reality, even if I accomplished them, I don't think the money would be very much).

I don't ask for a lot, do I? 😄

 

[PeterPan]

Work at ChickfilA 3 hours a week but have free food any day I want. 

Option B, work on a cruise ship, but I have a feeling I can't hack the rigor, low pay, etc. But hey, for the right dream job on the ship. Like ship crochet instructor. 

Edited July 26, 2019 by PeterPan

[TheReader]

I have had many over the years. 

Once upon a time, I really, really, really wanted to open a home/retreat for kids affected by AIDS, whether that be kids with AIDS, or kids with parents with AIDS, but a place where they could come be kids. Amazingly, the need for this in the US is all but disappeared (certainly a zillion times less than it was in the 80s/90s), but I'd still love to volunteer somewhere in the world where the need still looms large. 

Now I'd love to be an actual quilt designer. What I'd love to do, which isn't practical at all, is to just create custom quilts for people. So, for ex, you'd say, "Hey, I want a quilt to commemorate this event, for this person..." and we'd discuss various important things and I'd design something just for you, and you'd ooh and aah and approve the design and I'd make it for you. And of course you'd pay me an actual fair fee for this. Or, if you are a quilter, I'd design the quilt and sell you the pattern for you to make it (that would honestly be *more* my dream, because I like that part better, but if this is fantasy land, I'd be good enough at the other parts that it would be okay to to do the start-to-finish work....). 

DH's "if we win the lottery" fantasy is to buy a building to hold the homeschool coop/enrichment place where I currently teach, and set up some more permanence to things, etc. I'd be down for that, too. I absolutely love what I do, and would love to do it in a manner that my income didn't depend on # of students (DH's dream would have it so that the teachers were hired and paid from the lottery winnings, and parents would still pay tuition, but it would go into a fund and teachers would be paid a set amount regardless, more a private school style set-up for the hiring/paying but still homeschool enrichment style in the philosophy/workings of the thing.....). 

[marbel]

OK, this thread reminded me of a short-term one.  A while back a huge old estate house near me was opened up to the public for a pre-demolition sale. My daughter and I went. The house was so wonderful - as we walked through it I  kept thinking what an awesome retreat center it would be.  There were at least 10 bedrooms, and almost all had a private bath; there were a couple sets of two bedrooms that had a shared bath between them.  There were multiple large living rooms and several small, intimate sitting rooms.  Huge dining room. Enormous kitchen with two of every appliance, all commercial sized.  The grounds were beautiful; there was a pool and a tennis court, lots of trees and other plants.

It was all very outdated and run down, it would have costs millions just to fix it up. But I  kept thinking about this retreat center - which seemed like less work to me than a B&B or small hotel, with distinct groups coming in, having a set menu for me to cook, stuff like that.  Plus, I remember when looking for a retreat center for my church once, I know nice places can be hard to find. 

Of course it was a wild fantasy, completely impossible, but it was fun for a while!

Edited July 26, 2019 by marbel

[HomeAgain]

I would be a homeschool liason.  I'd meet with parents and help them come up with workable education plans for their families, have a lending library of resources, host workshops and get togethers, and help new families navigate paperwork and transitions like high school.

[elegantlion]

I would research medieval history, something I already do. It would, however, include travel to England for research, and I would just research, not teach classes. Then I would build upon that knowledge and continue to learn more languages, probably 1 a year. This is something I'm planning already as well. To my Latin and (very rusty) French, I would add Old Norse, Norwegian, German, Anglo-Saxon, and Old French. 

In addition to historical research, I would write fiction, maybe delve into historical fiction. I would definitely finish the rough drafts I have - at least a few that are worthy. 

I would live where I do now and have a retreat somewhere when I needed a break. 

[JustEm]

I don't ever have to have a job again. But my fantasy is to be a published writer.  For a long time it was really just a fantasy that I had no confidence in accomplishing.  But recently I've been seriously working towards it.  It still may never happen but at least I can say I tried.

[Wheres Toto]

11 hours ago, Quill said:

Like, not necessarily one that will ever come to be or that you could seriously make happen. But what idea do you fantasize about? 

I fantasize about having a sort of bed and breakfast on the water. Dh could captain a charter fishing boat; I would stay back at the inn with chickens, a garden, and make homemade, healthy foods for the guests. I would have a sweet sheltie-ish or border collie-ish mutt named Jewel, who hangs around; the guests would love her. Any guest who also goes out on the boat with dh can have their catch cooked up for dinner. 

🙂 What’s yours? 

Dh and I had a similar shared dream.  Dh would do fishing charters and I would run a B&B but it would also have a used bookstore.  

I also had a more personal (not shared) dream of a homeschool resource center where people could come to borrow things like microscopes, classrooms for classes, a place for homeschoolers to hang-out and be social.   And a used bookstore/curriculum exchange.

I kind of did part of that with my science center.  I teach homeschool science classes, I run hangouts and offer some other classes.  I have a bunch of books people can borrow and I do a curriculum show/sale/swap a few times a year.    I LOVE what I do but I am looking forward to the day when I might be able to have an employee or two that teach some of the classes rather than having to do them all myself.    We're getting there, maybe in another year I'll be able to hire someone.

[Momto6inIN]

I would love it if soneone paid me to:

Read books and write my opinions about them

Obsessively research and plan their vacation

Review curricula

I realize all of these are, in fact, real paying jobs for some people. The fantasy part is that I'm not interested in doing any of the intermediary steps towards acquiring any of these jobs ... I just want a job fairy to someday show up at my house and *poof* offer me the perfect position 🙂

Edited July 26, 2019 by Momto6inIN
Maybe who I really wanna be is Cathy Duffy lol

[purpleowl]

37 minutes ago, Seasider too said:

I’d like to be the coastal female version of Rick Castle. 

I think that's Jessica Fletcher.

[historically accurate]

Mine's really boring compared to you guys. I want someone to pay me to pay their bills - I love making spreadsheets, budgeting, and making it all balance. I don't love working in a corporate accounting office at all. 

@MissLemon, I build dollhouses - it's just a money sink for me though. There are a lot of wonderful artisans out there who are making some $ doing it. 

[Home'scool]

I have actually give this a lot of thought, especially when I cannot sleep at night. It helps me to quiet my mind! I have 2 ideas that I would love:

I would love to have a knitting shop that also has a great little book store attached to it. I would also have a few cats around to help contribute to an atmosphere of "come in, browse, sit down with a good book (and maybe a cat on your lap!), find something interesting".

The second idea assumes I have been bestowed with great creative talent, which I have not been. But, I envision that I live somewhere like Vermont and have a huge barn in the back that is my workshop, I would turn antique shop finds and yard sale junk into super cool, re-purposed items, like turning an old trunk into a coffee table, stuff like that. I would have a large, happy-sappy dog that followed me everywhere and when it was snowing I would light a fire and tinker away. And I would also have cats haha.

 

[PeterPan]

Good news! Now you can become a pearl specialist for free! https://www.cpaa.org/pages/tahiti-free-pearl-course  

Of course I don't know if that means you're going to sell them or BUY them, hahaha.

[Slache]

I want to run a New Orleans restaurant on the beach which will never happen for a multitude of reasons. I love homeschooling though. When I stop homeschooling I want to volunteer in NICUs and hold babies.

[BarbecueMom]

Professional organizer, but for businesses.  I can handle employees who don’t give a rats behind how I stack paper reams, but I’m not good with people and their feeeeeeeeelings.  I just want to sort and trash their stuff.

[gardenmom5]

The start up dh is part of working, so he can retire. 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Momto6inIN said:

I would love it if soneone paid me to:

Read books and write my opinions about them

Obsessively research and plan their vacation

Review curricula

I realize all of these are, in fact, real paying jobs for some people. The fantasy part is that I'm not interested in doing any of the intermediary steps towards acquiring any of these jobs ... I just want a job fairy to someday show up at my house and *poof* offer me the perfect position 🙂

I totally relate. 

I looooove to critically review books. And, of course, I love to read them. A friend of mine said I should review books for pay. And I said, “yeah, but I don’t want to constantly hustle. I don’t want to go shake the money tree all the time, trying to drum up money for what I like to do.” It’s pretty much just like you said: if a book review job dropped right in my lap, that would be great! But I don’t have the energy to go try and create a platform and such. 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, BarbecueMom said:

Professional organizer, but for businesses.  I can handle employees who don’t give a rats behind how I stack paper reams, but I’m not good with people and their feeeeeeeeelings.  I just want to sort and trash their stuff.

The part about people and their feeeelings is exactly why I am NOT a professional organizer. I could be very good at the job, but it would be really difficult for me to know what to do with the guy who likes to be surrounded by red suitcases. Or who has forty-seven spatulas. 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Where's Toto? said:

Dh and I had a similar shared dream.  Dh would do fishing charters and I would run a B&B but it would also have a used bookstore.  

I also had a more personal (not shared) dream of a homeschool resource center where people could come to borrow things like microscopes, classrooms for classes, a place for homeschoolers to hang-out and be social.   And a used bookstore/curriculum exchange.

I kind of did part of that with my science center.  I teach homeschool science classes, I run hangouts and offer some other classes.  I have a bunch of books people can borrow and I do a curriculum show/sale/swap a few times a year.    I LOVE what I do but I am looking forward to the day when I might be able to have an employee or two that teach some of the classes rather than having to do them all myself.    We're getting there, maybe in another year I'll be able to hire someone.

A friend of mine who finished homeschooling a year or two ago headed up a project like this and just opened a resource library a couple of weeks ago. There are over a thousand items in the lending library, and she is also planning to do classes like Homeschooling 101 for newbies. 

[sweet2ndchance]

8 hours ago, HomeAgain said:

I would be a homeschool liason.  I'd meet with parents and help them come up with workable education plans for their families, have a lending library of resources, host workshops and get togethers, and help new families navigate paperwork and transitions like high school.

I've daydreamed about something like this too but I can't find a workable way to make a living from doing it honestly. I know starting some kind of charter school could be an option but I don't think I could deal with the bureaucracy of starting and maintaining a charter school within the limits of the law.

I've also day dreamed about starting a cottage school that is an eclectic mix of Charlotte Mason, Montessori and classical philosophies. It would be the perfect mix of one room school house and homeschooling. Everyday would be a pleasant and peaceful day spent learning. We would have regular lessons in the morning and afternoons spent outside doing nature study and science and possibly a history lesson under a shady tree... Then I remember how hard it was to fulfill that dream everyday with just my own children. Then I remember that these fantasy children at my cottage school would have their own parents who would have their own opinion on how I should run my school even though they put their children in my school and I let them see how I ran my school before they enrolled their child. Then I remember that I hate confrontation and I would start to hate my job when it became overwhelming (which for me wouldn't take long or very many confrontations). Then I start to think that maybe I should consider other job options.... :-P

[Garga]

1.  A used bookstore in a tourist town so that people passing through would be on vacation and want to pop in and buy a book as a memento, as a gift, or as something to do in the evening while vacationing.  The store would be in a 3 story house and the bookstore would be on the first two stories.  I’d live on the top story in a tiny apartment: eat in kitchen, sitting room, bedroom, bathroom.  There would be lots of cats.

2.  Be a writer and live in a cottage by the sea.  I’d become famous by name, but most people wouldn’t know what I look like, so I could still go out and about without being bothered.  My kitchen would look out over the water (down the cliff to the ocean), and I’d have a big round table with comfy, plush chairs.  I would bake bread all day long just so the kitchen would be warm from the oven.  Maybe I’d have to sell the excess bread.  

3.  Pop in a time machine and go back to when there were real lords and ladies, and be a lady and live in a gargantuan manor house.  There would be very little to do and the biggest decision I’d have all day would be which amazing gown to wear to dinner that night.  I’d have lovely friends and we’d play card games in the evenings together and laugh a lot.  We’d be so rich that I would insist that my servants have extra time off and extra pay compared to the other manor houses.  I’d learn to draw little pictures and I’d paint them with water colors, like Beatrix Potter.  I’d have 10 kids and would play with them and hire someone else to teach them and we’d all ride horses around the grounds.  

4.  Work in a large library with lots of nooks and crannies and not have too much work to do:  just enough so that the day is full, but not so much that I’m running around and can’t enjoy my surroundings.

5.  Be a maintenance guy.  In the office when a florescent light goes out and someone says, “Call maintenance,” and maintenance shows up with a ladder and changes the bulb—I want to do that.  Putter around all day fixing things.  

6.  Buy a big house and find all the local children who are bullied at school.  All those kids could be cyberschooled and stay in my big house while their parents work.   I’d make sure they got their work done, but I wouldn’t be the one teaching them and they’d all be motivated.  They would all be so happy to be out of school that they’d hunker down and do their work without fuss.  They could each have their own room to work in, or choose to work in the same room as someone else if they became friends with someone.  After school and before their parents came by to pick them up, they’d run around outside or stay in and read books or watch movies.  Basically, they’d all be little Garga’s from when I was young and so they would be quiet children who loved reading all the time and watching musicals. 

 

The recurring theme:  books and not too much work. Lots and lots of down time.  

Edited July 27, 2019 by Garga

[Guest]

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4.  Work in a large library with lots of nooks and crannies and not have too much work to do:  just enough so that the day is full, but not so much that I’m running around and can’t enjoy my surroundings.

This made me remember another little fantasy I’ve had since I was a child. I would build a castle-like house with all sorts of unusual rooms, like hidden rooms behind a wall panel that pops out, a hidden spiral staircase leading to a tiny turret room, and a little, bitty room with a tiny door too small for most adults. And, of course, a nook bedroom beneath a staircase, like Harry Potter’s. 

Once, when I was watching a show on HGTV, the designer actually made a hidden room. The walls had elaborate paneling and ou could press on one panel and the magnetic catch would pop open, revealing a little library behind it. Oh man, I would die of joy if I ever had a room like that! 

[sweet2ndchance]

My aunt had a big Victorian era house and both the master bedroom and the bedroom next to it had walk in closets. Inside the closets was a little door, only big enough for a child or maybe a hobbit lol, but the door led into the closet  of the other room. There was also a door in the basement that was sealed with bricks behind it. Rumor had it that it was a passage way that had been used during the times of the Underground Railroad. A little bit scary (could someone still get into the passage way and break through the bricks to get into the house?!?) but so very cool for a little girl with way too much imagination who had always lived in tract houses. lol

Just some of the many reasons I would have loved to live in my aunt's house. ;-)

[Selkie]

My dream is to retire from the businesses dh and I have owned for the past thirty years, and never again have to deal with customers, employees, paperwork, or government entities. (sigh...that sounds so great)

Then I would devote myself entirely to animal rescue. I already do this to some extent, as we usually have 20-25 horses, dogs, and cats here. But I would love to double or even triple the number of horses I could take in, because there is such a great need for it.

To pay for all of this, my fantasy would have to include me finding a stash of hidden treasure, or maybe getting a huge inheritance from a distant relative I never met.🙂

 

[Garga]

1 hour ago, Quill said:

This made me remember another little fantasy I’ve had since I was a child. I would build a castle-like house with all sorts of unusual rooms, like hidden rooms behind a wall panel that pops out, a hidden spiral staircase leading to a tiny turret room, and a little, bitty room with a tiny door too small for most adults. And, of course, a nook bedroom beneath a staircase, like Harry Potter’s. 

Once, when I was watching a show on HGTV, the designer actually made a hidden room. The walls had elaborate paneling and ou could press on one panel and the magnetic catch would pop open, revealing a little library behind it. Oh man, I would die of joy if I ever had a room like that! 

 

Google for hidden rooms.  There are people who will build bookcases and such to hide a room for you.  Here’s the first one I landed on, but there are lots of websites of hidden rooms:  https://www.familyhandyman.com/smart-homeowner/10-incredible-hidden-rooms/

[Guest]

9 hours ago, Garga said:

 

Google for hidden rooms.  There are people who will build bookcases and such to hide a room for you.  Here’s the first one I landed on, but there are lots of websites of hidden rooms:  https://www.familyhandyman.com/smart-homeowner/10-incredible-hidden-rooms/

Oh my goodness! All of these are so wonderful! 

[HomeAgain]

13 hours ago, sweet2ndchance said:

 

I've also day dreamed about starting a cottage school that is an eclectic mix of Charlotte Mason, Montessori and classical philosophies. It would be the perfect mix of one room school house and homeschooling. Everyday would be a pleasant and peaceful day spent learning. We would have regular lessons in the morning and afternoons spent outside doing nature study and science and possibly a history lesson under a shady tree... Then I remember how hard it was to fulfill that dream everyday with just my own children. Then I remember that these fantasy children at my cottage school would have their own parents who would have their own opinion on how I should run my school even though they put their children in my school and I let them see how I ran my school before they enrolled their child. Then I remember that I hate confrontation and I would start to hate my job when it became overwhelming (which for me wouldn't take long or very many confrontations). Then I start to think that maybe I should consider other job options.... 😛

I almost sent my kid to a school rather like this.  Only a handful of classrooms, CM, and each day started with a gathering around the comfortable dining room tables and ended with nature study and art outside after a period for handicrafts.  Beautiful place.  There's nothing like it here in our new home.

[Jaybee]

On 7/26/2019 at 7:13 PM, Garga said:

1.  A used bookstore in a tourist town so that people passing through would be on vacation and want to pop in and buy a book as a memento, as a gift, or as something to do in the evening while vacationing.  The store would be in a 3 story house and the bookstore would be on the first two stories.  I’d live on the top story in a tiny apartment: eat in kitchen, sitting room, bedroom, bathroom.  There would be lots of cats.

2.  Be a writer and live in a cottage by the sea.  I’d become famous by name, but most people wouldn’t know what I look like, so I could still go out and about without being bothered.  My kitchen would look out over the water (down the cliff to the ocean), and I’d have a big round table with comfy, plush chairs.  I would bake bread all day long just so the kitchen would be warm from the oven.  Maybe I’d have to sell the excess bread.  

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6.  Buy a big house and find all the local children who are bullied at school.  All those kids could be cyberschooled and stay in my big house while their parents work.   I’d make sure they got their work done, but I wouldn’t be the one teaching them and they’d all be motivated.  They would all be so happy to be out of school that they’d hunker down and do their work without fuss.  They could each have their own room to work in, or choose to work in the same room as someone else if they became friends with someone.  After school and before their parents came by to pick them up, they’d run around outside or stay in and read books or watch movies.  Basically, they’d all be little Garga’s from when I was young and so they would be quiet children who loved reading all the time and watching musicals. 

 

The recurring theme:  books and not too much work. Lots and lots of down time.  

I like these parts of Garga's fantasy. With maybe only one cat or a dog or one of each (as per #1). Or I sometimes think how I would love to have a shop like in You've Got Mail, which is hard to make a viable business these days--but how I'd love to have a bookshop like that. And I wouldn't stock books that I find horrible--just favorites that I loved or influenced me in positive ways that I want to share with the world. I mean, it's a fantasy, right?, so I don't have to worry about making customers mad by refusing to order yucky books or books I didn't like/felt were a waste of time. And I could close it for a month each summer and rent that beach cottage so I could write. :)

[Garga]

On 7/27/2019 at 7:04 PM, WendyAndMilo said:

Professional boxer.

Or make a crazy successful video game and have my choice of future projects.  Working on it now...but I have a hunch you won't be seeing me anywhere in the news at any point in the near or distant future 😉 

 

The brother-in-law of my best friend works on creating video games.  Everyone who works on the game is supposed to get a percentage of the profit from the game.  A couple of years ago things got a little crazy and there was a delay in getting the employees their percentages (not sure why). 

Things dragged on for a bit while everyone sorted out exactly how to get everyone’s percentages to them.  Finally, just a couple of months ago, they got their percentage of the sales. 

The game?  Fortnite.  The total profit of that game so far?  $1.5 billion.  

The brother-in-law won’t tell anyone the exact amount that he got, but he just bought an apartment building a few weeks ago, so...

 

Maybe your game will be like that!

Edited July 28, 2019 by Garga

[Tap]

I love helping people solve problems. Not in a therapist setting, but real world problems that aren't so big that you need to hire help for, but just someone with some experience behind them, sort-of-way.  

I was just in Las Vegas helping my  DD20.  She has a disablity that makes having her hands over her head exhausting for her. She moved into military housing, and the house was less that clean. She had no idea how solve problems like getting the mineral deposit/soap scum buildup out of the shower.  She tried vinegar and a few other products but needed something a bit stronger and someone willing to expend some elbow grease. She has severe asthma so spraying it with a caustic cleaner wasn't an option.  Mission accomplished! It is bright and glossy now and she will be able to keep up with it from here.  We also fixed a broken bed frame, cleaned/tightened multiple ceiling fixtures, cleaned vents/filters, washed screens etc. 3 days of full on labor and her house now sparkles! 

I don't know how someone in wheel chair would accomplish those same tasks. That is what I would like to do.  To go help others Mama-clean a house, do some simple handyman chores and then buy a few new pretties to freshen it up when we were done.

Edited July 29, 2019 by Tap

[kiwik]

Mine requires me to win lotto first.  We live opposite an intermediate school.  I want to buy the house next door and provide free after school care and dyslexia etc tutoring, gifted classes etc.  During the day I want to have homeschool classes and maybe a set up for the last 3 years of school (that is when we get our qualifications - one each year) where the kids can attend part time, do social stuff and the main subjects which are hard to do at home because of the internal component.  I would employ myself as co-ordinator.

[SKL]

Retirement?

I would like to be a writer, but I don't feel inspired enough.

I used to want very much to work with kids, but now I think I am too old to deal with it all day, week, year long.

I dunno, there are so many things I would love to do, but I would not love to be "evaluated" for them, because that would suck the joy out of them.  Like being a musician, poet, painter, etc.

I think it might be fun to have a job on a cruise ship line or airline where I could travel all the time.  But of course the job would have to be stress-free, part-time, and physically cushy.  Like testing the ice cream dispensers to ensure the flavor is good.

[Jaybee]

I think I'm going to add being independently wealthy. 😄 I definitely need something to add order to my days (no kids homeschooling anymore, and I realized I needed the structure when I started working part-time). But I'd like for it to be on my own terms, and to be able to live where I want (which means closer to my adult kids and grandbabies). Dh would still probably work, but he might be able to choose something more volunteer rather than on somebody else's timetable. I might still have my little book shop, but hey, as long as we're dreaming, right? And then once a year, we could rent out a big place on the beach or in the mountains, and the whole family could spend some time together on our dime. Sigh. I miss my kids, and it is so much fun when everybody is together. 

[Bluegoat]

I have a few.  

One is I would like to a little CM school, maybe one at my church, or maybe one near my house.  Ideally with a trust fund that funded the student positions.

In relation to this - there is a big old lot for same up the road from me, on the intersection of a fairly main area.  This is a very working class/poor area.  I would like to take it and turn it into a little urban farm, with plots for the local people living in the buildings, and programs for youth.  There is a little building next to it that is a pool hall that would make a nice little community centre, maybe even a school.  Ad up the road is a set of greenhouses that sell plants in the Spring, I figure the owner will want to retire in a few years and I'd buy that as well.  It could be part of my urban farm/school complex as well.

There is also a pub at the end of my street I'd like to buy, and improve the food (still cheap but better), and brew some cask beers to sell.  One part of it was a soda parlour when I was little and I'd like to return it to ice cream and tea.  I'd call it "The xxxland Ice-Cream and Tea Society".  I might call the pub The Goose.  My great grandfather had a pub called The Swan but we do't have many of those here.

[MaBelle]

A Ghostbuster or backup singer for the Eagles.  Even though they are no longer the Eagles.

[lopitosit]

I work in app deveopment company which provides  offshore software development services and most of our client are from USA. 

And there is something strange with georaphy in this country, no one knows countries from eastern europe. We situated in Ukraine and our client ordered an app. But he thought that we are situted in africa and he wanted to visit us. That was very funny to explain him the difference between Ukraine and Uganda)