What would you do?

Seeing how it is approaching 2AM and I've been up trying to remember if the Little League closing ceremony is tomorrow morning or not, so I am sending text messages back and forth trying to know whether or not to set my alarm for here in four hours or not, I thought you could wait on the text with me...

As school is starting and I am looking forward to May 31st and graduation, B and I have had several talks about what would we do if we could do anything. You know, if you could go back and get a degree in something you wanted, since now you've got a degree and looked into your field and decided you didn't like it, or what would be your dream job. Stuff like that.

I've always had a huge respect for a person who could start a business, school, or service and open it to the world and make it work. I've always been impressed with that.

I think I would want to do that if I could. Obviously we are dealing in the make believe world, because I have absolutely no business sense.

But seriously, B has always wanted to open up a little coffee/bookshop combo thingy. Which would be great for me, because I would get a discount.

I, on the other hand, have several things I would love to do. Have you ever thought, "Man, I think I could do that if I just had some training and the right situation?" Well I think that about a lot of things.

I would love to own a little restaurant. You know something that would fit a niche in a corner of the market. Like Katie's in Blanket, or the Taco Villa's in West Texas, or something with a really cool atmosphere that people come to eat, but stay because the free refills and the atmosphere. A happenin' little Italian place like on Return to Me or maybe a really good Chinese place.

[Do I have any idea about the food industry? No, but I keep them in business!]

Or another thing I would do is teach. University level. Something useful. I would love to get enough of a language and try to teach it. Spend the summers taking students around the (in this case) Arab world, showing them the language and the culture…..

Or I would love to do tourism, you know, live in a place, know the people and the places and bring in people and show them the ropes and operate a tourism business....

or maybe marketing, you know build up an item and try to sell it to people by the internet or design posters or something, but NOT a salesman. I couldn't sell water to a man dying of thirst!

[Okay, the text came back, just so you know, no closing ceremony tomorrow, so sleep in!]

What would you do? Would you open a business? Would you sit on the sea shore in Italy and write children's books? Would you go to work for MI6 and be a 008 secret agent? If all else fails for me, I am going to sit in B's coffee/bookshop and drink coffee and read the latest Dan Brown novel.

But tell me, what would you do?