Pipe Dreams..?

aggieamber05 · September 2012

What are your pipe dreams? If you could do anything at all with your life, job wise or other...what would it be?

At this moment in time in my life, I would LOVE to open a food truck and sell cupcakes and other sweets. I love to bake, and it would be perfect. I could create my own schedule and not be confined to this little town and go where I want to, and even bring DD a bunch. I REALLY wish I had the gumption to quit my job and do that.

ETA: If anyone has any info on how to go about doing this and general costs involved, Im curious to know more.

adrianacastro08 · September 2012

I'd love to travel. I wish I could spend an entire year abroad, visiting different countries, experiencing different cultures, and of course eating delicious foods. Just got to hit that lottery

huahualove · September 2012

I would start a nonprofit organization helping neglecting and abused kids by rehabilitating them with the help of animals.

Tambcat · September 2012

I want someone from the Humane Society to call me up and say, "hey tamb! We suddenly had all this money fall into our laps, and we have a job that would be perfect for you!" Then I'd get to work around animals all day and even bring my dog to work.

jacka02 · September 2012

Ride every single major roller coaster in the world.

aggieamber05 · September 2012

huahualove:
I would start a nonprofit organization helping neglecting and abused kids by rehabilitating them with the help of animals.

That is absolutely wonderful! Great pipe dream. I feel a bit selfish in mine. Really shows your character!

MarxieVonTrapp · September 2012

Travel around the world for a year or two or three...maybe forever, with a couple of spots here and there for home base.

I'd also like to do what the donor did in Kalamazoo--the Promise. An anonymous donor (or donors) set up a fund to pay for college for kids who graduate from high school there. I can't think of anything more worthwhile than helping kids attain their dreams.

Christina_Diane · September 2012

I would love to foster and rehabilitate dogs, especially ones that are considered dangerous breeds. That obviously won't happen anytime soon with a baby and plans for more, but I would love to do it in my retirement.

I also want to go back to Spain and travel more abroad. That will wait until our kids are old enough to appreciate it.

Christina_Diane · September 2012

huahualove:
I would start a nonprofit organization helping neglecting and abused kids by rehabilitating them with the help of animals.

huahualove · September 2012

aggieamber05:
huahualove:
I would start a nonprofit organization helping neglecting and abused kids by rehabilitating them with the help of animals.

That is absolutely wonderful! Great pipe dream. I feel a bit selfish in mine. Really shows your character!

No, yours sounds awesome! Mine is kinda selfish in a way cause I love kids and animals, plus I wish there would have been something like that for me when I was a kid, and for all the kids that had it a whole lot worse than me. I just think sometimes when you trust no one at all, you can open up to an animal and start to like, love and even trust it before a human.

cbiewer · September 2012

I have always wanted a petting zoo/tourist attraction type thing. I love animals and I love to teach kids (I am a 4-H dog project leader and teach classes every monday night from feb-august). Just would be so cool. I would get all the neatest breeds. My husband plays with my imaginings too. We are both animal freaks. I just spent $40 on 16 chicken EGGS! No guarantee they will even hatch, but I have been wanting these breeds for so long and DH needed chickens that would sit on eggs and hatch them for him. It was a win-win. Plus when LO gets bigger he will have the coolest birds to show (they are blue silkies and fancy cochins).

We almost have a hobby farm as it is...

huahualove · September 2012

Christina_Diane:
I would love to foster and rehabilitate dogs, especially ones that are considered dangerous breeds. That obviously won't happen anytime soon with a baby and plans for more, but I would love to do it in my retirement.
I also want to go back to Spain and travel more abroad. That will wait until our kids are old enough to appreciate it.

Where did you go in Spain? I went there for 2 weeks with an Exchange program. I was mostly in Madrid and the Ourence (northwestern Spain). I forgot pretty much all of the Spain I knew so it is pretty sad.

Christina_Diane · September 2012

huahualove:
Christina_Diane:
I would love to foster and rehabilitate dogs, especially ones that are considered dangerous breeds. That obviously won't happen anytime soon with a baby and plans for more, but I would love to do it in my retirement.
I also want to go back to Spain and travel more abroad. That will wait until our kids are old enough to appreciate it.
Where did you go in Spain? I went there for 2 weeks with an Exchange program. I was mostly in Madrid and the Ourence (northwestern Spain). I forgot pretty much all of the Spain I knew so it is pretty sad.

I went to Barcelona for 5 days for work. It was when I was working in public relations for a high-tech PR firm. They have a huge trade show there called 3gsm. We stayed in Sitges on the water, and it was beautiful and full of history, but we le for the convention show and returned back to the hotel at god-awful hours. We only got one day of sightseeing for about 3 hours and it was after sagrada de familia was closed.

That trip was totally revved up my interest in travel. Dh has been to Italy twice and France once, so we are hoping to go in about 10-13 years. By then we will both be teachers and we want to plan a month long euro excursion.

Christina_Diane · September 2012

...or for Jake to sttn

DevonPow · September 2012

DH and I want to write a guide book that rates hotel and room service breakfasts all over the world. We are obsessed with good room service breakfast. No one would buy it, but how fun to research, right???

By the way - current frontrunner is the Waldorf Astoria (cinnamon whipped cream on their waffles is to die for) and a random little hotel in Bergen, Norway that had the best cheese selection EVER.

DevonPow · September 2012

Christina_Diane:
huahualove:
Christina_Diane:
I would love to foster and rehabilitate dogs, especially ones that are considered dangerous breeds. That obviously won't happen anytime soon with a baby and plans for more, but I would love to do it in my retirement.
I also want to go back to Spain and travel more abroad. That will wait until our kids are old enough to appreciate it.
Where did you go in Spain? I went there for 2 weeks with an Exchange program. I was mostly in Madrid and the Ourence (northwestern Spain). I forgot pretty much all of the Spain I knew so it is pretty sad.
I went to Barcelona for 5 days for work. It was when I was working in public relations for a high-tech PR firm. They have a huge trade show there called 3gsm. We stayed in Sitges on the water, and it was beautiful and full of history, but we le for the convention show and returned back to the hotel at god-awful hours. We only got one day of sightseeing for about 3 hours and it was after sagrada de familia was closed.
That trip was totally revved up my interest in travel. Dh has been to Italy twice and France once, so we are hoping to go in about 10-13 years. By then we will both be teachers and we want to plan a month long euro excursion.

I had my bag and camera stolen in Barcelona, and had a panic attack in Sagrada Familia (I am scared of heights yet always climb tall tourist attractions - very stupid of me), but still had an amazing time there. I have never been to any other part of Spain, which makes me sad.

Torani · September 2012

I would love to live in Barcelona, working in archaeoloogy.

aggieamber05 · September 2012

Torani:
I would love to live in Barcelona, working in archaeoloogy.

We might be kindred spirits. This is my other one. I got my degree in Anthropology, and would have LOVED to go all the way and use it. But its so hard with wanting family too. That would be so awesome.

Also, update, DH wont let me buy a food truck. I got a quote and everything. He's so mean.

jacka02 · September 2012

Christina_Diane:
...or for Jake to sttn

Yes Small victories.

laurack · September 2012

I also love cooking and baking, dogs and my baby. I would like to not have an office job AND for hubby to not have one either. So some kind of magical place of work where animals were welcome, I never had to be apart from my baby, and I could cook and bake at leisure while also making buckets of cash.

I'd love to be able to have as many kids as I wanted and provide for them a nice lifestyle (not have to worry about money). I'd love a big family who did all sorts of fun and crazy things together. Back country ski/snowboard trips, backpacking, flying to cool places etc.

The only way I can see mine coming true is lottery winning but I don't even do the lottery because I don't see the point since statistically I'd probably have a better chance of actually just finding huge sacks of cash in the street.

JFH2010 · September 2012

Tambcat:
I want someone from the Humane Society to call me up and say, "hey tamb! We suddenly had all this money fall into our laps, and we have a job that would be perfect for you!" Then I'd get to work around animals all day and even bring my dog to work.

Hullo, the Humane Society of the US has a great legislative department. It's not hands-on animal work and it's in DC, and I have no idea what's available, but I know that HSUS loves lawyers! And that's my sneaky way of getting you to DC.

JFH2010 · September 2012

I want to be a writer. I'm taking some concrete steps, but I'm not hopeful because I feel like paid writing jobs are dwindling. But I don't actually know that for a fact. Also, DH and I both did Peace Corps before we met, and we want to do it together in our retirement. However, we will probably never be able to retire, so there ya go.

lindy27 · September 2012

I would love to start a tour guide company for Europe. Not the traditional one, but one where you teach people how to travel by themselves using the trains/buses, eating a awesome local restaurants and staying in B&Bs.

Another option, I would love to buy a store in Vernazza, Italy and sell local lemoncello, wine and pesto to travelers.

Kdrake8 · September 2012

I would love to have a pug farm. I want to be able to take in all the homeless pugs... Help them and give them homes.
Also would love to author a popular middle school level book series. I feel that I could do this at home and therefore stay home with Mila.

R+Jamz · September 2012

I would love to move to Scotland and start or take over a small distillery, preferably one by the sea. I have this dream of living on the Scottish coast with the wind blowing, sitting on a porch looking at the sea drinking coffee or scotch. Or both.

erniebufflo · September 2012

I'm working on mine, which is to be an English professor. I would also like to do more freelance writing, but I just really don't have the time to be sending out a bunch of pitches right now.

My hubby also dreams of starting a food truck. We've got a good concept and a great name, but it will likely be a while before we start pursuing it.

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