I would like to own a franchise of video game arcades which would host the classics and retro titles, from the earliest games until the nineties lazer disc shooting gallery titels, it'd have all the standard cabinets but also, as I say the shooting gallery ones, the punch out style boxing ones, mechanical bull horns one (it was a strength arcade kind of like the arm wrestling ones) and each would have a small juice or espresso counter. I think I'd call them the penny arcade but I dont know, the point anyway would be that these arcades would no charge the inflated prices I've seen more recent arcades charge, they'd not feature the X Box or other titles which you may aswell play at home, although there may be some games like the air ace simulators or rambo shooter which I'd include at the cheaper rate to play too. The idea is that it'd be about fun as much a turning a damn profit, I dont know when or why the same sorts of experiences leaped from twenty pence to a full pound.
I'd also thought about maybe having a section in them which you paid for an hour and all the cabinets were set to free play, having record attempts, tournaments and kids free nights.
Besides that I've always had an idea about some sort of unsocial hours coffee shop, it could serve alcoholic beverages, like irish, baileys, scotch, calypso coffees or a total of two craft beers, circulated fairly frequently.
I also like the idea, which I'd read about working in parts of Russia, of a coffee shop or desserts cafe in which you pay for time or a table and you can bring whatever beverages you want, eat as much of the food, ie cakes or whatever, which are replenished by the staff in the time you paid for.
Anyway, those are sort of ideas about sharing interests or passions, in most cases I'd want to be a silent partner or owners as opposed to manager.
For me the ideal job wouldnt be a single job, I like Marx's idea about doing one thing in the morning, another by lunch and something altogether different in the evening, as you choose. Splitting my job between two or more locations, splitting my day even maybe, meeting as many different people as possible but being able to be task centred as opposed to having to deal with a lot of politiking or plotting or scheming. I'd also like to split my week between work and skills training, real skills training, not some mindfulness bullshit but learning joinery, plumbing, electrician, programming or engineering skills. Combine that with some sort of physical training aspect and that's the dream.
In many ways its the life I imagine the independently wealthy live.
