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In recent blog posting Janet has mention how busy she has been. With this in mind I have come up with my own question of the week. I am hesitant to title it a TTMT seeing as those originate from her site, but none the less enjoy the following:
If you had unlimited resources to run the successful business of your choice what would it be, why would you choose it and what would be the best part of the job?
Bunnies4Buddha 
Leigh and I have often talked of starting a B&B. Our love for cooking and hospitality would make it fun (I think). Best part? Cooking and entertaining for a living? Also living in the mountains of NC where wew’d probably have it.
First let me state that I would be terrible, terrible, at running my own business. I just don’t have those kinds of skills. But the question presupposes that the business would be successful, so I’ll just have to imagine the I conned someone else to run the damn thing while I reap most of the profits
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I’d likely run a recording studio. I love music production and to make a business out of it would be fantastic. I love helping musicians improve their music. So I would do that job for the love of the ‘work’.
I’ve considered opening a small cafe-type restaurant. I’ve pretty much decided against it in reality, mostly because I found something else I love to do (teach) that promises to be more lucrative, but also because I worry that cooking would become less enjoyable once it was required.
But, if I knew it would be successful, that would still be my choice. I could do the fun parts of the job and leave the tedious parts to employees. Aspects I would consider fun include creating the menu and recipes, managing the employees, balancing the books, and occasionally interacting with customers. Things that wouldn’t be as fun include washing dishes and making the same foods over and over again.
Hey B4B – no fair asking questions without giving answers!
I would run a community center in our neighborhood. It would provide social service, health care and family programming for the residents. It would serve as a one-stop clearinghouse for information, referrals and much needed assistance.
I would first have to stipulate that letting an artist be in charge of the day- to-day buisness end of things is notoriously a bad plan. Most of the time we do not have the atttention span and or detail skills required. Plus it helps if you like making lists and mega-planning. So assuming I had the hyper-deranged staff needed for the enterprise.
I would have a large obscenly sucessful art gallery with enough income that I could install anything I felt like, my own art included. and since it would have rediculous income I could let any non profit use the space any time it interested me. and it would be wayyyyyyy alternative friendly! To the gills really. I’d have a cafe/reasturant that was open all night, with big tables for the wandering artists. I’d rent studio space for people who want to work in different media. a place for muscians to jam, and a whole wall for messages so artists could find each other for stuff! I’d be the Wal-mart of the art set! A supply store open all the time too, running out of paint at two am is murder! Heck I’d even install big cool sculptural stuff for kids to play on. And we’d have a section for them to try arts and crafts with a babysitting area so parents could get some good art time in without having to worry about their kids getting into trouble.so…um…yea. That’s what I’ do.
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I would like to run a nice bookstore with somewhat dim lighting and nice seating. I don’t think I’d even like to sell very many books; just have people who somehow heard of the place stop by and browse, and have the browsing as a way to start a discussion of any random subject. Then we sit in the nice cushiony chairs and just discuss whatever.
Sometimes I think it might be great fun to run a bar. I would have it in a university area that would recruit local professors to host informal scientific discussions/debates all while enjoying some good beer. However I hate the idea of sticky floors and ugly drunks.