Your thoughts on my future carreer change

[sld]

How about a big country and western bar? Bet they make a decent profit. Book live music, etc...

 

[Danno1]

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Eddie,

Some of the guys have made some great suggestions. I'm not going to quote them all. However, this poked out at me:

Is running a wedding facility really your life dream?

Good luck.

MoKelly

In reading all your posts on this thread (and others too), it seems to me you like to plan and build things. All your posts here are about what you'll build and how you'll do it. Maybe you are already in your dream job?


Again:

Is running a wedding facility really your life dream?

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[Citydude]

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Eddie,

Some of the guys have made some great suggestions. I'm not going to quote them all. However, this poked out at me:







In reading all your posts on this thread (and others too), it seems to me you like to plan and build things. All your posts here are about what you'll build and how you'll do it. Maybe you are already in your dream job?


Again:





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^ I agree

 

[EddieWalker]

In reading all your posts on this thread (and others too), it seems to me you like to plan and build things. All your posts here are about what you'll build and how you'll do it. Maybe you are already in your dream job

You're right about my passion for building and creating things. I do this now for a living to some extent remodeling and building stuff for clients. When it's a job that I really like, I think that of how fortunate I am to be able to do this for a living. Then there are those jobs where it's not so much fun, or they have such bad taste that I don't want to share pics of it on FB. The joy just isn't there. Then there are also those days when it's 100 out and I need to get something done in the attic. Or it's 20 out and I need to be working outside.

There is going to be a point when I just wont be able to do these thing anymore, or not want to. My dad id 78 and he spends all day out on the tractor. My mom is 74 and she is also busy all day long. They have aches and pains, but the do it anyway because they can't sit still all day. I'm hoping that I'm the same and will be able to keep going into my 70's.

The reason for changing directions is that I think that I would enjoy building what I want to build, the way I want it to be. There is enough land and things to do that I'm hoping I can just keep making it nicer here for the rest of my life. Instead of just doing things on the land on the weekends, I could do them during the week and do the wedding thing on the weekends. I like mowing, cleaning up the brush, trimming the trees and fooling around with drainage. I don't see any end to things I could build on my trails or hidden gardens that I could create for photo ops.

If I commit to this, then there will also be the opportunities do get into other types of uses like you guys have suggested. To me, that isn't something I know anything about, but easily enough to learn.

Eddie

 

[sld]

To me, working is a means to an end: retirement!

Job satisfaction is nice but is not there all the time. I do engineering work and at times it is very satisfying. But working for a large company means that at times it is not so satisfying. Means to and end.....

I would think you could use your land to aid in your retirement. Growing and canning food, cattle, pigs, etc.... If a guy was to become pretty much self sufficient, you wouldn't need a ton of money to enjoy retirement. As a bonus, you would stay very busy keeping this operation going.

With your skills you could always cherry pick a few jobs at an older age to supplement your income. Retirement doesn't mean you can't make money.

I guess it boils down to what a guy wants from life. I don't want to be extremely wealthy. At 49 years of age I just want enough to be able to retire and do what I want. I would be perfectly happy working the land to further becoming self sufficient.

The added bonus of being close to self sufficient would be insulation from the ups and downs of the global economy and chaos. Talk about a stress reliever!

 

[newbury]

You're right about my passion for building and creating things. I do this now for a living to some extent remodeling and building stuff for clients. When it's a job that I really like, I think that of how fortunate I am to be able to do this for a living. Then there are those jobs where it's not so much fun, or they have such bad taste that I don't want to share pics of it on FB. The joy just isn't there. Then there are also those days when it's 100 out and I need to get something done in the attic. Or it's 20 out and I need to be working outside.

I think that's why it's called a job.

A job is a regular activity performed in exchange for payment.

and from etymology

job (n.) Look up job at Dictionary.com
1550s, in phrase jobbe of worke "piece of work" (contrasted with continuous labor), of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of gobbe "mass, lump" (c.1400; see gob) via sense of "a cart-load." Sense of "work done for pay" first recorded 1650s. Thieves' slang sense of "theft, robbery, a planned crime" is from 1722. Printing sense is from 1795. Slang meaning "specimen, thing, person" is from 1927.
job. (1) A low mean lucrative busy affair. (2) Petty, piddling work; a piece of chance work. [Johnson's Dictionary]
On the job "hard at work" is from 1882. Job lot is from obsolete sense of "cartload, lump," which might also ultimately be from gob. Job security attested by 1954; job description by 1920; job-sharing by 1972.

Biblical masc. proper name, from Hebrew Iyyobh, which according to some scholars is literally "hated, persecuted," from ayyabh "he was hostile to," related to ebhah "enmity." Others say it means "the penitent one."

and

Job (/ˈdʒoʊb/; Hebrew: אִיּוֹב, Modern Iyyov Tiberian ʾIyyôḇ) is the central character of the Book of Job in the Bible. Job (Arabic: أيّوب, Ayyūb‎) is considered a prophet in the Abrahamic Religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism. In rabbinical literature Iyov (אִיּוֹב). is called one of the prophets of the Gentiles.[1]

Job is presented as a good and prosperous family man who is beset with horrendous disasters that take away all that he holds dear, including his offspring, his health, and his property. He struggles to understand his situation and begins a search for the answers to his difficulties. God rewards Job's obedience during his travails and restores his health and doubles his original riches.

So like Job the character we work our butts off sometimes under conditions we don't like to double our riches. It's called retirement.

There is going to be a point when I just wont be able to do these thing anymore, or not want to. My dad id 78 and he spends all day out on the tractor. My mom is 74 and she is also busy all day long. They have aches and pains, but the do it anyway because they can't sit still all day. I'm hoping that I'm the same and will be able to keep going into my 70's.

Do not plan on "keep going into" your 70's. Look for the 90's at least. The advances in health care will probable keep a lot of us going for a long time.

The reason for changing directions is that I think that I would enjoy building what I want to build, the way I want it to be. There is enough land and things to do that I'm hoping I can just keep making it nicer here for the rest of my life. Instead of just doing things on the land on the weekends, I could do them during the week and do the wedding thing on the weekends. I like mowing, cleaning up the brush, trimming the trees and fooling around with drainage. I don't see any end to things I could build on my trails or hidden gardens that I could create for photo ops.

If I commit to this, then there will also be the opportunities do get into other types of uses like you guys have suggested. To me, that isn't something I know anything about, but easily enough to learn.

Eddie

It reads like you want to only do the "wedding thing" on weekends. I'm pretty sure a lot of the preparation and maintenance goes on during the week. The actual wedding is the tip of the iceberg.

To me, working is a means to an end: retirement!

For many of us retirement is just a change of a boss. Instead of my "Team Leader" I now answer to myself. The other boss, SWMBO, is still there.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Thinking about the Wedding business for my future means building just one large building to hold the reception in, and if it's raining, the wedding. ...

What are your thoughts? Any experience or insight? Please be as negative as you can, since that's really what I'm trying to see if this is a smart thing to do or just a distraction.

Thanks,
Eddie

Eddie,

a very good friend of mine is a professional chef and she has owned her own catering business in the past, and works part time on the weekends as a chef for a catering company. Due to being unemployed I've worked as a server a couple times.

Here is the point, if you ant to get into the wedding/event hosting business you need to be prepared to build the BEST professional kitchen possible.

Nobody really sees it, but the difference between a top class kitchen, and a lesser kitchen shows in the end product. I believe it also dictates into the price range.

Having a lovely banquet room is essential, bit if the kitchen is small, difficult to use, or marginal, it effects the event itself, which in turn effects the word of mouth...

Just my 2 cents, your mileage may vary...

David

 

[Buppies]

Eddie,

a very good friend of mine is a professional chef and she has owned her own catering business in the past, and works part time on the weekends as a chef for a catering company. Due to being unemployed I've worked as a server a couple times.

Here is the point, if you ant to get into the wedding/event hosting business you need to be prepared to build the BEST professional kitchen possible.

Nobody really sees it, but the difference between a top class kitchen, and a lesser kitchen shows in the end product. I believe it also dictates into the price range.

Having a lovely banquet room is essential, bit if the kitchen is small, difficult to use, or marginal, it effects the event itself, which in turn effects the word of mouth...

Just my 2 cents, your mileage may vary...

David

Great post and so very true. Son helps caterer in summer they are booked up thru out the year and the kitchen is very large modern and efficient

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Eddie,

Check out this place... Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

VERY NICE, awesome kitchen, lovely grounds, location close to town, etc...

They spent a ton of cash shaping it up. The husband is a PhD historian with a NUMBER of books published on the civil war (very popular here in Virginia).

I watched him humping cases of beer back and forth between locations all afternoon and evening. I finally realized he was owner when I compared his book display to the schlub running beer cases... He was working his can off...

The point about he kitchen is that the caterers will help reference sell your facility if you make their job easier.

The point about the owner working so hard is that your lively-hood will be COMPLETELY dependent upon word of mouth and earned reputation.

Not saying any of this is bad, but go in Eyes Wide Open...

Best of luck no matter what. I'm in your corner.

Be well,
David

 

[lockhaven]

My two nephews have a catering business in South Carolina. It takes awhile for the business to build up, a lot of competition. They have a large kitchen and nothing else, they handle receptions on the beach at private estates etc. The thing that helps the most is to get close to a wedding planner they would then recommend your facility to clients. It seems the people that will spend the most money on events hire someone to do the planning. The business is feast or famine sometimes several the same day then nothing for a while. I do not know about the health department in Texas but in some places they are next to impossible to satisfy, the best way is if you become friends with the inspector.