Since I retired, I have a lot of free time on my hands. And that may be great for a month or so but after that, it’s difficult for me to fight off depression. For a while, I considered opening a cat café because I wanted to see unadopted cats adopted, plus, I just like working around cats.
Well, I discarded that idea after having spent nearly $3000 to go to a coffee school in Arlington and incorporating it as an LLC, primarily because I realized how much work it was gonna be, how expensive it was gonna be, plus there’s a word of a competitor coming into town, which would steal my selling point of being the only one in town. Before you ask, no I don’t know any more information about this other cat café from Oklahoma, so don’t ask.
Now what I am trying to do is to put together an artisan woodworking shop in my apartment garage. It too, is going to require a lot of work, but in the beginning, it’ll be primarily for my learning my craft. And consequently, it’ll be giving me something to do plus a couple of furniture items out of it. There’s a lot to be done to prepare for it: degreasing and stripping the floor of the garage; Getting a new circuit added for the apartment at my expense; and figuring out a way to distribute electricity across the garage from a single outlet to multiple power tools; plus lighting, plus ventilation. And that’s before I pounded the first nail.
Still, it gives me something to occupy my mind and one day may turn into a hobby, and then later that hobby may turn into an artist in a business where I work when I feel like working or can work.