Do you have a post-military deam business planned?

Now that smoking weed is legal in Colorado, I was thinking that when I retire, I might open the worlds biggest Dorito store-right next to a weed store. I will have guys walking around with warm Doritos in every flavor, with fans blowing the scent of warm Doritos onto the street. Figure that in a year, could triple my retirement!
Good store placement would make for a sure thing. They toke up and then chow down.

And I would talk really really really slow, and deep-to freak people out.

Dream job would be to run a Charter Sailboat business either in the Caribbean or South Pacific. All the rum and sun you can handle.

I always wanted to open a bar that served drinks with only two ingredients (and ice could be considered an ingredient). So if you wanted straight liquor or a martini, ok. If you wanted a Long Island Slow Comfortable Screw Iced Tea, I can point you down the street. And it would have a cigar bar/humidor in the back.

Yes, I know it’s very niche.

No, I have no plans to really do it.

I'm actually in the process of possibly making it happen. OK, at least I'm taking the SBA course to learn how to get started. But, essentially, I've been doing wood burning since HS. I make plaques, boxes, etc. I've made several for PCS and retirement gifts. Each one is completely custom made. I will also make wildlife plaques. And that's all I have to say about that. :-)

Sure do. Go and build a system that crashes every other day, only works 15% of the time and does not communicate with the systems and sell it to the government. While it may sound like a failure it would be more functional than most of the systems out there right now.

Hobby store or Vintage Video Game shop. I'm already going to school for business to try and make this a reality....

Mark, if you don't have business skills, have you considered learning them? There are several courses we offer through Syracuse University and through the SBA on starting and building your business. All of them are free to veterans, transitioning military members, and in some cases family members. (There's a $75 registration fee for one of them, VWISE, but it covers two nights in a hotel that are usually over $150 per night, and that's just so people don't cancel and leave us paying for an empty room.) No GI Bill use, no tuition, no fees, nothing hidden, and a huge network of alumni.

Specifically we have:
Veterans with disabilities (Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, EBV)
Caregivers and family members (Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families, EBV-F)
Veteran women, active duty and female family members (Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship, V-WISE)
Post 9/11 veterans and military spouses (Veteran Career Transition Program, VCTP)
Transitioning service members (Operation Boots to Business: From Service to Startup, B2B)

Read more at http://vets.syr.edu/education

I am living the dream. My husband worked in the Pest Control Industry for almost 10 years by the time I separated from the service. I hated hearing the tricks of the trade and hope some business operated using "Overhead" as an excuse for the cost of some of the service tickets written. After some time away from the service and a lot of discussion, we opened up our own Pest Control Company that challenges every business model out there when it comes to the industry. I get to help out my community to even include the people that work in my very field. Crazy eh?

I'd like to make a living by creating. Writing, music, video, knives, whatever.

I think we have the same Sand Man, cause that sounds like you pulled it directly from my brain. Only difference is i would want an indoor option and a firearms shop attached.