Entrepreneur

If I start my own business, I’ll run an outdoor adventure course. Sort of like the kind that helps corporate groups practice teambuilding, except I’ll have an emphasis on survival skills, and make challenges for groups and individuals. Ropes courses, paintball, puzzles - all of it. Some activities would go year round, but I’d have seasonal activities too. Survival skills would include shelter building, farming, foraging, hunting. Probably locate in New England.

Or maybe I’ll start an inner city survival course. I’d have to hire some experts, cause my skills and experience don’t even come close to close. We could probably keep the paintball equipment. Get some wild traffic. Participants would need to pick personas, like characters in Dungeons and Dragons. I’d have a good handle on the middle class white kid living in a moderately priced neighborhood. Or a foreigner trying to find his way around. Beyond that, though, I’d rely on hired experts.

When both of those courses get rolling, I could open a suburban adventure course. Not so much survival. More of an emphasis on creating your own entertainment. Getting around without a car. Participants would make their own skate ramps, start punk bands, cruise around at night. Watch neighbors cut down trees, or whole lots of trees cleared for another housing development. Again, participants would need to pick a persona. A townie? Kid always complaining about how boring this place is, can’t wait to get out?

People would pay big bucks.