What do you want to do, but can't? (Page 3)

If you mean lasting impulse: quit work and go to school and train full time.

If you mean transient impulses: Someone has been acting like a jerk to me.  I would like to smack him upside the head a few times!

I'd love to have a farm too.  Heck a house.  Teaching in Maryland would require me to give up triathlons and horses to afford it, plus have an hour commute each way.

anyways, I'd love to at least be able to afford my own horse again.  At approximately $1000 a month for board, shoeing, and very basic vet care, its out of my budget. 

Have you thought about moving to Tampa!?!?    We only have 1 powerlifting gym that I know of and they are too far from me.  They also only train on days and time that I cannot make.

Lol, I used to want to do this!

I commute in Houston as well, so I can totally relate.  I think what bothers me most is that I cut my commute down by about 10 miles and it still takes me the same amount of time to get home (using a different hwy)...I don't get it!

For me, I would love to change careers!  I work in HR, but would love to learn graphic design or be a personal trainer.  But, as the breadwinner that just can't happen right now.  I'd also love to be a writer.  Anything I could do from home or on a contract basis...I really just want more time at home with the kids.  I hate leaving for work at 6:30 and not getting home until after 6 pm.  I just changed jobs, so getting home around 6 pm is much better than the crazy hours at my previous job, but still....

HUH???   Where are you boarding that costs so much?  My wife keeps two horses, she boards both of them, inside stall with daily turnout, for $480.00 per month, including grain.  Even including shoes and vet bills sheis nowhere near 1000.00 per month for two horses.

Montgomery County, MD.  I paid $250 once when my horse was injured to be in a field an hour away just to be fed once a day.  She still needed shoes ($150 a month).  If I wanted to actually be able to ride, even in a ring that was lit (lets be honest, I'm not getting out there till later so I need lights, we're talking $500 bare minimum for a stall and ring in this area.  Most shoes for 4 around cost $200 in this area, and then I figure $300 a month for all vet care (worming, any emergencies). My last mare had to be retired at age 8.  After I spent $3000 on a bone scan to find out she tore her rear suspensory and had a pelvic fracture.

believe me, I've done the math.  The cheapest I could do is field board but then I'm dealing with more blankets, less time to ride (catching horse) and still paying to use the barn rings.  Most board for stall in this area is $650 a month.  In this area meaning still a 30 minute drive.

Make my brother sober & happy.

Hopefully this will change very soon - but I'd like to be able to have a job, or even just be allowed to look or apply for one.  

Wow......I'm going to show this to my wife and tell her to quit whining.  

better question is where do you live?   Seriously, my friend pays $750 at a show barn, and still gets nickeled and dimed.  $20 to hold the horse for the farrier, $30 to worm, $20 for daily blanketing, winter hay fees of $100 extra...

yep, I picked the wrong two sports to be underpaid!

I wish I had rhythm and could dance.  Singing with out making people's fillings hurt would be good too.  I would settle for dancing half decently.  I'm totally rhythm challenged.  I just don't hear a beat at all.

ETA my board is $350, trims are $50 every 7 weeks except for two rounds in the summer where I have to do shoes for the hard ground it's $125.  I figure $50/ month for vet bills on average now that my horse is retired and we're not doing anything fancy (gastroguard, Legend etc.)  That is with him living out- a stall is 450- 475 at the small barn I'm at.  Other barns around are up to 950ish (last time I looked which was a few years ago.)  Plus we had to pay a large hay surcharge this year for the drought (contract has us split hay over $6/ bale.)  Oh, blanketing is $20 in the winter and I do a joint sup that's about $20/ month.  I budget for $500 a month for one retired horse.

dam horses.  that phrase applies to just about every conversation that has to do with horses.  we're lucky enough not have to board our 3 horses.  and when i say lucky, i mean we don't have to deal with bat-chit crazy barn owners.  i haven't met one yet that isn't comletely mad.

to answer the OP's question:  tough question...there's not a whole lot i truely can't do, and i'm gratefull every day of my life for that.  there are a lot of people that are much less fortunate than me and i feel like i'm wasting the energy and ability if i don't do anything and everything i possibly can.  i always thought a cool fundraising shirt slogan for a triathlete would be, "i tri for those that can't".

I'm pretty ok with my life. I could prefer living somewhere warmer but my job isn't the easiest thing to move around with so it's a tradeoff that I'm currently willing to make.

I would rather have some magic button that made all the slackers in my family start being responsible for their finances, decisions, kids, etc so that they could stop relying on my mom so for the first time in her life she could focus on herself. It would be amazing to wake up tomorrow and find that out. 

Play the banjo.

I think my actually answer to this is: "Nothing", because I really do believe in that whole,  'if you put your mind to it....' 

But based purely on economics:

1. Build and Fly my own Airplane
2. Sail around the world with my family.

eluding to my first point though....someday these will happen!