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| d-miurge |
| Travelling around the world djing/playing live. Of course a lot of sex with swedish/italian supermodels. The end. |
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| kthnxbye |
5 yrs: hoping to be almost done with my Mech Eng degree but dunno if that will happen.
10yrs: hmm...this is quite hard. life hasnt been easy for me. lots of bumps in the road. i should have an established career by then. own a house. possibly married. maybe kids maybe not. |
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| CranberryJuice |
5 years : hopefully done with studying
10 years :i'll be 31 ( a bit scary when i think of it )
no clue where i'll be at this time
even if i study and my dream goal is to make a good career i still have this feeling of having an unconventionnal life
who knows maybe i'll give up everything and just work in a third world country or ....live in some paradise coconuts islands
and settling down with someone the life most people have....i cant say this idea really attracts me
:p
but hopefully i will still be with my boyfriend |
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| djsphere |
i'm gonna graduate this summer.
i already have a job for almost a year now in my specialization area so things are looking good regarding my career i guess.
in five years i'll be 27, hopefully not married but in a serious relationship. also living alone or with my gf.
10 yeas is a bit too long to look ahead.
ok, now that's what a normal person would say, but i'm not normal so i really don't know where i'm gonna be in the future it depends of what's in my head at the moment. in the past few months i've been considering the french legion. |
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| Arbiter |
| If I could give an honest answer I think that it would mean that I'm living a pretty boring life, quite frankly. I don't want a life that follows a script, or is predictable. |
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| AndreaCKY772 |
in 5 years...
a) finished with graduate school
b) accomplished my goal of FLUENTLY speaking japanese
c) with the same boyfriend i have now
d) HOPEFULLY no kids yet... |
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| lücid |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
If I could give an honest answer I think that it would mean that I'm living a pretty boring life, quite frankly. I don't want a life that follows a script, or is predictable. |
well put.
i used to think a predictable life was good, but i realized how godawfully boring that would be if i knew exactly where i'd be in 5-10 years. i really don't have any definitive "plans" for my life other than having fun, travelling, and eventually leaving Wisconsin and going somewhere new. beyond that, i look forward to the surprises that life will bring my way. |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
If I could give an honest answer I think that it would mean that I'm living a pretty boring life, quite frankly. I don't want a life that follows a script, or is predictable. |
what a cynic... whats wrong with planning out ur life a bit? to me it doesnt sound so bad, as long as ur dont allow room to breath..
for expample.. i know iw ant to be working in a nonprofit organization somewhere in latin america in 10 years... and hopefully im working towards that goal |
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| Frenchie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
If I could give an honest answer I think that it would mean that I'm living a pretty boring life, quite frankly. I don't want a life that follows a script, or is predictable. |
True. But like I said , all of what I said could change within 1 or 2 or 5 years, I mean nothing is set in stone. I'm still growing and learning everyday. I just have goals as to what I would want to do and accomplish. |
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| weymouth |
5 years - Less fun and more responsibility
10 years - No fun and even more responsibility |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by Frenchie
True. But like I said , all of what I said could change within 1 or 2 or 5 years, I mean nothing is set in stone. I'm still growing and learning everyday. I just have goals as to what I would want to do and accomplish. |
I understand where you're coming from. I used to have more specific goals with what I wanted to do in the future but looking back at my life up to this point it seems like it was so naive, thinking that in 5 or 10 years I wasn't going to change. But I did change, and the goals I had before were things I no longer wanted to pursue.
Now, I really value my own personal change - every year and sometimes even more frequently I spontaneously decide to do something major that's completely new and I get a whole new set of perspectives and experiences along with that. It's really wonderful, it's like living life in three dimensions versus living life in two dimensions when you're really only exploring one path, one set of goals and ideas. I could never go back to the one-track mindset that most people seem to have where they have like a career path they've planned their whole life around or like saying what kind of relationship they want to be in within so many years.
I don't ever want to stop changing, but I know that it makes no sense to make a 5-year plan when in nine months I'm gonna change and want to make a different plan. So I have goals and I make plans, but I just keep them in a much shorter time frame. It works out better that way, for me anyway. Maybe other people really like the whole planned life thing, I don't know, people are different so maybe that's the ticket for some people. But I mean no offense when I say that personally, I am repulsed by that sort of a life. It could just be personal preference, but I know it's not for me. |
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| kthnxbye |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
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just because someone sets a career path doesnt mean that they are comitting themselves to a scripted life. i want a career so that i can support my hobbies.
also the things i want in life are quite common. a house. is that bad? is that scripted? a gf/wife. scripted? i wouldnt call them scripted at all. dont get me wrong. i dont know when exactly those will happen but i would love to have the house soon after i graduate. |
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