maynne wtf is this life lesson shit

BEAST THE FUCK OUTTA HERE

12/7/2010 5:46:20 PM

1 year: I will have finished my PhD by now and will probably be either in San Diego or Sydney Australia living it up for a while

5 years: My company should be running and well established and provide enough business for me that I will not need to have a 2nd job I can just focus on the corporation

10 years: Married with a couple kids...we'll see

12/7/2010 5:49:29 PM

^ Dude, congrats on being almost done with school. That's awesome!

12/7/2010 5:53:21 PM

^thanks! actually ill be graduating in May, def looking forward to getting this over with


btw barring any craziness I should be in orlando next may, i have a timeshare there. We should meet up so you can buy me a congratulatory beer

12/7/2010 6:01:37 PM

In a year...probably unemployed, doing side work wherever I can.
In five years...probably in prison for a paltry crime.
In ten years...likely dead.

12/7/2010 6:06:18 PM

^^ most def! Holla at a sista

12/7/2010 6:07:22 PM

Quote :

"iheartkisses: And law school is pretty life-changing."

Quote :

"BridgetSPKYeah, it is if you change your life because of it. Like leave personal finance to become a human rights advocate or to write legal thrillers. This guy's just adding tax lawyer on to personal finance. That is not some drastically different path, a la Sliding Doors. Furthermore, if you plan it out five years in advance, the awe and wonder of "different paths" isn't so magical. He's not missing a train...he's making a calculated decision to go to law school so he can be more marketable in the same field."

Ladies, ladies, let's simmer down

Let me present to you: Plan C and D

Plan C
...in a year?Working as a consultant, traveling too much, and getting over the breakup from the long-term relationship
...in 5 years?Working abroad as a consultant, true road warrior style
...in 10 years?Recovering from road warrior burn out while working a 9-5 IB job, and planning a transition to day trading and teaching on the university level.

Plan D
...in a year?Working as a consultant, traveling too much, and getting over the breakup from the long-term relationship
...in 5 years?Working abroad as a consultant while building connections in the motherland
...in 10 years?Moving back to the motherland and enjoying a simpler less-driven corporate culture than in the U.S.



Let's hear your Plan B, iheartkisses?

[Edited on December 7, 2010 at 9:41 PM. Reason : .]

12/7/2010 9:39:29 PM

I no longer plan my life in a long-term sense. I stopped doing that shortly after I graduated (spring 2007) and the economy took a dive

12/7/2010 9:52:13 PM

1 year: No real personal plans for the next 3 years... Just bank money, continue school, and avoid many of life's dirty temptations...

5 years: Graduate from NCSU and switching careers to something with a better paycheck and benefits. Hopefully I'll be more into cars, track events, and shooting/hunting. Finish getting the Porsche back on the road and finally on a track.

10 years: Making money and fullfilling all of the materialistic demands my wife and I have.



[Edited on December 7, 2010 at 10:01 PM. Reason : .]

12/7/2010 9:59:38 PM

...in a year?
...in 5 years?
...in 10 years?

No idea. I graduate this spring. My husband graduates in a few years too. A lot depends on the job situation.

Well the no idea thing isn't really true. Its too many ideas. I know of roughly 3 main probabilities that can happen for me. And 3 for what happens with his job. And then depending on the quality of the job and location and possibility of advancement will determine what moving needs to happen when and to where. I could make a list of every likely possible combination of these different things, but it'd be like 30 different possible plans.

Give me 6 more months and I'll be able to give a lot more specific plan.

12/7/2010 10:36:34 PM

one year: still here
five years: grad school
ten years: with a hot broad on some beach with too much money

12/7/2010 10:40:13 PM

Quote :

"Let's hear your Plan B, iheartkisses?"

Plan B
One year: Pursue my MFA in Creative Writing. Get a dog.
Five year: Teach and write. Have awesome dog. Maybe get a boyfriend. Manage family business.
Ten year: Team and write. Get published. Manage family business.

Plan C
One year: Move back to NC and work in my old job. Maybe date an ex-boyfriend. Get a dog.
Five year: Move into management at old job. Continue dating ex-boyfriend. Love dog. Manage family business.
Ten year: Repeat five-year plan. Maybe get a second dog.

12/7/2010 11:29:08 PM

i have NO idea

in one year i want to be out of NC

but after that...who knows? is it bad not to have a plan?

eventually in life i'd like to go to nursing school, i'd put that in the 5 yearish plan (to start nursing school)

other than that, i kinda just want to live and be happyyyy

12/7/2010 11:46:22 PM

...in a year? Data crunching and interviewing people for my capstone project, studying for finals, and planning a wedding (well, I'm doing that right now, but at that point it will obviously involve more)
...in 5 years? Practicing genetic counseling maaaaybe in Raleigh/Durham... Really depends on where I can get a job. I want to stay in the area (it would be ideal if I could get a position at Duke or UNC) but I'm not opposed to going out of state, as long as it's in the southeast. Maybe thinking about kids at that point.
...in 10 years? I would really love to have ownership in a practice with some doctors specializing in different areas. Hopefully the field will be advanced enough by then...

12/7/2010 11:48:27 PM

Quote :

"I will have finished my PhD by now and will probably be either in San Diego or Sydney Australia living it up for a while"

you better pick sydney so I can visit you there

12/7/2010 11:55:38 PM

Quote :

"i kinda just want to live and be happyyyy"

BINGO.

12/8/2010 12:00:09 AM

No clue, ask me in a few months...



^ that would be quite nice

12/8/2010 12:06:30 AM

yeahhh, I just wanna live and be happy but I think that makes me a hippy

12/8/2010 12:08:59 AM

1 year:

ideally - working in a better position in the same company here in atlanta with some new friends and maybe trying to chase a girl or something
realistically - spinning my wheels at the same company in atlanta doing the same job with no social life

5 years :
ideally - living with a SO in/near asheville or raleigh at a new job in a different industry
realistically - spinning my wheels at the same company in atlanta doing the same job with no social life

10 years - OMG I WILL BE IN MY MID 40s, I DON'T WANT TO THING ABOUT IT!!!

12/8/2010 12:09:51 AM

^ what's wrong with ATL Jawjuh? Look what it did for Outkast?

That said, I had a first date last night in which we mused over the awesomeness of living in a town like Asheville or Austin or Boulder. Le SIGH!

12/8/2010 12:12:57 AM

atl is cool, but i've been here going on 5 years now and the new has worn off. i own a house here but its not "home", it just a place to reside when i'm not at work.

12/8/2010 12:17:07 AM

I don't like that 80% of people's answers to this revolve around work and career, and 80% of the rest revolves around family. Not that those aren't worthy goals to have, especially if you're really "making a difference" with your job (whatever that means to you), but it's depressing how much it shows that our priorities are centered on jobs and making money.

I also don't like that my first thoughts when seeing that question also revolved around my career, so it's not like I'm preaching. I just wish that my first thoughts, the very first ones, were about completing an Ironman, or having visited my friends in South Africa and Japan, or having self-released an album of music I'm proud of.

12/8/2010 12:20:05 AM

Yeah, but having a career doesn't mean you're going to make lots of money

FWIW, I picked my career having no idea what I would make.. I actually didn't find out the average salary until last year, after I had already been working on getting into grad school for over a year..

12/8/2010 12:21:55 AM

No, I purposely just said "making money," not "making lots of money." I know the root goal is to be able to comfortably provide for yourself and people you care about, and that's totally honorable. I'm setting greed totally aside. I'm just lamenting that there's soooo much more to life than that, enough so that it shouldn't be the centerpiece of 80% of responses.

12/8/2010 12:25:21 AM

^^ agreed

My career is something that I'm absolutely passionate about ... pretty fortunate, I suppose. If you make your passion your purpose in life, then it really doesn't matter if your career is one of your top priorities.

Again, as a professional writer, this is easy for me to say.

[Edited on December 8, 2010 at 12:26 AM. Reason : w]

12/8/2010 12:26:24 AM

I guess mine came off wrong... My whole point was, I don't think of money at all when I picture my future career... I actually keep forgetting about salary until I see the professional status surveys from the NSGC that I use for class or something along those lines. I'm passionate about my career because it interests me and I wanted to do something with my life that benefits others

Hopefully that all made sense

[Edited on December 8, 2010 at 12:29 AM. Reason : .]

12/8/2010 12:28:06 AM

That's great! I'll put you down for one of the 20%.

[Edited on December 8, 2010 at 12:29 AM. Reason : ]

12/8/2010 12:29:01 AM

^^ same. career for me is about helping people

not about picking something that makes money.

12/8/2010 12:30:39 AM

1 year- finishing up graduate school
5 years- can't think that far. 5 years ago I packed my bags and moved to California with nothing but a prayer and a dream.
10 years- Either homeowner/married/kids/etc or unemployed/homeless/AA/NA/prison

12/8/2010 12:32:11 AM

As for my 10 year goal, I said the practice thing because it would show how much the field has progressed when you can be involved as a genetic counselor with individual clinics that aren't tied to a major hospital or university.. Occasionally you'll see a GC working at a clinic but I have yet to see one that was a co-owner.

Other goals I want to accomplish in the next 10 years:

Tour Europe
Raise over $10,000 for Relay for Life (in one year, not a progressive thing)
Go on a safari
Roadtrip across the country
Learn another language, maybe sign language

12/8/2010 12:35:02 AM

all of those you could do within a year, minus the raising ten grand thing

set the bar higher

12/8/2010 12:37:40 AM

I'd say 5. Hard to do all of that when you're in grad school, especially considering a grand tour of Europe and Amurica.

12/8/2010 12:39:58 AM

urite

pick one from the list and do it every year

12/8/2010 12:41:10 AM

I'd almost consider free room and board for a roommate who could help function as a moderator and somewhat of a life coach; help me get my shit together and get myself back on my feet.

12/8/2010 12:45:17 AM

In a year? Accepting a corporate job.
In 5 years? Contemplating murdering my superiors.
In 10 years? Dead by my own hand in a police standoff.

That's the pessimistic view, anyway. Optimistic version would be...

...Foreign Service Officer
...State Department Analyst
...Higher-ranking FSO in a charming South American country with which we have few issues but which still maintains a favorable exchange rate (I'm looking at you, Paraguay)

[Edited on December 8, 2010 at 12:46 AM. Reason : right now, could care less where family/significant others enter into it]

12/8/2010 12:45:55 AM

^^fuck that

you are the only person that can ever take control of your own life

[Edited on December 8, 2010 at 12:47 AM. Reason : asdf]

12/8/2010 12:46:43 AM

Quote :

"all of those you could do within a year, minus the raising ten grand thing"

The only one that would be somewhat achievable for this coming year is actually the $10K thing. I'm in school and living off loans... so all the other play stuff isn't gonna happen

12/8/2010 12:46:49 AM

im in grad school too

didn't stop me from driving across the country and going to south america for a few weeks

you could easily learn sign language in a semester too

12/8/2010 12:48:54 AM

I guess you missed the part where I mentioned.. I'm broke, yo

[Edited on December 8, 2010 at 12:50 AM. Reason : and the language thing I want to work on for over a year]

12/8/2010 12:50:21 AM

oic

12/8/2010 12:51:50 AM

...in a year? - halfway through 2L year with a solid line on the second summer internship, having passed the patent bar as well.
...in 5 years? - mostly paid off all my student loans as a result of having a nicely paying job and being happy to live off of 60k/year (with the rest going to loans...uhuhuhuhuuhhu wap wap) a kid or twins on the way. newer car
...in 10 years? - kids 6-8 years old, house fully paid for, newer care, eyeing second house somewhere.

12/8/2010 12:52:00 AM

I wish I was normal like you guys.

12/8/2010 1:36:45 AM

I made a thread like this, a where do you see yourself in 1, 5, 10 years (or numbers roughly similar, maybe I had a 15 in there) 3 weeks ago or so. It got trashed by a mod. Maybe b/c it was in the lounge instead of chit chat?

12/8/2010 1:52:12 AM

I don't think about it

12/8/2010 1:52:35 AM

^^ Probably.

12/8/2010 1:53:50 AM

^^^ OMAR'D

12/8/2010 2:33:02 AM

Quote :

"Year: Pensacola Florida"

hit me up when you're in Pensacola. Always nice to have a fellow TWWer living here.

12/8/2010 2:35:29 AM

1 year: getting to candidacy in a PhD program
5 years: finishing PhD, hopefully have a job offer at a research university in the south or at least a big city, maybe in a steady relationship
10 years: if I'm not in a steady relationship by then maybe settling for somebody I wouldn't have dated 10 years prior, my dog will be long gone by this point maybe associate prof. somewhere, still playing fantasy football with my old homies from college

12/8/2010 2:53:12 AM

Interviewer: [Peter is at a job interview] So, Peter, where do you see yourself in ten years?
Peter Griffin: [thinks] Don't say doin' your wife, don't say doin' your wife...
[out loud]
Peter Griffin: Doin' your, er...
[sees photo of interviewer on the beach with his wife and son]
Peter Griffin: ... son?
[interviewer's shocked expression]

12/8/2010 5:14:16 AM

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