Five years from now, where will you be?

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Where do you see yourself in five years time? or in ten years time? or even just in the next few months...? What is your 'grand plan' (if you have one), or are you going with the flow and seeing where life takes you?

I always thought I'd have a pretty straightforward life trajectory, school, uni, job, house, wife, kids, death... but it's turned out to be pretty different... (well, the house, wife and kids bit anyway)... I can honestly say that for the last 10-12 years, I've only known with some certainty where I'd be two or three years in advance, but not more than that... for the record, I see myself leaving London, hopefully to get a job as a lecturer somewhere (can't afford to stay in London, unless I meet a nice rich girl :sly: ...) I would love to live back in Edinburgh, Scotland - or Glasgow - but ultimately I'll go where I can get a job...

What's your plan?
 
Next year finish GCSEs with good grades.
Follow with 2 years college, electronics, engineering, physics, maths possibly.
Followed by 3 years of university studying Aerospace engineering.
Join RAF (against mum's wishes) as ground crew, heart says with fighters, head says with big birds.

I know that is more than 5 years but I thought I'd give the full story.
 
Next 5 years? Working as a mechanical engineer.

Next 10 years? Eh... Don't know, friend wants me to go work at his garage.
 
For the next year I hope to continue with the work I'm doing, and pick up a little more (I'm contracting at the moment) and at the same time finish my degree in Computer Programming.

Five years from now, Software Engineer at a large company in New Zealand.

Ten years from now, maybe Project Manager or higher in the same or a different company.

As for the other stuff - well a wife and kids would be nice, and a house too I suppose. My GF is workin' on her career as well though so the kids bit may be some time away yet (thank God...).

I also plan to build a couple of cars with my spare time. I should get a lot more spare time working than I do working and studying. I'm currently restoring/modding a Mini, and after that I wouldn't mind an import. A high end, 600hp Supra or Skyline would be nice, but with petrol prices the way they are going, the Mini might have to be it. Mind you I guess I could build the monster and then just look at it for a while... :crazy:

Hmmm, all this forward planning is making me a little :nervous:
 
Nice Thread!

Ok here's my plan,

Right now as it stands i am in around £1500 in debt to my VISA company, i drive a poxy civic which is too slow for my liking (not a slow or bad car - i just want something faster!!!) i stay with my parents and i am in a long term relationship (1 & half yrs so far)

My prediction of where i will be in five years from now will hopefully be similar to what im going to say!

Im hoping to be promoted in my job to a department supervisor, (the dept would be the sales dept of my company) and be experienced in 5 yrs time from now, have my own house dont know exactly where but i would like to think i will own a nice modern house which stands alone (not attached to any other house but still in a nice estate) I'd like to be married (maybe kids - who knows) i would like to have my Motorcycle licence and have myself either an Yamaha R1 or R6 - I'd like to be driving a White Honda Integra type-r.

This is everything i will be planning for whether its 5 or 10 years down the line im sure it will be pretty similar to this (hopefully) the only thing that is unpredictable is the 'getting married' part as you can never tell with love or what be expected from it.

I have a friend who live in Atlanta, he has his own company making and selling guitars - he has just started up so far he sais his business is doing well and there is a possibility if it goes extremely well, he promised me i could move over there with him and work for him! This would change my whole plan i have but it is a different perspective on life i can look at and see that the possibility of what could or will happen.

Hope i aint bored you's

Barry

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Get financial backing from an insane billionaire.

Build a robot army.

Take over the world.
 
Do business school the next four years, then do three years of MBA at NYU's Stern, then get filthy rich in the popcorn industry.
 
About 5 years I'll be 20.
Probably working and go to University, and live in my own apartment. Later on get a car.
I haven't tought about anything else yet. That's what I would like to plan for the future.

Edit : Have a good looking girlfriend :sly:
 
I'm not sure actualy.

I'd like to follow in my Dad's footsteps with learning a computer language so I can write software, or even do what my Dad does and write software for the military and satellites in space. You get a fair amount of money.

A bit more unrealistic, I would like to do a job to do with cars, but engineering isn't my thing and testing cars it quite impossible so I might have to forget a job like this. :(
 
Some great posts thus far... interesting reading! So far, we have a future RAF man, a potential popcorn tycoon, engineers (mechanical and software), possibly a guitar maker/sales person, several degrees, and a plan to take over the world :nervous:

Good stuff... keep it coming!

Nice to see you back, Samberto 👍 Sounds like things are working out well for you and your wife :)

@ G.T., with a degree or diploma in computer programming or relevant I.T. skills, you could easily work your way into some branch of automotive design... a friend of mine (well, I guy I went to Uni with) now works for the Toyota F1 team in Germany :crazy: , he did a degree in Maths... with my degree in Chemistry, I almost got a job working in an oil/lubricants company in Derby, and they had links to motorsport (obviously)... I didn't get it though :( I'm not too sad about that though, it might have been very very dull... :sly:

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Sat waiting for GT5 to come out?
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:lol: I said next five to ten years, not twenty!
 
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@ G.T., with a degree or diploma in computer programming or relevant I.T. skills, you could easily work your way into some branch of automotive design... a friend of mine (well, I guy I went to Uni with) now works for the Toyota F1 team :crazy: , he did a degree in Maths...
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I never knew that. I'll have a look into it.
 
Touring Mars
school, uni, job, house, wife, kids, death
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Check, check, check, double-check, check, double check again (almost), and I haven't pissed #5 off enough yet.

Yet.
 
In about 10yrs, I'd like to live in some kinda house in a stable job, just about to get married, possibly with child soon after at bout 25-30yrs old, just to be happy really
 
I don't have the slightest clue where I'll be in five years (especially since I don't even know where I want to go to college or what I want to major in).

I don't really have any trouble with that though – the rest of my life is totally uncertain, and that's fine with me. I figure if I get too specific with how I want my life to be, I'll be set for disappointment.

I think the only certain thing is that I'll still be using Apple computers. :D
 
Working in animation at some university and going out with lots and lots of ladies.
 
Probably just finishing up my Masters Degree in Accounting.
 
Driving around in my 91 RX-7 Turbo II, and becoming an automotive engineer.
 
Wife will then have her Masters / bachelors / CGA, so maybe a baby, and I will be the stay-at-home-dad !!!!!!

I am ok with that ! Oh Yeah !
 
5 years I don't know maybe a short stint with a band, along with a steady job,10 years from now I want to open a garage, tuning cars, custom painting , body kits etc. and other general car repairs, tune ups, smog, and even transmissions (did I spell that right?)
 
I have no idea.

I'll be studying the next three years in a "sixth form/upper secondary school"(translator gave me these words, hope they make some sense) which is an acatemic. I went there purely because I didn't know what I should do yet, so this option gives me three more years to think about it, and a good base for university and 'polytechnic' (yay, go translator). I might go to the uni, if I feel like I want to study for several more years. I study something computer related too, but I'm not sure yet.

Thank god I have three years to think about my future :D
 
5 years from now?

I'll have my current job (though hopefully not exactly the same position). I'll make more money. My wife will be finished with school and working. We'll have a kid (we don't right now), and we'll have a house (not an easy thing to do in LA).
 
Yeah 6th form is correct, or in Britain you could call it college.

So you can leave school and go straight to university if you want in Finland?
Or was it more career decision you were making and not an educational one?
 
ExigeExcel
Yeah 6th form is correct, or in Britain you could call it college.

So you can leave school and go straight to university if you want in Finland?
Or was it more career decision you were making and not an educational one?
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Well you have to have some kind of base in order to go to university, like graduating from sixth form.

And I was thinking educational.
Good thing for me is that I can do pretty much what I want, because the educational system is free in Finland, so money won't become an object in my education.
 
In 5, probably heading through college.
IN 10, possibly marrying whoever I'm dating, hopefully, the one I'm with now.
And probably in some kind of job at the track.

I have a pal who loves to race his Porsches, and is an avaid track worker. So, I might possibly be his intern or whatever at the track.

But before death, probably retiring here in this country in a house with my love with a home over looking the sea.
I haven't really thought about kids though.
 
Two years should do the trick for me...

Already have the undergrad, cutest wife in the world, cutest baby in the world, and house. My car totally sucks, though (see my sig), but there's a good reason I drive a cheapo. I'm going back to school in 3 weeks to get my MBA (that's 2 years of expensive stuff). I've got a scholarship, but with a baby that doesn't make things a breeze. I've seriously considered getting a JD-MBA (joint law/business degree), but my dad and younger brother should have the law end of things covered (my younger bro has 1 yr left), and the dean of the MBA pgm told me that the market doesn't reward (ie, you wont make any more $$$ for having) a joint degree. Plus, I don't really like it as much as business. But, if you do them at the same time, it's a 4 year program(law is 3 years and MBA pgms are 2 years, if you do it all separately), and having been accepted to both programs as of this writing, I haven't decided for sure yet. But I will probably just go the business route.

My plan is to get an internship and then a job with an automobile manufacturer, preferably working in their international operations group. I'm also considering Johnson and Johnson medical (devices, ideally), and am open to suggestions from the career advisors at school. I'm trying to decide if I want to make a career out of my passion, or just go for a different interest and keep the car thing a hobby (while I'm a little short on computer hacking and nunchuck skills, I've got pretty decent chemistry/biology/physics skills for a business grad).

But whatever I decide, I should have a pretty definite plan by December, when I'll be working to get an internship for next summer, that will hopefully turn into a job offer after graduation. So, 2 years from today, I should be 3 months into the career I've chosen.

After that? Real estate development, an online database company, race team, global fortune 500 company, who knows?
 

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