I hope I get this job with the Secret Service next year. If, not, I'm going to finish grad school and either go straight for a doctorate or try to get into law school. I would also definitely like to have a family ten years from now.
Wow... Something happened that blew my "plan" (which was actually for the next few years) out of the water (mere hours after my post). My fiancee is considering moving to Nashville. It was a dream of hers. I'd love to move with her right away. She just needs to get out of DC and fly on her own. I'm happy for her. I'll be stuck in school while she starts on her own. But she will have my stuff and probably the real Finn.
Sounds like a good plan. I have some vague ideas about what I want in general, but I like my plans to stay fluid. Life is too unpredictable. Most of all, I want to have fun.
I'm 51 now. I expect to keep working where I am now, and hopefully will be retired or near to retiring by the time I'm 61. I like the apartment I'm in now, so I'd like to still be living there. And having a girlfriend would be nice.
What?! You're only 25? Dude, I thought you were so much older! Good lord you're younger than I am!
He is grumpy beyond his years.
Try having been a business owner for more than five years at my age. It drains you. Heck, at one point, I was working 60-70 hours a week in my office, I was an adjunct instructor at one of the local colleges and I was a bar manager -- all at the same time.
And people wonder why I've been having to dye my beard for a few years.
And people wonder why I've been having to dye my beard for a few years.
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I agree completely. I started my business at 18, was dragged through the mud for 8 years until I finally closed it. I let everything lie fallow for 3 years.
I am, however, a glutton for punishment, and reapplied for my fictitious name and business license this morning.
This time I have some new ideas and have learned from my past mistakes. I can make it work again. Plus, to be honest, if I want anything out of life it's going to come from me working with my own hands, running my own business, making my own decisions, and not working for $7.25 at a McDonalds where a squeaky voiced guy fresh out of high school gets to yell at me for not doing everything his way.
My future is in my hands now, and I'm going to make it work.
(Sorry, that went from agreement to a personal pledge very quickly.
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I'll be 25 in a few months, and I can't even imagine trying to do all of that. I wouldn't want to!
In January of 2008, I decided to devote myself solely to my firm, because the quality of my work was starting to slip ... and, well, if I can't make it to my desk by 9 a.m., I sure as hell can't ask my employees to do the same thing.
As I said earlier, however, due to some diversification in our strategies (and a new product launch that is sucking down resources at a tremendous rate, but represents eight figures of profit in the first half of 2010 alone), our company is more profitable than ever, despite Iowa's overall economy still being in a pretty sad state of affairs. Now, I just need to work on reducing my overall work hours during the week ... and the weekends ... and the holidays ... yeah, that'll happen soon.
As I said earlier, however, due to some diversification in our strategies (and a new product launch that is sucking down resources at a tremendous rate, but represents eight figures of profit in the first half of 2010 alone), our company is more profitable than ever, despite Iowa's overall economy still being in a pretty sad state of affairs. Now, I just need to work on reducing my overall work hours during the week ... and the weekends ... and the holidays ... yeah, that'll happen soon.
I still agree that you're grumpy beyond your years. But I've gotten used to it now, so it's a cute sort of grumpiness.
I know, that's adorable! You're like a cute cuddly grumpy guy. One that scolds people for using pre-made mixes when they cook or making chili out of ketchup and velveeta, but deep down has a heart of gold.
My plan is to not have a ten year plan until I'm in my 50s and have to start worrying about retirement.
If you're smart, you'll start worrying about retirement well before that.
10 years? Nah, I'm going 5 years.
In no order
1) Get published
2) House of our own; with an office for me to work, a shop for me and the kids to build models and me to play with electronics.
3) A good, reliable, car. Nothing fancy (I hate fancy), just a good "family" car.
4) Rebuild my writing career and rebuild my business and expand it.
5) Loss at least a 100 lbs and get my health under control.
In no order
1) Get published
2) House of our own; with an office for me to work, a shop for me and the kids to build models and me to play with electronics.
3) A good, reliable, car. Nothing fancy (I hate fancy), just a good "family" car.
4) Rebuild my writing career and rebuild my business and expand it.
5) Loss at least a 100 lbs and get my health under control.
Yeah I suppose you're right. *sigh*. I really dislike planning things out, takes all the fun out of things.
I do have a 401k so I think I'm at least somewhat prepared for the future. I'm sure that's not going to be enough all on it's own though.
That's for sure. My wife, who's nearly 27, has been paying into her employer-matched 401(k) plan for four years, now. While I don't have the resources to funnel into a savings account at the moment, I do have equity, and a fair amount of it, in my firm.
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