Do you have a "5 year plan"?

[LitmusDragon]

I personally live from day to day. Maybe I'll have a plan for vacation later in the year, but that's about it. How about you?

I never know what to say when I'm asked about this in job interviews.

 

[gturner]

2010 - take back the House

2011 - repeal health care bill, sales taxes on candy, and limit Grover Cleveland to only one dollar coin.

2012 - take back the White House, widen its hallways, and put a Coke machine in the press room.

2013 - conquer Europe and Asia, except for Switzerland and the little bits that nobody really wants.

2014 - conquer Africa, South America, Antarctica, and other perhaps several other continents. Require all wines to have screw tops. Ban the new plastic packages that require power tools to saw open.

 

[bigdaddy]

No, and I actually can't stand people who do.

Sure I basic 5 year plan "Finish grad school." is fine, but I have talked to people who act like I'm lesser than them because I don't have ever single day of the next 10 years planned out. If you asked me if I would be where I am three months ago the answer would be no. A friend of mine in the fall was thinking about teaching English in Israel after going to grad school in Chicago. He's now probably going to stay in the area and wants to be a Latin teacher. Plans change and plans never stay how you thought they would. You might miss out on something bigger because you are so anal you don't see what you are missing.

2010 - take back the House

2011 - repeal health care bill, sales taxes on candy, and limit Grover Cleveland to only one dollar coin.

2012 - take back the White House, widen its hallways, and put a Coke machine in the press room.

2013 - conquer Europe and Asia, except for Switzerland and the little bits that nobody really wants.

2014 - conquer Africa, South America, Antarctica, and other perhaps several other continents. Require all wines to have screw tops. Ban the new plastic packages that require power tools to saw open.

Holy fuck! George Bush is a member of this forum!!!

 

[iguana_tonante]

I have lots and lots of "5 minute plan". They worked so far.

Require all wines to have screw tops.

Obviously, you understand this means war.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Nope, I don't plan that far in advance. There's really no point since life is always throwing curveballs at me. Even if I did make such plans, they'd be screwed up in a hurry by other circumstances.

 

[Shikarnov]

2010 - take back the House

Possible. But you'll need a 2/3 majority in both the House and Senate if you hope to accomplish your next goal.

2011 - repeal health care bill, sales taxes on candy, and limit Grover Cleveland to only one dollar coin.

I'll preempt Tachy's 2012 promise and will eat my own shit if HCR is repealed in 2011 -- see my previous reply for the reason.

2012 - take back the White House, widen its hallways, and put a Coke machine in the press room.

"It's the economy, stupid." If things are looking better in 2012, our incumbent president is going to be very difficult to pick off.

2013 - conquer Europe and Asia, except for Switzerland and the little bits that nobody really wants.

You gotta conquer Switzerland. They have the best chocolate in the world. That alone is worth the one soldier's time.

2014 - conquer Africa, South America, Antarctica, and other perhaps several other continents. Require all wines to have screw tops. Ban the new plastic packages that require power tools to saw open.

And you were saying that Switzerland is a part that nobody wants?

 

[Finn]

Yes-finish school, marry my woman, move away from the godforsaken place that is DC, start a new career and have kids

 

[Kestra]

Absolutely. Actually, it's more like, a few different versions of a basic five year plan. I've planned out my academic courses meticulously until graduation, but there is a lot of room in there to change things up. Beyond that is grad school, and if I don't get it the first time around, I have a few different plans in mind. I also have other personal goals I would like to achieve within the next five years, so those are factored in as well.

I believe in having a plan, always, but I also realize that things rarely go according to plan. Still I think it's silly to say that plans are useless just because you cannot account for everything in your future. I like to try and account for what I can, and be sensible enough to understand that life can change at any moment. I'm comfortable with that.

 

[Canadave]

My five-year plan includes industrializing the Soviet Union and introducing collective farms.

 

[Jetfire]

I did a thread like This a while back...it was about 10 year plans...but could I'd want it done in 5 years.

 

[gturner]

2010 - take back the House

Possible. But you'll need a 2/3 majority in both the House and Senate if you hope to accomplish your next goal.

Not enough Democratic held Senate seats are up in 2010 to make a 2/3 majority possible.

2011 - repeal health care bill, sales taxes on candy, and limit Grover Cleveland to only one dollar coin.

I'll preempt Tachy's 2012 promise and will eat my own shit if HCR is repealed in 2011 -- see my previous reply for the reason.

But by packaging the repeal with the candy taxes and Grover Cleveland coin issue, Obama would be hard pressed not to sign it. Nobody thinks Grover Cleveland deserves two dollar coins when even Washington and Lincoln only get one each, and nobody can be against cheaper candy for the children.

"It's the economy, stupid." If things are looking better in 2012, our incumbent president is going to be very difficult to pick off.

Things are not going to be looking much better in 2012. Taxes are going up across the board, especially on businesses, so hiring isn't going to greatly improve. Meanwhile the debt keeps piling up and US Treasuries are getting pretty shaky.

2013 - conquer Europe and Asia, except for Switzerland and the little bits that nobody really wants.

You gotta conquer Switzerland. They have the best chocolate in the world. That alone is worth the one soldier's time.

But the next part of the plan is conquering the areas that produce cocoa beans, so even without conquering Switzerland we will still control their chocolate.

 

[gturner]

I did a thread like This a while back...it was about 10 year plans...but could I'd want it done in 5 years.

You do have a point.

Sandra Bullock had a five-year plan, which seemed to go pretty well, then the plan elapsed and WHAM!, total freakin' chaos.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

To prevail.

 

[ITL]

Plan? What is....plan?

 

[Vulcan Princess]

I have a plan, but I've had so many twists and turns in life that I've created trap-doors in my plan to account for life.

It goes something like this: Finish law school next year. Apply (simultaneously) for an LLM program, a judicial clerkship, and a teaching position at a law school. If I get the teaching position, that's what I'll take. If not, I'll take the clerkship, with more school being the last choice. (I'll probably apply for some regular lawyer jobs, too.) The plan is to have a tenure track teaching position within 5 years.

 

[Mr. B]

I never know what to say when I'm asked about this in job interviews.

I know what I'd say...

"If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans."

 

[Omnius]

So far it's basically graduate from the Royal Military Academy this year. Getting my comission as a 2nd Lieutenant in 2011. Maybe get a promotion to 1st Lieutenant in 2014 or so when my contract gets extended or not.

 

[gturner]

So far it's basically graduate from the Royal Military Academy this year. Getting my comission as a 2nd Lieutenant in 2011. Maybe get a promotion to 1st Lieutenant in 2014 or so when my contract gets extended or not.

Oh, so you'll be part of the British military. Perhaps you can help me with a 5-year plan I've got going on the side.

I have an interest in time, and I've noticed that the central Atlantic timezone's only residents are a pair of a little British government outposts on South Georgia and the South Sandwich islands, since Greenland, Brazil, and the Azores don't use GMT - 2.

What would it take to convince your government to switch South Georgia and the South Sandwhich islands to GMT - 3 ?

 

[Holdfast]

2010 - take back the House
2011 - repeal health care bill, sales taxes on candy, and limit Grover Cleveland to only one dollar coin.
2012 - take back the White House, widen its hallways, and put a Coke machine in the press room.
2013 - conquer Europe and Asia, except for Switzerland and the little bits that nobody really wants.
2014 - conquer Africa, South America, Antarctica, and other perhaps several other continents. Require all wines to have screw tops. Ban the new plastic packages that require power tools to saw open.

You had me until the wine thing.
You saved yourself though, with the plastic packages.

So far it's basically graduate from the Royal Military Academy this year. Getting my comission as a 2nd Lieutenant in 2011. Maybe get a promotion to 1st Lieutenant in 2014 or so when my contract gets extended or not.

Oh, so you'll be part of the British military.

In his case, it's Royal Dutch. Not British.

What would it take to convince your government to switch South Georgia and the South Sandwhich islands to GMT - 3 ?

The whole point of imperial government is to create nonsensical arbitrary rules. You use our units too, don't you, you should know this!


From the old thread of his that Jetfire linked to upthread:

I don't have a 10 year plan, but back in 2006 I started a 5 year plan which is progressing reasonably smoothly. Not terribly detailed, just key goals that needed to be achieved within certain timeframes. Not a plan, more a time-delineated checklist. There have been occasional inevitable hiccups along the way, but also unexpected areas of progress, so it all balances out. Essentially, I got fed up with the dismissive way I was treated by the government and the public sector organisation I work for, and began planning my exit and change of lifestyle to a more laid-back portfolio-style career. To facilitate this, I've started side-businesses in my spare time and arranged my financial affairs so as to allow me to retire from full-time work in 2011. The market downturn from about summer 08 until spring 09 spooked me a bit, but things have recovered well enough now to be back on track. Just got to keep other things growing over as planned the next 18 months and the plan will come to fruition. Fingers crossed!

Social/relationshippy stuff I don't plan though; that I leave to the winds of fate.

The only update to that in the past few months is that I continue to be happy with how the markets are recovering and I've more or less finalised plans for the final year I'll be spending working for someone else rather than for myself.

 

[Pingfah]

I had one 5 years ago