Where do you think you'll be/want to be in 5 years?

[Jayson1]

I would like to have my own place for sure. It's been okay living with my mom and niece but we have nothing in common and we fight alot which only makes me feel more lonely than if I was alone. I would like to have lost at least 100 pounds. I am really big and it's always hard to get started and sometimes I give up to soon but I think I might be on the right path now.
I have even been thinking about going back to school. I want to learn to cook and even takes some creative writing classes because that was actually the only thing I was good at when I first went to college back in the 90's after high school.
I would also love to part of some social club of people who like sci-fi or movies or anything but I guess people in Oklahoma just don't seem to be into it. I also wouldn't mind having a webpage or something like that but I don't really have the computer skills to do that on my own.
Wouldn't mind having a girlfriend or even sex but it's kind of secondary to having friends.

Jason

 

[RJDiogenes]

Retired, relaxing, and writing.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

I don't expect much to change for me in the next five years. Probably have at least another 15 till I can retire (with 30 years in at my current job), if then. Assuming I can hang on for a few election cycles until saner heads prevail and my state's higher education system gets funded properly again, and actually learn my job before someone realizes I'm making a lot of it up as I go because they couldn't be arsed to spend the money to train me..

One or both of my parents might die, (mid-70's, dad's going through chemo now) which would mean I would inherit half of a farm which I have neither the desire nor the ability to manage, so It's already been agreed upon that my brother will buy my half from me once the property has been appraised.

IF I get half of what my father was once offered for the farm (big if in the real estate market), and I bank it well, I might have enough for a fairly comfortable early retirement, or at least a modestly comfortable lifestyle as opposed to my current largely check-to-check existence.

Wife and I will continue to struggle with our various health issues, her moreso.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Where I want to be is alive, healthy enough, and with enough money not to be too stressed about either. Keep taking some classes, traveling, doing some volunteer work and art, and otherwise enjoying retirement.

 

[Sibyl]

I believe I have three choices: I'll either be a successful modeler and toy designer/maker, on the streets, or (because of health issues) dead.

I'm going for the first option.

P.S. What does Grammarly have against the Oxford Comma?

 

[Velocity]

I'm old. I just hope to still be alive in 5 years. I'd like to live long enough to see my granddaughters married. That would need at least 10 years.

 

[auntiehill]

In a better house, with fewer bills and less stress, doing pretty much the same thing that I'm doing now.

 

[Robert McCall]

Within five years hopefully I'll qualify as a barrister in either Canada or England & Wales, and will be in a position where I can practice law 50% of the time and spend the other 50% of my time working as an adjunct law professor or adjunct law librarian.

 

[Taylirious]

With a partner, a life filled with love & joy.

 

[Finn]

Teaching science, working toward a principal license, a new place with attached garage and a nice yard and raising a little kid at home

 

[Australis]

Writing full time. So close now I can taste it.

 

[Tosk]

I'll be exactly where I am right now. Mark it Dude.

 

[Amaris]

In 5 years? Alive. Independent. Married. Preferably in that order.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

In 5 years - healthier, enjoying a future job and enjoying life.

 

[scotpens]

In five years' time I'll probably be right where I am now, only with more health issues. (My list of doctors reads like a player roster for a sports team.)

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Sitting on a beach earning 20%.

 

[Tesophius]

In five years I'll be making 52% more than I do now, or about 47% more if adjusted for inflation. I'll probably be in a new place. I'll either be married and looking to buy real estate or I'll be alone and moving/have moved to another country. I expect to be just as stressed out as I am now, if not more, spending 50% of my free time on business and that's on top of a career, unless the former takes off and I don't have to have a day job anymore, which would be fantastic.

My parents are going to be getting to an age when I'll have to start making serious investments into their health and longevity. I'll have to start making arrangements for emergency cryopreservation. Depending on how financially successful I am at that point I'll either be relying on an existing service, such as Alcor, or will start building an extended family shared/owned complex.

I'll probably start taking a lot more supplements myself, following something along the lines of Ray Kurzweil's dietary routine.

The most optimistic scenario is that I'll have a child by then, in which case raising him/her is going to be my priority.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Earth.