Your 10 Year Plan?

[Jetfire]

The past 10 years have been a waist for me...I am hoping the next 10 years will be better.

My goals are not to great...Just Home of my own & Land, A wife and kids(Start a family) & Be finacially stable.

The last one is the trick and first on my list...becoming finacially stable seems impossible for me.

I am not sure if this will happen and if it doesn't look likely within the next 5 years...I am done...I will give up.

 

[Amaris]

I know how you feel. I want a girlfriend (in truth, I want a family of my own, but let's take small steps), but I want to be socially and financially stable first. I look at my brother who is 7 years younger than me, and he has a wife, a baby daughter, and another one on the way. They just got their first home. It sends mixed signals to me, because he always did the opposite of me. I obeyed, I listened, I did my work, I did my best, and I ended up with little to nothing to show for it. He rebelled, he didn't listen, hell, he never graduated from high school, and now he has a good job, a lovely wife, a child another on the way and his first home to call his own. I don't want to say I'm jealous because I dearly love my Brother, but it just blows my mind how things can work out. In high school, everyone thought I'd be the married guy with a few kids by the time our 10th reunion rolled around, but I was one of the few people unmarried, still helping my family, having really nothing to call my own. These past 10 years since I graduated from high school have been mostly terrible. That's why I'm happy to see this decade come to an end. Maybe, just maybe some good fortune lies in wait for me this next decade.

I turn 30 in March and I'm in the same position I was when I was 20. It seems like every time I get close to tasting just a bit of something worth living for, it gets ripped away at the last moment to those who would either never appreciate it, or didn't work for it.

It can really bring one down, even an eternal optimist.

J.

 

[Jetfire]

J, why does this happen to people like yourself & I?...story of my life what you said.

 

[Finn]

2010- Get a student job/internship, do a lot of progress in my second BA, living the life with my fiancee.

2011- Finish my second BA studies, get married, see Wisconsin for the first time, start graduate school.

2012- Finish graduate school, try for a kid and move to a new city.

2013- Have a kid by then.

2014- Hopefully, we will be able to look for a house.

2019- We'll be done having kids as the eldest one enters grade school.

Hopefully sometimes during the next decade, we will have a road trip that would take us across the upper midwest and the upper plains to Wyoming then San Francisco. Oh, and actually put my camping equipment to use, especially the tent which I had for almost two years (I hadn't gone camping since spring of 2003).

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I gave up having 10 year plans. Oddly about 8 years ago. I learned planning too far ahead can lead to catastrophe. 10 years ago, I was sure I'd be a teacher, hopefully with a husband and a couple of kids. It didn't happen. I've had too many curve balls lately. The future is uncertain.

 

[JonathonWally]

My plan? gonna play it by ear.

 

[TheBrew]

Going to get a masters in public policy focusing on health care and go work on VA policy.

 

[RoJoHen]

I don't have a plan. I do, however, hope to have a stable job and to own a house. I'd like to have a girlfriend/wife/whatever...maybe a kid or two.

I'm only 24. Ten years is nearly half my life! I have no idea where I will actually be in another ten years.

 

[Lord Garth]

I have no 10-year plan. In 10 years I'll be 40. The sooner I get things done, the better.

I want to have a high-paid job and a family of my own before I hit the middle-age mark.

 

[Goji]

My ten year plan involves aging exactly one decade, and getting that much closer to inevitable death.

It might sound bleak, but I like plans that don't require me to do much of anything, and that have close to 100% certainty of proceeding as expected.

 

[Data Holmes]

I gave up on plans long ago.

 

[I'm Kirk]

In the next 10 years I want my wedding photography business to really take hold and grow each year until at least in 10 years I will have a wedding to shoot every other weekend from April thru October..

 

[Mallory]

In eight years I'll be retired. After that, who knows? So no 10 year plan for me.

 

[Amaris]

J, why does this happen to people like yourself & I?...story of my life what you said.

I don't know. If I were more pessimistic, I'd say that "no good deed goes unpunished". Some people say that "Good things come to those who wait", but I put about as much credibility into that as I do the idea that "Jesus has someone for each person", (something I heard growing up. If only I'd have known better).

I really don't know what to tell you. I am just as mystified. When I was younger, I had plans like Lord Garth's. Before I hit 40, I wanted to be set and stable and take it from there. At this point I'll be getting started by the time I hit 40, which is a kick in the balls, if you'll pardon my use of the vernacular.


J.

 

[royalfan5]

In 10 years, I plan to be President of Bulgaria. As I am not a Bulgarian, nor have been there I figure running it 5 years is asking a bit much.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I don't know if I have a 10 year plan either. Plans rarely work out as expected (unless you plan like Goji! ) and often can be a source of frustration, if you set unrealistic goals for yourself (which, being an overachiever anyway, I always did).

That said, this will probably be the last decade in which I will be up for what I call 'mud hut travel', so I need to get alot of traveling done in the second and third worlds. In particular, I'd like to finally get to Tibet - something that has LONG been a travel goal of mine. India is also high on my list, as is a trek to Everest Base Camp (if I can ever get myself into good enough shape). I'd also like to do some traveling in Africa (mostly North Africa) and South America (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil are all on the menu) while I still am young enough to 'rough it' a bit (by American standards) and be able to cope.

Other than that, if I can stay healthy, stay employed, save some money for retirement, and pay down my house it would be great.

 

[Kommander]

Step 1: spend the next 4-5 years or so in college working toward a degree in marketing.

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit.

 

[Kelso]

I really don't know. In the last ten years, I graduated from HS, enrolled in college (and then dropped out like a jackass), got married, got a pretty good paying job (which is tolerable, at best), bought a nice 4-bedroom house, had a child... its been fairly productive-even if I didn't make all of the best decisions along the way.

Now, my wife (of 6 years) and I are talking about divorce and the house has become like a stone around my neck since the economy started kicking my pay-check's ass.

If I could do anything, I'd go back to school for something that really interests me (to hell with it being practical) and ensure that my next relationship is with someone who gets me.

 

[Capn Flukie]

My 10 year plan is to not die. If I'm alive by time I'm 60, I've lived longer than my mother, 2 sisters and a brother, plus a niece, if I live to 65, I will have lived longer than my other brother and sister.

What lofty goals!

 

[Harvey]

I'd like to attend a graduate program, earn an M.A. and a Ph.D., and begin teaching at a university somewhere in the next ten years. It would be nice to end up in a relationship by then, but I'm not hedging my bets.

And, also, not to die, though I imagine it's not that lofty a goal since I'll only be 32 in ten years.