Do you know where life will take you in the next 5 years?

Question

I don't know quite where my life is leading yet and I feel a bit confused!

Big smiles! =D

Answer 1

In days of old, one pretty much knew where their live would take them, they would finish school, and go to work at a local place and retire from there. Pretty cut and dry, and a person would probably marry someone they grew up with...scary thought...

Now with people moving from job to job and location to location, finding ones way can be a bit tough sometimes so perhaps my thoughts on the subject will help.

I'm within a few months of retiring, (medically) and I have done just about everything there is to do on my list of I never expected to do that...

First, I would suggest that you start thinking about what you want to do when you grow up. It does not mean you will get to do that. I wanted to be a micro-biologist but I could not take college, I hated the university system, So I ended up following the path of most fun, drove a truck for 30 years, served in the military from 1973 until present and will retire in January, and I owned one awesome money making business with 6 great employees, and am debt free because I did not get money hungry.

My original plan was to become a micro-biologist and study for the forest service or some other agricultural agency as I like the feild. (no pun).
I went to the university for 2 years and was thinking I can't take this, and micro was not panning out to what I was interested in, and I can't stand letting bugs walk on me(that was then, not it does not bother me, so entomology was out).

I took a number of jobs, janitor, made eye glasses, made memory chips, painted, and did some fence work in college so I had a general idea of what was out there.

Trucking was paying pretty well, so I got into that, logged my 8 million miles (joking, I did not keep a log of that, apart from Iraq, where I drove 4500 miles on the highways there, but in uniform and well armed). I got tired of working away from home, I pretty much lost my wife because I was gone so much, she found an old boyfriend and started an affair with him. I decided to get into business for myself and so while trucking, I started a part-time business, read all the literature, talked to SCORE (retired businessmen who help new enterprises) and my business took off. I continuted ot drive for a time as I like getting out of town.

With that said, (sort of a biography) lets break it all out. I knew what I wanted, a house, got one, paid off. I wanted a family, (lost that option due to my wife not being faithful and me being gone). That was about all I wanted, a home and a loving family.

Next, was my choice of how I was going to get there. I sellected trucking because I hated college so much... So I had cash flow and bought a house.

Found a great lady and got married, my life was complete but where I goofed up was the cost of having all this stuff.

So decide what you want, figure out what it will cost and how you are going to pay for it. Had I realized the cost, I would probably have stuck it out in college and been at home at night and weekends instead of 2 states away before free long distance calls on cell phones. No internet either back then.....Lady, I'm and old dude huh?

Next, look at what you are interested in and try to find work that will be fun to you because you have an interest in it. I do a job for the army and I'm considered the star of my brigade in my job because I do it so well....It is because I have an interest in biology and medicine and I learned how to do the job from experts....

Now here is the key to it all...........keep this in mind.

chart out what you want, house, family, dog, cat, telescope (for me anyway)

figure out how you will get these things, (go into debt for a life time, or save up and buy as you have cash, which is best.)

and in all of this, figure out what you are going to do for vacation. I have really never taken a vacation because I don't like being alone, and I always am. I just work 7 days a week (until I was injured then I did not work for almost a year. I bought my telescope at that time, and started studying the sky and doing things I wanted. Now I'm working again, but very little, and I do the army stuff, which I really love doing....

Looking back, I really wasted a lot of my life while people who look at me externally would see someone with lots of money, and success as it were. But I lost the only thing that mattered to me, a wife and family

be careful not to lose what really matters to you,

Answer 2

Well i'll be 18 years old in the next 5 years so i'll probably be living in a apartment and working a good job and traveling the world :)

Answer 3

Well, right now I am twelve... so if all goes well, graduating into colledge!!! That is a very pleasing thought, to see that in five years I will be preparing for my career~

I only now just realized those tiny five years before that time
but I am confident that I will be there in those small five years~

Answer 4

It's still a mystery. It depends on which road I'll decide to take in the next few days. Hopefully, I'll make the right decision.

Answer 5

To the top of the pyramid of life; to a state of complete bliss, happiness, joy, gratitude, utter hope, awareness, love, compassion ~ complete consciousness. In fact I'm already there! =)

Answer 6

Hopefully to a happy retirement with the man I love

Answer 7

Probably sitting in a couch with me & my husband watching our baby who will be 5 years old during that time..<^.^>

Answer 8

Probably sitting at the desk about 8m from the one I am sitting at now

Answer 9

Hopefully I'll be living in New Hampshire.~

Answer 10

I am praying it doesn't have anything to do with children...I'm not good with kids and have bad patients to a degree....err...mostly likely setteld back down in England...in school...possibly a significant other....maybe not....I like my freedom.