Where do you want to be 10 years from now? Are you on the right track now?
 

If someone asked you 5 years ago where you wanted to be as far as your goals are concerned, are you there? Did you achieve those goals? Did those goals change? If they did, why?

Where do you want to be 10 years from now? In regards to your career/school? A family? Kids?

Are you on track to reaching your goals?

I don't think this is a good question (as much as some people may deny it, we don't know what the future holds for us) and I hate it when employers ask me that in interviews. I just make up something.

I don't know where I will be 10 days from now, let alone 10 years. I don't have any specific goals, as long as I have some form of employment that will pay my bills, student loans, and rent I'm content.

As for 5 years ago, again I don't set goals, but I wouldn't have guessed I would get a master's degree in education. I spontaneously applied for grad school after graduation. A complete different career turn from marketing/advertising.

I take it as a goals for right now question. I'm a perfect example of how goals change like the wind.

But since cheerfulgreek asked:

I'd like to have a baby of my own (biological or adopted)
At minimum I'd like to be a territory manager for a pharmaceutical sales company (I have one in mind but i wont name it here)
MBA and/or Masters in Public Health
Doctorate in Public Health

In ten years, I will be:
married, with some chirren
living in a house in a Southern state
have my Master's in something (Public Health, Counseling or something to do with Maternal and Child health)
be a Life Member in Zeta
paying for lilnikki's second year at UNC :eek:
still working to pay for above item :p
be happy
still on GC reviewing this thread and seeing how far I've come

For me, the answer is no. Five years ago was when my chosen career path ended at a brick wall named lupus. I am still on the road to remission.

Ten years from now, I want to be in good health. I want to be married. I want to have a doctorate degree. I want my sorority to be well-established and growing. And, I want to still be happy. :)

lol Dionysus, I agree. I don't like it when employers ask that question either, especially by the low end jobs that no one really wants to make a career out of anyway. I'm talking about where you want to be in the next 10 years in regards to your career. I wasn't asking where you think you "will" be, but where you "want" to be.

5 years ago I was 20 and yes, I'm somewhat where I said I was going to be, so I think I'm on the right track. I'm a few years behind because I was out of undergrad for a year and a half to take care of my dad when he was sick, plus I had a dual major. I did end up going back to finish, got into vet school and I'm hoping to be done on time. In the next 10 years I'll be 35. I'm hoping by that time, I'll have a successful practice of my own, and a family of my own would be nice too.:p

I'll have to wait and see though. Know one knows what the future holds. :)

My plan is to make 100k by the time I'm 25.

I think it's pretty possible.

In 10 years, my youngest will graduate from college and I will be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE to do whatever the heck I want, whenever I want.I will be selling my house to move into a condo. I will (at least) have a graduate certificate in Information Assurance and possibly a Masters in it (depending on whether I can stay motivated to be in school again in my 40's while working full time and raising two kids) and will be working as an IT security auditor. (That last half about grad school is a new idea in the last month and I haven't really decided whether to do it or not). In Alpha Gam land, I will be ready, personally, to move into higher levels of leadership.

If I'm not an attorney in 10 years, then I think I've wasted a lot of time and money on this law school thing.

ETA: I'm currently on the right track - I'm at a pretty good law school, doing well (good grades, editor on a journal, etc.), and I'm a law clerk at a company that will prepare me really well for a career in litigation.

Personally, I want to be back in the Boston area.

rocking out or tending bar


either way, i'd be happy

Well, if I'm doing the same thing I'm doing now professionally, I'll be stoked. I do love the career field I've chosen, and I really love my company. I know that people are supposed to move around, but I don't really want to.

Philanthropically, I want to continue to do what I do, but give more money. I know as life changes, I may not be able to volunteer as much; ideally I'll be able to give more money.

Personally, I want to be married with at least one kiddie in 10 years. I want to continue to have an active social life, too.

So, as you see, I'm pretty much on the right track.

In 10 years, I'll hopefully be managing the law firm. Hopefully I can grow it a little bit, definitely buy a building (we've been leasing the same space for almost 20 years now, it occurs to me that leasing might be a bit wasteful).

I have no specific income goal, just that hopefully in 10 years, I'm well off, whatever that is, in 10 years.

I'd also like to purchase a brownstone in OKC's growing downtown area. I live there now, but would like to own. I want to pay for my wife's master's/doctoral programs. Last, but certainly not least, I want to pay off all of my student loans.

Five years ago I was still in college and thinking I was going to marry my college boyfriend. He wanted to be a vet, so I figured I'd follow him around so he could go to school. Nope I'm glad that didn't work out. I'm engaged to a wonderful guy, we own our own house and I am on the way to a successful career in the govt.

In 10 years I hope, we're either buying a new house for us or building one. Possibly one child and have spent a lot of time traveling. Career wise, who knows, I'll probably have gone back to marketing or owning my own company at that point.

Five years ago I was just hoping I could get out of bed in the morning. I also had a fantasy that I would some day be able to go to graduate school.

The goals didn't change and I'm definitely there. I moved from Los Angeles where I was miserable and I'm now in grad school.

I can't even imagine ten years from now. I just hope I'll be working as an archivist and that I'll be happy. Anything more would be icing on the cake.

Five years ago I was 23 and waiting tables to support myself while I took care of my sick mom. I was dating an ex-Marine who's now married with two kids.

Five years from now I'll be 33. I plan to be a nurse by then and have a couple years of experience under my belt. I'll still be living somewhere that has a backyard (for the dog) and maybe I'll have a 2nd dog by then. I'd also like to be married and have my car loan be a distant memory.

Ten years from now I'll be 38 (almost 40!). I plan to have a Bachelors in Nursing degree and to have thought about getting a Masters in Nursing. I'll have two dogs for sure and I'll still have the car I have now, which I love. I'll have been married for a few years and we might own a house. I hope I'm still in the Washington, D.C. area

Five years ago I'd just gotten married.

Things are almost exactly the same (same job, same house, same city, same husband) except now we have two kids.

I hope in 5 years we'll have moved to a different city (closer to our families) and have our third kid. As far as jobs go - as long as I have a job I'll probably be satisfied.

The addition of two kids seems HUGE!

Funny that this thread came up. I found my senior year HS yearbook the other day, and looked at my "senior profile". It's been a little over 5 years since I graduated. Under my Future Plans I listed:
-Go to Otterbein and become a journalist (check)
-Get married (check as of November)
-Start a revolution (still working on it)
-Go to Ireland (check x5)

I guess my goals for the next 10 years are to:
-Move back to Scotland. I've had enough of the USA. I'm working on this one right now, my visa is in processing.
-Become a museum curator (working on it)
-Own a home, preferably a 19th century tenement flat that I can restore.
-Finish an Ironman triathlon. Now that I've cracked the marathon, I think I can handle it with a bit more bike time.

Five years ago today, I was 25. I had just been initiated into my sorority eleven days earlier, so I was probably an insane neo doing insane neo things. I was also just recovering from having my gallbladder removed.

Around that same time, I was planning for grad school in the fall and developing a friendship with my current husband. I had my then-boyfriend arrested a few months later (he was abusive and a criminal in general) and I ran away to New York in August where I started my graduate program.

Now, I'm married and have one last requirement for the master's degree. We bought a house and two new cars within the past year and I have been serving my sorority as a national director since 2007. I'm currently also holding a second national directorship for which I was appointed last month.

In ten years, I will have just turned 40. I'm hoping to bring at least one child into the family through birth or adoption. I'm also hoping to be in a career that has meaning and is fulfilling. The one I'm in now makes me want to kill someone. In reality, though, I have done more than anyone could have imagined ten years ago when I was very sick and my family thought I would die.

Five years ago, I was 19. It was good times at GA Tech that semester - I was living in the complete wacky chaos of the Japanese language dorm, pledging OPhiA, trying to keep things under control as the chapter president of AIESEC, and preparing to go to Europe for study abroad that summer. This was also the time period when my now-husband and I went from "engaged to be engaged" to simply "engaged", although when exactly that occurred I really couldn't say. And back then, I had just started my epilepsy meds and still liked them - they made me skinny, so I was stupid and thrilled :rolleyes: So five years ago, I was pretty optimistic about the future - I was going to go into international business, make a good bit of money, travel all over the place, and have my husband, and maybe at a much later date some kids, at home.

Um ... yeah. Five years ago I was an idiot. In ten years, I will be about to turn 35. I hope to still be married to my husband (the same one), to have children, to be debt-free and have built up a good bit of savings, to be on the least amount of medication possible, and to have achieved/be on the way to achieving an advanced degree. Probably, at that point, I will think to myself, "Wow, ten years ago I was an idiot." I hope that I think so - it would be a shame not to have gotten smarter in ten years.