Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
 

Okay, thats a question I get a lot, so I am asking all of you. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? For me, in 10 years I will be 34. I want to have a wonderful husband, 2 kids(probaley both under the age of 5, because I don't have my prince charming yet and I want a long courtship and engagement). I want to be a part time volunteer coordinater for a major non-profit and most importantly, a RANGE ROVER SOCCER MOM! And I will probaley still be in Atlanta, because I LOVE this city!! So have at it, guys--where will you be in 10 years?

in ten years i'll be about 29/30 i'll be in the process of working my way up to partner of a law firm :D I see myself engaged - maybe a newlywed BUT no kids just yet. I will most likely be living in chicago because i love that city to death, probably downtown chicago, in one of those gorgeous apartments overlooking Lake michigan (when the kids come we're moving to the 'burbs) I will be serving on city councils and boards, and very active in the Dem. party, so that eventually, when I decided to run for the Senate or House, i have my name out there and plenty of local political experience!

Plenty of travel behind me and in the future is a must - I love going to new places!

ten years. Hmm, hopefully, I'll be close to graduating. lol, not, now seriously.

In 10 years, I'll reside in Northern Virginia, with a wife of 3 years, and one child, a boy...Jarvik. I'll work for a corporation like Sony as a patent lawyer trying to work his way up the food chain. I'll also coach local soccer clubs, but only club, not recreational. Also, I'll be living close to my sister so I'll be able to be the good uncle to my nieces, and perhaps coach them in soccer, as well. I'll definitely be driving my Defender around despite the fact it isn't exactly the most professional looking of all cars, but I won't mind. I'll still have all my hair, and be in fair shape, running when I can.

10 yrs I'll be 35/36. Wive, 2 kids, and a pet turtle. Probably be somewhere in Asia Pacific and still cursing at the NY Rangers for being a bad hockey team. Celebrating the new Giants dynasty. Cursing at the NY Knicks, again. Hopefully will be up in career ladder and try to become the regional boss for some big firm like KPMG or JP Morgan. Or start a revolution in some small country and proclaim myself a dictator.

in ten years ...
 

I will be 32, a newspaper editor or pr executive, married to a former UK basketball player or MLB baseball player. Wed have a permanent home in Southern California - most likey Orange County. We'd have two children - Elizabeth Josephine whose 3 and Anthony Joseph whose 1. And I will have horses not at myhouse but at a barn. And well live on or near the beach.

alphachiohmy
I've got connections to the UofK basketball/football team, if U of Kentucky is who you're talking about. Which one do you want?

In 10 years I see myself in a mirror. Or any other reflective surface. Anything else is still up for grabs.

Cory
Scott Padgett ideally. Hes got to be lonley up there in Utah. You wouldn't think thered be much up there - not to knock Utah or anything.

I used to have a little crush on Travis Ford, but hes a little older and tied up at WKU.

This years team is pretty young - Blevins is very cute, however.

As long as I am not face down in a gutter somewhere, I'll be happy.

Just like Ed McMahon says, Keep reaching for the stars.:)

Seriously, I dont know and dont care. As long as I am happy and those I love are healthy and happy, I'll be pleased. as one of the older (in age) GC'ers around here (But still WAY under 30...not that theres anything wrong with that) I have learned a few things. Life seldom turns out as you planned. (Can I get a brotha' Earp to back me up on this? Hows about a shout out from justamom, maybe carniation?) I have also learned that "normal" is nothing more than the setting on my washer/dryer.

Its ok and fun to imagine the future, just as long as its only for fun, and not a serious "do or die" plan. If it is a do or die plan, you are setting yourself up for failure. We can only controll our destiny, not the destiny of others. I had several plans that I was to have achieved by signposts in my life. After a while I wondered if they were really the goals I wanted, or I just wanted them because I had wanted them for so long. The answer was the latter. I felt a lot better after I realized that.

My hope is that in 10 years we are all still chatting away here on GC.;)

I totally agree with what Lifesaver said, you can never plan or judge the future, too many things happen to alter things. I also don't really care where I am or what I'm doing, as long as I am happy and so are the others around me. I would like to be married and have a family, you know, the American Dream, but at this point, that's what it is, a dream and nothing more. I don't even know where I'll see myself tomorrow let alone 10 years from now, I'll just take it as the days go by, and find myself where I end up :)

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alphachiohmy
Though JP Blevins is more my age, I'm pretty good friends with his elder brother from this thing called Governor's Scholar. Anyway. remember Jared Prickett? My sister used to date him, and often went on double dates with people like Mashburn. That was around Padget's time too. Ford's married off, I believe, but he'd probably be a good match since he wouldn't dwarf you like some of the others. We should get ya hooked up with Blevins, though I don't personally know him, I know other members of the fam, so if he's anything like them, then you're coo

Here's your shoutout, lifesaver!

Yes, it's true, most of you will likely be doing things you never would've imagined in 10 years. How do I know? Ask anyone else who's just had their thirtieth (:rolleyes: ) high school reunion what the main topic was. It was probably, "I never in a thousand years thought I'd be doing___someday," followed by, "Life has a funny way of turning out, doesn't it?"

That doesn't mean you shouldn't have dreams and goals! You should! It's just that you shouldn't insist that you'll just die if life doesn't turn out a certain way. You may not get one thing but what you do get may be better.

I'd always thought I'd be a famous agriculture professor at one of the major land grant universities. It didn't pan out because right after I got my doctorate, the President cut hundreds of jobs in my field and now I'm teaching Spanish at a smaller college. My big reward--a fabulous husband and 13 super kids (no, I never planned that!) Other rewards--working in the large international community here, helping other people adopt internationally as we did with 5 of ours. Life is so satisfying...

So dream! Plan! But always be open to whatever comes along!

of course guys, keep in mind that the title of this thread is 'Where do you see yourself in 10 years?' and not 'What will you commit suicide over if you're not doing in 10 years?' The attitude of just hoping you'll be happy in 10 years and just live for today causes you to not set goals. You can't say I want to set goals but have absolutely no plans for tomorrow, that's quite contradictory. Carnation said it well. Dream! Plan! Set goals, you have to do this to survive in this overbearing world. This can also teach you to adapt. I understand the point you wished to convey, I do. But as I said, you cannot not care what you'll be doing for the future and still set goals in life, that's two completely conflicting philosophies, isn't it?

well..I see it as no contradiction at all. I would like to be married..have a family..all that good stuff..but, that is in the future far from now. My only goal at this point is to graduate from school then move onto grad school or law school, after that, I can begin to realize who and what I want to be. Depending on what route I take in life will ultimately decide on how soon I want to get married and start a family, so I don't see any of that as contradiciting. Funnier, I don't know what shape I will be in or what my hair will look like. Whatever happens, happens.

d

Go ahead, set me up! But, I don't know if I am Kentucky basketball star girlfriend material - Blevins might be a little out of my league - no pun intended. Though I have gotten hit on hard by a St Louis Rams player.


I sent you a message, too.

In ten years I' ll only be 32 which is still quite young, so I can see myself being single still and enjoying it.

However, I would like to have made my way to Junior Partner in a law firm. Have maybe at most 2 kids by then (Total soccer mom like AOPiLaLa, but my mini van will be a Jeep Chereokee or Dodge Durango). I would also liked to have done a little traveling by then. Also making a name for myself in the political world, by either starting out on a school board committee or city council.

Gosh, I don't even know what I want to be doing next month, much less think about when I'm 30.
Crazy.

I do want kids though, eventually.
Two kids.
A cat, a dog, a husband, and a nice house with a white pickett fence.

:)
My kids are named too-

As long as whoever I marry doesnt mind.
hehe.

Jess

In ten years, I will be 30. Hopefully, I will already be married. I probably would have just had my first kid or would be pregnant with my first child (I don't want to start having kids til I'm 29...I want to build a career first). I want to be working as a fashion buyer for a big chain department store such a Bloomingdale's or Nordstrom.

Wow...a lot of married aspiring lawyers here!

I think I'll just stick to my fine marketing job...it's great and I love it. As for the marriage thing, well if Steve Finley from the D-backs becomes available, then so be it. Otherwise, I'll probably be single :) As for kids, well, hey, I have a hard enough time making mac and cheese for myself at 27! :)

In 10 years I'll be 42. Yikes. :)

I will have won an Oscar for best original or adpated screenplay at 40, so I will be busy busy busy writing. I'll be married, living in a house with a pool in the Hills above Sunset Plaza, with 2 kids--Meghan Claire and Ryan Thomas--probably under the age of 5 since I am completely single now, ha ha, and 2 dogs.

I will also have made millions 10 years prior from the sale of tv pilot with writing partner and friend Erika and will be living largely off the syndication of the original idea. :D

I will have an apartment in Paris where I will retreat to when I need solitude to write.

I'll serve on the board of Women in Hollywood, and RIF (reading is fundamental).

:)
Amy

Teaching college history.

I will still be married and my girl or boy will be 9 years old by then and hopefully will have a sibling also. I pray our dog Shasta is still alive and kickin and that my husband finally gives up the fight and agrees with me to move to a nice Chicago suburb.

Since I have a fear of ever working for someone younger than me... I am hoping one of my friends strikes it rich and needs a personal assistant. Amy and Erika are looking like good bets!

Other than that- I hope I have tons of good friends, my family can count on me always and my kids never end up on Jerry Springer!

In 10 years, I'll be 31. Hopefully, I will be married for 5+ years. No kids just yet. Maybe.

I hope to be working as an intellectual property attorney, living in either New Orleans, or Mandeville (the 'burb where I live now).

Who knows what else. I can't wait to see! :D

Wow ten years...that's more than half of my life that I've lived so far...

I guess I'll be 28 and half in exactly 10 years (today--Oct 30-- is my half B-day)

I'll be in my third year of residency as an Orthopedic surgeon, in a large hospital, hopefully in Colorado as I love the mountains and skiing. I'll have a beautiful wife (some sorority chick :D) of almost five years with one daughter--Penelope Melinda--who will be under a year old.
Assuming that I do indeed initiate in January, then in ten years I will be an active donor to Beta Theta Pi and the Alpha Tau chapter. I'll try to make it back as often as possible for Homecoming or my chapters Alumni Golf tournament.

Depending on my schedule I'd love to coach club soccer, which would also keep me in shape. Either that or golf as much as possible. Once I finally got to practice I'd make sure that I was a mentor for High School students interested in medicine, due to my own experience with several doctors who mentored me this past year.

Other than those things as much traveling as possible, cruises mainly. That and with my close proximity to the mountains a lot of skiing, hopefully I could go in with some friends either from Beta and/or Med school/residency and buy a cabin in a ski town like Aspen or Breckinridge.
So that's the goal, and I have a lot of faith in myself that I can reach it.

We are actually having an exchange with Sigma Chi this month with this exact theme. I can only imagine what those boys have planned!

In 10 years, I will be 29. I will hopefully be married to a wonderful fraternity man. We will have spent our early days of marriage traveling and enjoying eachother. I don't want to set too much a future because I intend to plan it with my future husband. Therefore, number of kids, where we will live, and such will have to be a mutual selection. Because whatever makes him happy is something that I will strive to attain in our marriage.

But in an ideal picture, I would be a highly educated mother.;) I would have worked intensely for the first few years of my career . As I worked my way up the advertising/business...(I'm only 2nd year...I still have time!)...ladder I will begin to balance family and work. Hopefully having the ability to do conferencing at home. I will drive a suburban, pick up the kids from soccer practice, and make wonderful homecooked meals for my family. I will have freshly baked cookies or brownies when my children get home on Fridays. The laundry will be in the machine while I go shop for groceries and play tennis at our country club with old college sorority sisters and such. My children will be a very integral part of my life, yet I will set aside a bit of time each day to have a glass of wine with my husband and let us share our days or just relax. My family will go to holiday parties and my boys will "go over to Bobby's house" after school on those random days. Gosh, this is sounding oh so cliche....

This is the life of most of the mothers where I grew up, so it's set the standard I suppose. Then again, fate could have me on a farm in Denmark with a husband who raises dairy cows. Who knows? I just want to look back and say that I never regretted a thing.

pbpck

In ten years, I'll be 33..oh my gosh...

I'll never drive a minivan or suburban(no offense to those who want to ). If I have kids, I'll never let them watch Teletubbies or Barney. Hopefully, I'll have kids...maybe..if I can put up with them...I may be married, but who knows..that could also happen when I'm 80 with a gazillion cats. Academically, I'll either be an Advanced Nurse Practioner, or finished with med school. I don't know, because what I've figured out so far is that nothing EVER EVER happens the way you plan it. Hopefully I'll be happy, healthy, and still surrounded by people who I love (who are also happy and healthy :) )

In 10 years, I'll be 36.

I'm already married to a wonderful guy and we have the house in the 'burbs (with the accompanying big mortgage :( ).

We will have 1 daughter (future AEPhi ;) ) and 1 son, and hopefully a cat (my husband is allergic, but I hear there's a company working on hypoallergenic cats...)

I will be a VP Engineering with my present employer - one of the few surviving dot.coms. Or with some other company. Either way, big responsibility, and big salary. ;)

I will drive an SUV. (You need 'em in New England :) - besides, I want to be a little woman in a BIG SUV <g> ) No station wagons or minivans for me - they're hell to parallel park :D

Hey amycat

Maybe you can use your USC power to hook me up with Carson Palmer as my future husband, eh? ;)

pbpck

Hey...good name for your daughter, Carolyn!;) My little girls(if I have girls) will be either Taylor Madison, Claire McKenzie, Piper, or Blaze. For my boys Ethan Rustin and/or Joshua Jared.

In ten years....I see myself happy and having fun.

Now, that could entail a lot of things. Maybe I'll be a high school history teacher/baseball coach. That would be cool. Maybe I'll be a sportswriter on a good newspaper (Boston Globe, LA Times, one of the Chicago papers, etc.) Maybe I'll be married to a beautiful, fun woman who I absolutely love. Maybe I'll have kids, a son who I can teach sports too and play catch with, maybe a daughter who I'm going to be protective as hell of (I have a little sister, so I've gotten good practice being protective of her)

All I know is, I'm going to be happy and having fun, and that's what's important.

HEHE!!!
 

Still trying to run for President with this Cabinent from the Nursing Home:D

In 10 years, I will be 32! I see myself married to one LUCKY man! heehee! I want LOTS of kids too. I have always said that I want six kids: 3 boys and 3 girls. I also want twins...too bad twins don't run in my family! I guess I'll have to find a guy who has twins in his!
By then, I'll probably have 2 kids (Clayton and Ashtyn) and been married for 4 years. I am not sure if I'll still be in Orlando, but I know I want to be SOMEWHERE in Florida- maybe West Palm or St Pete. I want a huge house on the beach and an SUV- not sure what kind yet.
I also want to be a famous country singer, selling out concerts everynight, and being seen on CMT. :D

In ten years....
 

I will be 29, living with my GORGEOUS fraternity husband:D in New England somewhere. We will have my two Labrador puppies and a cat. I will be the owner of a cute little restaurant/bakery.(I love to cook!) We will have plenty of money, for he will be some really great business man. I want 2-4 kids. 2 Girls: Bella Jolie, and Maitland Adair,(ADPi Legacies) and 2 Boys: Tristan Chyler, and Ashton Parker. I want to drive a Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo, or a Chevy Tahoe. But most of all I want to be happy and know that I am really loved and the ones I love are being taken care of.:)
-Ryan

I would have said in ten years I'll be retired --- until the damned stock market went South!

This is a favorite question during job interviews -- As a manager, I've even asked it a few times myself -- even though I think it's a really silly question in that context. What the hell are they supposed to say? "I want your job!" How trite.

Anyway...

When asked in an interview, I used to tell people I wanted to be the night manager at the Breezewood, PA Holiday Inn. (Actually, I don't even know if there is a Holiday Inn -- there is a Breezewood, PA, though.) It used to shock the heck out of the broadcast "executives" who were hiring me. They were generally speechless for a minute or two.

As it is, I guess I'll try to stay on the good side of President Earp so I can build up that great government pension.

On tv. Hopefully for something good. :p If I apply for any of these reality shows, I am pretty confident that I may be casted, or at least make it to the finals.

Definately not in jail! Unlike one person suggested.
I'll hate to admit this, but I am not all that bad. I'm not some anti-social crackhead. :)