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

cheerfulgreek · #1 10-02-2008, 05:22 PM

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?

KSUViolet06 · #2 10-02-2008, 06:17 PM

Five years ago, I was just a college freshman. My goals for my life have changed so much since then. For example, throughout most of college, I was totally sure I wanted to be a HS teacher and that I NEVER wanted to get married or have kids.

These have obviously changed as I've gotten older and had some time to think (and have been asked this alot in terviews and such):

In 10 years I would like to be:

*a licensed psychologist working with veterans with disabilities.
*living on the west coast again.
*a mom to one kid (maybe 2).
*married.
*doing something to help raise awareness about issues concerning disabled veterans in this country.
*finishing up my first book.

These are subject to change, especially the career-related ones. I don't want to be a rocket scientist or anything, I just want to be able to talk to people about their problems and get paid for it.

Dionysus · #3 10-02-2008, 06:20 PM

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.

ThetaPrincess24 · #4 10-02-2008, 06:40 PM

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

nikki1920 · #5 10-02-2008, 07:51 PM

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

still working to pay for above item

be happy
still on GC reviewing this thread and seeing how far I've come

XSK_Diamond · #6 10-02-2008, 10:29 PM

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.

cheerfulgreek · #7 10-03-2008, 03:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dionysus

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.

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.

cheerfulgreek · #8 10-03-2008, 04:03 AM

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.

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

Elephant Walk · #9 10-03-2008, 04:12 AM

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

I think it's pretty possible.

AGDee · #10 10-03-2008, 05:36 AM

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.

KSigkid · #11 10-03-2008, 09:25 AM

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.

RU OX Alum · #12 10-03-2008, 09:41 AM

rocking out or tending bar

either way, i'd be happy

Munchkin03 · #13 10-03-2008, 10:08 AM

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.

Kevin · #14 10-03-2008, 10:10 AM

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.

APhi Sailorgirl · #15 10-03-2008, 10:10 AM

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.