Classic question

Demetrius

One of the stickiest questions that can be given to you in an interview is the question,

"Where do you find yourself in 5 years?"

It has always been the most difficult one for me to answer. I'm half tempted half the time to retort, "to be a roustabout on an oil-rig", or "a squaddie in Norn Iron."

So boarders, where do you see yourself in 5 years?

What goals do you hope to achieve in such areas as relationships, career, finances, and travelling?

GreenHell

Single, Self employed, loaded and yes.

aidan_walsh

"Don't say 'Doing your wife'! Don't say 'Doing your wife'!"

connundrum

aidan_walsh wrote:

"Don't say 'Doing your wife'! Don't say 'Doing your wife'!"

Doing your ma?

I'll either be a self employed person who is under investigation for tax fraud... or a Detective Inspector with the Guards. A tale of two lives eh.. :rolleyes:

Mrs_Doyle

I remember falling out with my friend because I said I would own my own home and be a millionaire by the time I was 25, and she wouldn't believe me.

Well, the joke is most definitely on me. Unless I manage a lotto win sometime soon it looks like my pal may have been right.

I was so determined to have it all worked out by 25, the career, the house, the car, the works!

So in answer to your question, I would love nothing more then to be uber successful in every aspect of my little world, but I am not gonna tempt fate.

For all I know I could still be working in this sh1tty office in 5 years time!!

petes

Hopefully self employed. I don't really mind/care if I owned my own house. But as Mrs Doyle says "Don't tempt fate", you don't know what is around the corner.

I see myself happy!

Sam Vimes

aidan_walsh wrote:

"Don't say 'Doing your wife'! Don't say 'Doing your wife'!"

doin your....son

Just The One

Somewhere warm, sitting by the pool sipping pina coladas - did I mention that I usually go on holidays this time of year.

Dave!

In the army

Tha Gopher

Demetrius wrote:

What goals do you hope to achieve in such areas as relationships, career, finances, and travelling?

My mate once answered "at the bottom of a lake"

ahahaha......seriouslly, maybe ya had to be there:rolleyes:

Career: Rich as fcuk obviously. Im givng consideration into going into acting tbh, ive been told im good, and seeing as Richard Harris is dead and Farrells off the gargle, drugs and groupies the world is just crying out for a new dashingly handsome alcoholic Irish sex machine hellraising actor.

If that doesnt go well ill just try advance up the corporate ladder i guess

Finances: Ive always vowed the last thing i want to do is be paying a 35 year mortgage to buy a house in some ghetto in Blanch. Its a fcukin stranglehold. Id love to have a house paid for before 30

Relationships: I dunno, not sure i want the family and all till 27/28 or so, and ill be 25 in 5 years. And as those who read the "ugly birds" thread know I cant lessen myself to having anything less than the model type

Travelling: I dunno, im workin full time now, mates say theyre going to Australia but it will never happen. Fraid by the time im 25 ill have been lucky to get two trips to the med, the odd weekend in Amsterdam and one or two in the new party cities in Eastern Europe like Riga or Prague.

Terry

i'm hoping to have a different career. not self employed though. too much hassle.

MrJoeSoap

Canada, living in a house on many acres, flying planes for a living, and having a dog.

Angels

Happily Married, enjoying married life & travelling together to New Zealand.

joe_chicken

All interview questions are BOLLOX!

I hate interviews

John Mason

i will be in my forties and slowly sinking into the madness of spinsterhood. i will have started my stray dog collection and will have started stacking and storaging papers in one room. my reputation with the neighbour kid children as being a witch will just about be starting and i might have stopped washing frequently by then too:D

kmick

Ths standard answer to this is one that shows progression.

For Example
Engineer - ...I hope to be a lead engineer..
Salesman -...I hope to be sales manager...
Forecourt Attendant-...I hope to be assistant forecourt manager..

The answer is immaterial as long as it shows progression. Interviews are like tarot card readings you tell people what they want to hear not some version of the truth.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Sitting here in the same chair rolling my eyes as a 2011-reg user posts this exact same fúcking thread.

Terry

i don't think you'll have to wait until 2011. give it a month.

Black Swan

In a little two bedroom cottage with a sea view, maybe in County Cork, co-authoring novels with my one and only.:cool:

daiixi

Back in Australia living in my own flat/house. Doing something to do with law and dating a hot Australian! By then will have done most of the travelling I want to do so will be able to knuckle down to getting the mortgage paid.

Feral Mutant

In five years, I plan to be the interviewer of new employees.:D

scojones

Running the company I currently work for.

Agamemnon

Well off and waiting for Heather Graham to give birth to our first child.

Ruu_Old

julep wrote:

i'm hoping to have a different career. not self employed though. too much hassle.

What julep said, I'm getting tired of compooter repairs.:)

Sangre

Being a qualified solicitor working in a big firm for big bucks.

Demetrius

Feral Mutant wrote:

In five years, I plan to be the interviewer of new employees.:D

:)Was wondering when someone would say that! The ultimate way to get back at all those young Yuppie whippersnappers

Demetrius

Mmmm... my dream in 5 years time is to have been married for 5 years and be granted 5 children.

Lust4Life

Dem, I hated that question too when I was searching for a job.
my answer was "Well, up until recently, I saw myself at my previous job in 5 years, but that's not going to happen now, is it???"


I see myself earning big bucks as a radiologic technician, owning my own home, and having the money to travel at will!

Oh, and also, 5 years from today... I'll be having a REALLY great hair day too!

bringitdown

A multi - millionaire who funds 80's movie remakes that only star monkeys.

Days of Thunder, Top Gun, all with monkeys.

bounty

im going to be on about double my current salary in 5 years

Sangre wrote:

Being a qualified solicitor working in a big firm for big bucks.

ah, thats why you argued for the law

Tar.Aldarion

Happy or dead or sad or rich or poor or alive.
Possibly an engieer married to avril lavigne.

bluto63

In college studying engineering, writing my first multi-platinum record

I'm aiming high

Wacker

Celebrating the five year anniversary of you asking me that question!


Ten points if you can tell me who I just ripped off.

bounty

eddie murphy?

il gatto

I've avoided the sort of jobs where you would be asked that in an interview. It's an annoying non-question which you'll never get a straight answer to. Of course by avoiding such jobs, I find myself where I am. Doh:(
Hopefully I'll be married to my fiance, living in a house with a small mortgage we could afford. Preferably with no neighbours nearby, and enough money to indulge myself in my interests. Kids? You never know.
Work wise? I don't care because I'll be happy enough at whatever I'm doing, because life's too short.

BrokenArrows

never had a job that would require the interviewer asking that question.

out of all the jobs i have had if i was asked that, the truthfull answer would have to be "not working here".

But in 5 years i suppose i would like to have some sort of a career going. Im currently traveling around australia. When i finish traveling ill probably do another year in college to refresh my memory on programming and all that cumputer jazz and of course to get another qualification.

But screw all that i just bought a lotto ticket. 22 Million it is. That would be just enough to get me through the next 5 years.:D

Naked Lepper

in 5 years ill either be dead or alive. id say.

WunderFull

Getting my life together, in a middle range job, doing the odd bit of travelling, possibly engaged or married, yeah.

Demetrius

Demetrius wrote:

One of the stickiest questions that can be given to you in an interview is the question,

"Where do you find yourself in 5 years?"

It has always been the most difficult one for me to answer. I'm half tempted half the time to retort, "to be a roustabout on an oil-rig", or "a squaddie in Norn Iron."

So boarders, where do you see yourself in 5 years?

What goals do you hope to achieve in such areas as relationships, career, finances, and travelling?

In 5 years the plan is that I'll have a phd, be somewhere abroad with it...
that's about it
don't care about relationships, finances etc as long as I'm not miserable

EOA_Mushy

GreenHell wrote:

Single, Self employed, loaded and yes.

Says it all realy... :cool:

Mrs. MacGyver

Decentralised to Cork! Owning my own renovate gate lodge or old farm house somewhere near Bandon.
Working a subsidiary job (in the evenings) as a conservation archaeologist (if i complete the MA in Arch.)
Happy after living in Canada for a year.

Terry

i don't want to put a dampner on things, but being self employed is not all it is cracked up to be.
the general public are a fickle bunch and will try anything to get out of paying you.
like the woman who put a marble on her bathroom sink and told us that we hadn't put the sink back in properly because the marble rolled and it shouldn't have rolled. she was told to **** off, but you can't do that all the time.

cournioni

I see myself managing the family business that I am in at the moment. Travelling and/or building a new house for myself. Possibly settling down with a chick too...

Bedhead

Is it too obvious to say that I want to have won the lotto and be living it up? Yes - oh well then in reality I just want to be healthy, happy and for family and friends to be the same.

God that was a bit mushy. Should I point out that in general I am a hard ass but this sunny friday morning is making me all happy...

weiiser1

irishbird wrote:

i will be in my forties and slowly sinking into the madness of spinsterhood. i will have started my stray dog collection and will have started stacking and storaging papers in one room. my reputation with the neighbour kid children as being a witch will just about be starting and i might have stopped washing frequently by then too:D

Two stray children and a smelly dog, you can have the collection now.

Bob the Builder

Receiving my LC results, doing well, but not reaching my full potential
Driving a car and having a full license, I hope to have my own, maybe not...
Making Money Programming Websites and fixing comps
having a state of the art computer workstation
travelling, maybe one holiday per year

As for non personal things:
Goverment in a mess
Global Warming
Such a High Population, no1 can breathe

Boards:
Still maintaining the same idiots it's got now
reaching 750,000 people chatting
the usual that we all expect

JaysusMacfeck

I'll probably still be sitting at my computer drinking Tuborg (if the 6-for-7 deal is still on)