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Where do you see yourself in ten years?

  • 02-03-2016 10:59am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭


    Simple thread hopefully. In ten years hopefully be still doing something I love but maybe back in Ireland. Might have a few kids and a make the OH a respectable woman. In terms of travel I'd love to see the Amazon, Florence and Turkey.

    Hopefully in my travels between then and now I'll have made some new lifelong friends :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Don't say doing your wife, don't say doing your wife, don't say doing your wife.

    Doing your... son?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭turnikett1


    Settled in Ireland with a wife and children and tons of pets. Living out in the countryside brewing beer, growing weed and vegetables, repairing and crafting musical instruments for a living, reading history books, cooking elaborate meals and playing music in my sparetime. Well, that's certainly what I'm hoping for anyways!


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Is it bad that I don't think that far ahead? I have absolutely no clue what I'll be doing or where I'll be doing it in 10 years time. Or what I'll want to be doing more importantly!

    My only "plan" for the future is that I'd like in life is to live in Paris for a year at some point when I'm older and can afford to do it without needing to work. In an old apartment overlooking the Seine. If I was running a little cafe along there too it would be lovely, but would only like to do that if I wouldn't be worrying about it making a load of money.

    That's it. And that's not really in 10 years, just whenever I feel like it.

    I'm not one for making long long term plans. I know a few things I'd like to do within the next year - 18 months but that's about the height of it.

    10 years ago I wouldn't have put myself where I am now, but as the years went on the life I wanted changed with me. I can't see it being any different for the next 10 years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    I'll be 45


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    turnikett1 wrote: »
    Settled in Ireland with a wife and children. Living out in the countryside brewing beer, growing weed and vegetables, repairing and crafting musical instruments for a living.

    Groovy.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    On a beach in St Tropez with an expensive brandy in one hand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Is it bad that I don't think that far ahead? I have absolutely no clue what I'll be doing or where I'll be doing it in 10 years time. Or what I'll want to be doing more importantly!

    I'm the same. I've a few vague ideas of things I am pursuing / would like to pursue. But I like to leave most things fluid and see where life takes me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    I'll increase my experience and portfolio of projects. I also aim to achieve further professional qualifications and progress up the career path.

    Oh Jeez, I thought I was in a job interview for a minute there!


    In ten years time I aim to have built some really nice sand castles and perfected the art of making a lovely cup of tea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,731 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    The only thing I know for sure is that I'll be traipsing round every weekend watching Limerick FC plod their way round the pitch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    On a beach in St Tropez with an expensive brandy in one hand.

    Her name is rio and she dances on the sand...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Is it bad that I don't think that far ahead? I have absolutely no clue what I'll be doing or where I'll be doing it in 10 years time. Or what I'll want to be doing more importantly!

    My only "plan" for the future is that I'd like in life is to live in Paris for a year at some point when I'm older and can afford to do it without needing to work. In an old apartment overlooking the Seine. If I was running a little cafe along there too it would be lovely, but would only like to do that if I wouldn't be worrying about it making a load of money.

    That's it. And that's not really in 10 years, just whenever I feel like it.

    I'm not one for making long long term plans. I know a few things I'd like to do within the next year - 18 months but that's about the height of it.

    10 years ago I wouldn't have put myself where I am now, but as the years went on the life I wanted changed with me. I can't see it being any different for the next 10 years.

    Nah it's not. It's definitely a much healthier way of living. Another thing I'd like to do different in ten years is stop living in the past and future mentally and concentrate more on the present. Mindfulness is great for that.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,517 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    No idea. Hopefully have more of a social circle awith better career prospects and income potential.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I tend not to look that far ahead any more.

    Most likely, 6ft under in ten years time.

    I'm definitely not thinking that far ahead.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    I hate that question in interviews ... what do they want me to say ??


    Sitting on my hole on a beach hopefully - but realistically working for some c'unt like you here Mr. Interviewer (and im addressing an imaginary interviewer here - not the OP :) ) in the same IT field that I used to love and have a passion for , but now red tape and bureaucracy has taken the fun out of it ....

    :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Probably reading some inane thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    osarusan wrote: »
    The only thing I know for sure is that I'll be traipsing round every weekend watching Limerick FC plod their way round the pitch.

    Bohs man meself.. I feel your pain.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    facedown in the dirt....nah probably still satisfying my nomadic tendencies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭drake70


    Playing Fallout 8* on my PlayBox 2
    :cool:





    *Fallout 5 & 6 were scrapped due to too many glitches


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭8 Bit Girl


    Your Face wrote: »
    Probably reading some inane thread.

    Start a riveting thread yourself then since you reply to every bleedin thread in AH with the same sarcastic answer.

    Op- I dont know, went back to college so that has me tied up for the next 3 years or so, but maybe working abroad. Looking out the window now to wind and rain and I see pics of family memberz in Australia on FB in the sun and heat. Fook.This.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    I'd like to have an enjoyable job, a healthy, happy family, and a comfortable existence in a nice semi-detached in south Dublin. But if there's one thing the last ten years have taught me, it's that any attempt to guess where I'll be in another ten years will probably be totally wide of the mark. So much stuff, good and bad, will happen along the way. I might die in a freak accident, win the lotto, end up in jail for a crime I didn't commit, become homeless, find God...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Am I being interviewed for a job?



    Did I get it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭thattequilagirl


    Should hopefully be fairly established in my career by then. I'd love to have made enough money to travel for a year without struggling for money. Ideally, I'd love to be location-independent; working on a freelance basis anywhere with a decent wifi connection.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭kevohmsford


    In a mirror


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    In a mirror

    Front page?


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 976 ✭✭✭beach_walker


    2026 used to seem so far away... I'd hope to be settled down and leading a happy life with wife and kids. Workwise I can't ever see myself leaving the software dev coalface so I imagine it'll be much the same but hopefully it's a nice job that I enjoy. Not so sure if all this will in Ireland, I lean towards not...

    If that doesn't happen, then I can see myself spending my days getting pissed in driver-less cars and hurling abuse at the onboard computer. Ideally one of those Johnny-cabs from Total Recall.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,694 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Christ knows.

    Probably in Dublin. Probably working. Doing other sh*t I enjoy doing.

    I don't really know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,366 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Once we're all healthy and I'm still working in a similar job to what I'm doing now, I'll be happy out tbh. My eldest will be in his 2nd/3rd year of college and my youngest will be gearing up for her Leaving Cert. We'll hopefully have our own home by then and a good few years paid off the mortgage leaving us with enough of my salary to pursue a couple of hobbies and go for a holiday once a year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    At least double my present post count


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭12Phase


    Hopefully not reading boards.ie on my iPhone connected contact lenses.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    I'll also probably still have this song stuck in my head, thanks to this thread :(




    (And now so will all of you, hopefully :P)


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Possibly dead or, if not, in slow recovery after a massive heart attack.


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Reading the new Song of Ice and fire book, while listening to the new tool album and playing half life 3.

    I'm an optimist.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭drake70


    Reading the new Song of Ice and fire book, while listening to the new tool album and playing half life 3.

    I'm an optimist.

    And back modding AH?


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    drake70 wrote: »
    And back modding AH?

    We'll see how the therapy goes

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭Firefox11




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,411 ✭✭✭✭woodchuck


    If I believed in God, I think he would be p1ssing himself at all our "plans"!

    You just have to roll with the punches to a certain extent... there's only so much you can plan for!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Drawing my occupational pension - ka-ching.

    Hopefully not having lost any family members or friends along the way, though that's unlikely to be true :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    I be sixty four :-( thanks steddyeddy...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    I tend not to look that far ahead any more.

    Most likely, 6ft under in ten years time.

    I'm definitely not thinking that far ahead.

    I know from previous interactions over the years that your probably of a vintage that's entitled to a free travel pass Madelyn Uptight Denim. But an attitude like that and you'll be lucky to see ten years. I've an uncle aged 74,who snorts coke,rides women younger than myself,smokes hash,spends his days in bookies and pubs and generally lives a pretty hedonistic lifestyle. But I reckon if he gave it all up in the morning I'd be carrying his coffin in six months.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    No idea where/what il be doing in a years time no kind 10 years!!


    But hopefully it'll be good craic on the way there :D:D
    And il be pure healthy


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Hopefully without children


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Preferably still alive and hopefully watching a documentary narrated by a near-100 year old David Attenborough. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,904 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Should hopefully be fairly established in my career by then. I'd love to have made enough money to travel for a year without struggling for money. Ideally, I'd love to be location-independent; working on a freelance basis anywhere with a decent wifi connection.


    You won't be working in rural Galway so!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    You won't be working in rural Galway so!

    Frankfurt is full of rural Galwegians I hear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭KingMonkey


    in a mirror :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Early 40s, hopefully still happily married with a couple of kids, hopefully haven't been too mammy-tracked at work, still fit and healthy etc.


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