Qotd: Where do you see yourself in 10 years? (01/13)
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ChristineF
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Hopefully I will have found my dream job (just need to figure out what that is first) as the one I have now is hanging in a thin thread since the postal service is loosing so much money due to digitalisation and need to cut down on staff. My kids will be wellbehaved (hah who am I kidding) teenagers and my husband and I will travel the world, dragging the kids through this and that country.
tanyiadeskins
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Oh geez....I hardly ever look that far into the future. Hopefully done moving around and settled down somewhere on land with a farm and lots of animals.
cherrygutz
Sweet Shoppe SugarBabe
Hopefully I could work again you know. I really missed working. Then maybe I would have collected some medals from fun runs I would join (hehe). I missed running too.
LeeAndra
Sweet Shoppe SugarBabe
I've spent most of my adult life just surviving and making it paycheck to paycheck. There is no looking into the future when you're not sure how you'll make it through next week, KWIM?
I'm still adjusting to being able to make plans that far into the future. I know some goals that I have for myself & my family that I plan on making happen in the next 10 years --- buying a house, traveling internationally, taking the kids to Disney World, taking dancing & singing lessons --- but I don't know what I will be like or how my life will look in January 2028.
I'm still adjusting to being able to make plans that far into the future. I know some goals that I have for myself & my family that I plan on making happen in the next 10 years --- buying a house, traveling internationally, taking the kids to Disney World, taking dancing & singing lessons --- but I don't know what I will be like or how my life will look in January 2028.
LJSDesigns
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In ten years I will be close to retiring, OMG. I am not sure I am ready to look that far ahead. LOL
Sherri Tierney
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In 10 years my youngest should be graduating college. Its crazy to think about!
Neverland Scraps
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Ten years . . . .wow, I don't know really. Maybe in 10-years I'll be a grandmother (that's a scary thought). I'll have a 26, 23 and 15 year old and that's just scary to think about! :O In 10 years my husband should be retiring unless medical gets in the way before then. So like Adi, he'll be transitioning out of the Army and we'll be looking for a place to call home forever (golly that's such a scary word when you move every 2-3 years!). I don't know. I don't want to think about life in 10-years. I like being in the now and today! 
littlekiwi
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Exactly, 5 years ago I thought I’d be living in Canada, now I’m not sure if/when that might happen.
The realistic goals would be working, in good health
The slightly more ambitious goals would be a job i’m happy in, traveling, living overseas, in a relationship
It's amazing how fast it's going to go!! OMGosh. Lily will almost be 25 and Lucas will almost be 20.. goodness goodness goodness. I really don't know what we'll be doing I just hope we'll all be happy 
I hope I still have a job getting to be creative like I do now!
I hope I still have a job getting to be creative like I do now!
MamaBee
Sweet Shoppe SugarBabe
Jake will be 20 and in college - hubby has already hinted to me that I'll have to find a job that will make enough to pay for college. What that is, I don't know... I know I don't want to go back into corporate America for training again. I hope I figure out what I want to be when I grow up, quickly. :blink:
craftytam
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Oh wow!! 10 years sounds like a really long time, but it goes so quickly. By then, our boys should be done with college, and all of my kids will probably be married. Hopefully Kayla and Luke (and their boys) will move to Idaho so we can all be close again. Hopefully David & I will be travelling and doing some fun things together.
I've always thought I'd go back to school, but it seems pointless if I don't know what I want to do. So, if Kayla and her family move close, I can babysit and do fun things with the grandkids!
I've always thought I'd go back to school, but it seems pointless if I don't know what I want to do. So, if Kayla and her family move close, I can babysit and do fun things with the grandkids!
rach3975
New member
I have NO idea. My kids will be 24, 21, and 19. Thinking forward, so much depends on what's happening with my special needs kiddo (then 21). Right now I'm working as a preschool teacher. I love the job but not the pay. 
One of the biggest reasons I stay with it is that it I'm off any time the public schools are closed; it would be very hard to make good arrangements for Ben during summers and school vacations. Presumably there will come a point in time where either he doesn't need me home anymore or where I'll decide that it's never going to change and that I need to find a higher paying job that I can do from home. So 10 years from now I'll probably be working in a different career and 2 of my 3 kids will be out of the house. I think we'll still be in this general area because of Dan's job and wanting to stay in this school system throughout my kids' K-12 years, but we may not be in this house anymore.
One of the biggest reasons I stay with it is that it I'm off any time the public schools are closed; it would be very hard to make good arrangements for Ben during summers and school vacations. Presumably there will come a point in time where either he doesn't need me home anymore or where I'll decide that it's never going to change and that I need to find a higher paying job that I can do from home. So 10 years from now I'll probably be working in a different career and 2 of my 3 kids will be out of the house. I think we'll still be in this general area because of Dan's job and wanting to stay in this school system throughout my kids' K-12 years, but we may not be in this house anymore.