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Charz777
27-03-2014, 09:04 PM
I know people who don't like to plan anything, and to just take life as it comes. Personally, I'm a planner.

Do you know where you want to be in the next 1, 5, 10 years? And are you actively moving towards those goals, ie for a career perhaps?

Are you the sort of person who has an idea of their career, where they'll live, how they'll pay for it (an idea of your income for the next few years), whether or not you want to get married, have children, travel and so on?

Or is choosing your next subjects at school as far as you're willing to think ahead?

I'm just curious because I've pretty much planned out the next 5 years with Kardan; obviously with flexibility in things like holidays, and other fun thing. But for all the serious, real-life stuff, I like to think I've got an idea of how it's going to be.

What about everyone else?

Aiden
27-03-2014, 09:05 PM
I haven't planned anything because I don't know what I want to be when I'm older. Probably go to college and then idk. Hopefully I will pick something to do this year but I doubt it... :/

OHH DIDN'T READ ALL UR POST...

STUFF I WANT OKAY...

I'm not sure if I want to get married because I can't pick any clothes and I'm poor and no one wll marry me but I would like to lol.

Also, I don't know about kids either. I will probs adopt one but if I have enough money then surrogate mother. ;)

Kyle
27-03-2014, 09:10 PM
I barely plan what I'm going to do the next week let alone in 5 years. I guess I have broad ideas of whre I'd like to be within certain timeframes like short-term finishing essay by x deadline and long term having a job by y time but nothing too meticulous.

j0rd
27-03-2014, 09:10 PM
do you have kids or get married or something in your next planned 5 years
we need habbox babies or a habbox marriage

but no, i've thought about what i want to do when I leave uni but nothing more really

scottish
27-03-2014, 09:11 PM
I know people who don't like to plan anything, and to just take life as it comes. Personally, I'm a planner.

Do you know where you want to be in the next 1, 5, 10 years? And are you actively moving towards those goals, ie for a career perhaps?

Are you the sort of person who has an idea of their career, where they'll live, how they'll pay for it (an idea of your income for the next few years), whether or not you want to get married, have children, travel and so on?

Or is choosing your next subjects at school as far as you're willing to think ahead?

I'm just curious because I've pretty much planned out the next 5 years with Kardan; obviously with flexibility in things like holidays, and other fun thing. But for all the serious, real-life stuff, I like to think I've got an idea of how it's going to be.

What about everyone else?

I like to plan the soon future, I have in my mind what I want over longer term but don't really 'plan' it.

Like I have a general guideline of where I want to be at specific times, but no specific target to be if you get what I mean. Planning stuff like job etc is unpredictable as might lose it, not get as much as you want etc :p

As time comes closer will be more planned out (like year ahead kinda thing).

buttons
27-03-2014, 09:12 PM
ive never really saw myself in the future lmao
honestly am hoping for an average life. don't have expectations for a big career, don't know if ill go for future study. i wouldn't mind allowing my hubby to get most the money and me working part time plus taking care of the house and any kids.
honestly i think just gonna go with the flow and take any opportunity i can, i think i can be happy with average. i just wanna live comfortably and relatively care free.
have planned to move away from this town next year though n see where life takes me

Inseriousity.
27-03-2014, 09:16 PM
same as kyle, broad ideas, no timetable. I do my best to get closer to my goals everyday but not getting too stressed about it if it doesn't work out the way I'd planned it in meticulous detail.

Jurv
27-03-2014, 09:19 PM
it's strange you ask this actually because some guy started talking to me in college today (i've never seen or spoke to him before) and he was asking about what i plan to do in the future and i honestly didn't know what to say. i only plan so far ahead and he was telling me that i should have a life goal or career to work towards as it motivates you and pushes you forward. he was quite a nice guy actually and just that small conversation made me feel so much more motivated and made me realise that i need to get my finger out and discover what i want in life. i know i want to go to university and work in film & media but i'm not too sure what direction yet. hopefully i'll know soon enough though as i have a few ideas

i'm starting to think that maybe this guy isn't even real and it's all in my head

maybe i'm just trying to let myself know that it's now or never with coll :(

Kardan
27-03-2014, 09:20 PM
do you have kids or get married or something in your next planned 5 years
we need habbox babies or a habbox marriage

but no, i've thought about what i want to do when I leave uni but nothing more really

Marriage will easily be within 5 years, kids will be a push...

FlyingJesus
27-03-2014, 09:33 PM
I don't even know what I'm doing in the next 2 hours tbh

Charz777
27-03-2014, 09:38 PM
Marriage will easily be within 5 years, kids will be a push...

Yay! Best get saving.

We will be married within 5 years. Being the mother and the one who will have to take time off work to have and look after babies, I'd like to get my career on it's way before having children. But I want to have the first of my children within 10 years.


ive never really saw myself in the future lmao
honestly am hoping for an average life. don't have expectations for a big career, don't know if ill go for future study. i wouldn't mind allowing my hubby to get most the money and me working part time plus taking care of the house and any kids.
honestly i think just gonna go with the flow and take any opportunity i can, i think i can be happy with average. i just wanna live comfortably and relatively care free.
have planned to move away from this town next year though n see where life takes me

I'm similar in a way. An average life is all I'm looking for where me and Aiden can have our own little house and maybe a family. Earn enough to get by comfortable with a few little luxuries along the way. Unless I win the Euromillions, then MANSIONNN!!!!! I'd also love to work part-time and be a part-time house wife! (I'd love to be a full time housewife, I'm so domestic! But financially it wouldn't work). I'm considering going part time after about 10 years, or around the time my first child is born (assuming we save up before then so I can afford to go part time and still care for a child). I've honestly not thought about it that much!!! :P

Cerys
27-03-2014, 09:52 PM
Ok so I want to get my A levels out of the way then either study forensic science (or something similar) or law at uni, then either become something science or a barrister depending on how well I do

I definitely don't want kids
At All

Ever

Getting married is a maybe,mainly because I can't see me ever being in a working long term relationship, but also I don't like the feeling of being tied down
I'm sure this will change when I meet new people though

But yeah that's pretty much it
Oh and I want to move away from England asap and live in either a large city e.g newyork or a hot area like Greece


Then I die

Sorted

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Matthew
27-03-2014, 09:59 PM
I've got up to 6 (and a half) years ahead (as I've just signed a contract for the next 6 years starting in september :L:L)

Futz
27-03-2014, 10:12 PM
I have a generic direction towards a career atm but that's not really what I'm about, that's more so I'll be able to live comfortably when I'm older but I would much rather do something else for money (though something I enjoy or if not that, something that I own and make a substantial amount of money from) so I'll probably try different exploits throughout my life to do that

But I don't really plan, if opportunities present themselves I'll usually take them, I have things I'd like to do in the future but not anything specific

If I'm totally honest I really don't think I'll have a typical life, I'll probably drift through life and die young & alone but I'm totally fine like that, **** I don't understand everyones fixation on following the usual cycle

Heck, it'd be nice to find a girl I fall in love with and maybe have some kids, but man I ain't got a plan for that

We'll just see what happens

Lewis
27-03-2014, 10:39 PM
I don't have plans for the next hour, next day, next whatever. Unless it's something small like planning to go to the shops or creating something on habbo tomorrow. That's it lol.

I just let my life play out itself.

Kardan
27-03-2014, 11:05 PM
I don't have plans for the next hour, next day, next whatever. Unless it's something small like planning to go to the shops or creating something on habbo tomorrow. That's it lol.

I just let my life play out itself.

I do believe you have a Habbo event planned tomorrow called Stab at 5pm.

Inseriousity.
27-03-2014, 11:51 PM
Marriage will easily be within 5 years, kids will be a push...

lol a push for charz not for you ;)

Shar
28-03-2014, 12:24 AM
Kids within the next 5 years Finish degree get a job
Save money for the future

Blinger
28-03-2014, 12:34 AM
Hopefully buy a house. Can't see that being too much trouble tbh, I save enough as it is and live life enough, get the money in my bank to earn me some dollars on a high interest account (ceebs with stock market, not smart enough for that) and then that's it. Oh, before the next 15-20 years, own my own bakery which won't be that hard.

Otherwise work wise, just keep slavin' away.

Brad
28-03-2014, 06:34 AM
I am working towards my five years.
I already am in my job that I can see myself retiring in. As of a Wife, and Kids. I would like them. Hopefully within the next few years actually. haha!
I want to be within my own house in five. So we'll see :)

I personally don't like to "plan" out my life, because five years ago when I was "planning" my life, I did not expect to be where I am now.

haha, so I like surprises!

Matt
28-03-2014, 08:17 AM
I've planned far enough to know I'm going traveling and that I'm going to Uni and graduating! After that, in terms of job wise etc, I haven't really thought about what's going to happen. I guess I'm more focused on graduating Year 12 atm.

Eric
28-03-2014, 09:08 AM
Idk maybe 5 years cause i know i'm going to uni soon. However, i already have a general gist of what i want in my life, like going to uni, getting a decent job, traveling to diff countries, get a decent house etc etc. I tend to focus on my present and let my life plays out itself and decides where it wants to take me cause i don't want to feel disappointed when i can't achieve something i want that i've planned out a long time ago. life is full of surprises and obstacles that you can't foresee

Sharon
28-03-2014, 04:16 PM
eh i'm 15 and i've know for about 5 years now i will definitely go to uni, so im pretty certain on that. ive also been 100% that i want to do law at uni etc but honestly lol the closer i get to it n more ive grown up i have realised how you actually have to work for that where as i used to be sure of myself that i was this really smart girl and it'll be easy hahaha! honestly it's turned out that i'm not smart so i am at a panicking stage lol

i also know i defo want kids and marriage but that's as far as it goes

Rachel
28-03-2014, 05:51 PM
I always plan a bit ahead as I do care about my future. I am soon 23 and I did plan at least till I am 35 years old. I am planning to have kids and a house soon enough. As for a career, I already have a stable job so I am good for this part anyways.

Sian
29-03-2014, 09:14 AM
See I'm stuck at that point where I know what I want to do, and I know I'll eventually do it, but due to this stupid economy and what I've chosen, I'm currently stuck in limbo trying to find a job in finance which I will most likely hate. But I want money so I can go on holiday.

Yawn
29-03-2014, 10:28 AM
nice thread

and to answer ur question no im stuck idk wat i want to do. im still trying to think wat i want to do in the next year after i finish uni in the next couple of months :(

Derrener
29-03-2014, 11:09 AM
When I've finished my IT course in June, the next course I wanna do is Travel & Tourism

Ermm five years would make me 22. i'd like to think that I've got a job at an airport.

In 10 I'd love to be working for Virgin Atlantic at Manachester airport
I did want to say Thomson but they don't employ their own check-in staff.
And maybe in 20 i'd be 37 and maybe by then i'll be cabin crew but from the amount of training and stuff that you have to do, it's always put me off so not really sure


How much of that is actually gonna happen, only time will tell.

merier
29-03-2014, 11:35 AM
Nope, I believe you miss out on life's greatest pleasures if you are confined to one path.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Life is a journey, not a destination."

dbgtz
29-03-2014, 11:53 AM
I used to have a pretty broad set of goals I would achieve at various ages, but a combination of things has caused to me to re-evaluate these and essentially destroy them and now I maybe think a month ahead at max.

Amberr
02-04-2014, 08:34 PM
I have some sort of plans in my mind about where I want to be but realistically I don't think I will get there. Ideally I want to graduate from uni, move away from home and start to earn a living, travel abit or specialise in an area after my three years (i can see me being fed up of education by that point though). Hopefully start a family and to settle down I guess. I think for certain though I don't want to carry on living where I am at the moment and I will look at moving after uni.

Charz777
02-04-2014, 08:41 PM
Just finished reading all of these. Some really interesting and some really lovely ones :)

-Moniquee.
03-04-2014, 02:07 PM
probably the next 5 years or so - uni uni uni.

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