Five years from now

[Deleted User]

This thread has prompted a lot of thinking this morning. I've been particularly down at work lately, so it was nice to think forward.

In five years, I'll be 31.  By then, I imagine that SO and I are married and maybe have one child. We're both iffy on the children timeline, but I see at least a baby by that time. I see us both changing jobs, and perhaps moving to Washington DC (a dream of ours!) to work. I would love to be using my PR degree and work for a firm. He would love to get back into political/investigative journalism.

CLoGreenEyes

@jezziebeth, your career paths will fit right in around here, lol :-) Anything in particular that draws you to DC?

beanbot2002

In 5 years I will be 38. I will-

- be married to D

- have another kid running around

- own a home...with land for the horses

- possibly working for my brother making loads more than I do now

- Bean will be 15 and driving me mad

- oh crap, if he's 15 then that means I'll be teaching him how to drive. Fuck.

- I will have been at my goal weight for 3 years at that point

- my photography business will be booming

- I'm still freaking out about teaching Bean how to drive

- God save me...

Stina51286

zipis1 said:

Let's see...in five years I'll have been married five years and about 30 (FI will be 34). FI/H will have his paralegal certification and hopefully be in a good career. I'll have either just graduated vet school or be close to it. And I hope we'll be looking into buying a house.

That's about all the planning I'm really good for :P

It is a great job depending on what type of work he wants to do with it. I have my associates and wish WI would get certified (I know a lot about the law that I cannot tell people and certification would allow it).

 

In 5 years I will be just shy of a month over 32.

1. Hope to have sold our first house and buy our second in the country with lots of land for the dogs.

2. Get, if not all most, of my student loans paid off.

3. FI gets his new truck (I ruined that by getting a new car this year).

4. Maybe having a cottage of our own 1-2 hours away just to get away.

5. Tour Europe for two weeks.

MidniteRae

In 5 years from now..

I will be 29, almost 30.

I will be married to FI.

We will hopefully already have baby #1.

We will maybe be trying for baby #2.

We will hopefully own a home.

[Deleted User]

Amapola14 - I'm just deeply in love with the city! My first visit was back in 2007, and I just got this 'what a wonderful, historical city' feeling as I walked around. I've been back numerous times for work and for fun, and just enjoy it. It's the political nerd in me.

SO and I have thought it would be fun to stay in WV (where we are now) and commute to DC in the future. I know it's super expensive to live there.

jemmini6

In 5 years I'll be 31 and I will have been married for almost 7 years.  We will hopefully be finished having kids (we want 2) since we are planning to start TTC in July and we would like about 3 years in between.  We will probably either have already, or be looking to purchase a slightly bigger home in a better school district.  Hopefully, we'll also continue to take our annual vacations, even with the kiddos.

dixie7701

In five years from now I will be 35 (ugh)

I will be married to the BF

I will have one daughter in college, a son about to graduate high school, another daughter in Jr. High and hopefully one or two little ones at home (call me crazy for wanting to start over...my mom thinks I'm totally nuts)

I would love to be a stay at home mom baking cakes and cupcakes out of my really fabulous kitchen

We will have bought a house with the bad ass kitchen I mentioned above.

We will have traveled to Europe

On the subject of adoption....there is absolutely nothing like it.

My daughter is now 15 years old and I legally adopted her when she was 7. My situation with her was a little different than your traditional adoption, but not without challenges. If adopting is something that you really want to do just go for it. I now have 2 biological children that are younger than her and all 3 of them are, by far, my greatest accomplishments. 

Every child deserves to have a mommy and daddy to love him/her and not everyone is given a heart that can handle the kinds of challenges that go along with adopting a child. 

I apologize for my public service announcement, but this subject is like a soap box for me. I guess it really hits home. 

doubleSS07

In 5 years I'll be 40 (good god!) I'll have an almost 4 year old if my planning works out.  Not sure if there will be a 2nd in there quite yet.  Hopefully we will either be settled in our nice "forever" home and saving towards buying a 2nd place somewhere island-y.  We travel every year so who knows where it will be by that time.

Work wise I'd love to stay home for a bit but don't think that will end up happening so I'd at least like to be thinking about going back to school for something.  I'm bored with work and have no real career.

cu97tiger

jezziebeth said:

Amapola14 - I'm just deeply in love with the city! My first visit was back in 2007, and I just got this 'what a wonderful, historical city' feeling as I walked around. I've been back numerous times for work and for fun, and just enjoy it. It's the political nerd in me.

SO and I have thought it would be fun to stay in WV (where we are now) and commute to DC in the future. I know it's super expensive to live there.

As someone who lives in MD, you couldn't pay me enough money (ok, you could, but it'd have to be a LOT) to live outside DC and commute in. The only way I'd work there is if I lived somewhere that I could metro in.

CLoGreenEyes

cu97tiger said:

jezziebeth said:

Amapola14 - I'm just deeply in love with the city! My first visit was back in 2007, and I just got this 'what a wonderful, historical city' feeling as I walked around. I've been back numerous times for work and for fun, and just enjoy it. It's the political nerd in me.

SO and I have thought it would be fun to stay in WV (where we are now) and commute to DC in the future. I know it's super expensive to live there.

As someone who lives in MD, you couldn't pay me enough money (ok, you could, but it'd have to be a LOT) to live outside DC and commute in. The only way I'd work there is if I lived somewhere that I could metro in.

This is truth. Driving in DC is the pits. Even driving around it, in fact.

[Deleted User]

cu97tiger - I agree with you about the Metro, definitely the best way to get around. I am too scared to drive around in DC or be around the betlway just because I know traffic is a nightmare.

radleyboo

@cu97tiger: We are the same age!  Did you graduate in 1993?  Our 20 year reunion is this summer, yuck!

In 5 years:

I will be 42 years old.

I will have a houseful of teenagers and almost-teenagers (15, 14, 11, 10) and likely going broke feeding them.

FI and I will be celebrating 5 years of marriage by going to Oktoberfest and touring Germany and Austria!  Already can't wait for this one!

We will either have the pool in the backyard or a nice down-payment for a little cottage on a lake, we are undecided on which one yet, I'm leaning towards cottage, FI wants the pool.  He'll probably win because I'm impatient and a pool is a lot cheaper.  

oceana919

If everything goes to plan, here's where we're hoping to be:

1) We will own our own home.
2) We'll have at least two kids.
3) I will be done with my doctorate.
4) We'll (hopefully) be in good enough a financial position that I can be teaching part time and be home with our babies on most days.
5) I will have launched my own business and DH will be on his way to building his own consulting firm.

cu97tiger

radleyboo said:

@cu97tiger: We are the same age!  Did you graduate in 1993?  Our 20 year reunion is this summer, yuck!

In 5 years:

I will be 42 years old.

I will have a houseful of teenagers and almost-teenagers (15, 14, 11, 10) and likely going broke feeding them.

FI and I will be celebrating 5 years of marriage by going to Oktoberfest and touring Germany and Austria!  Already can't wait for this one!

We will either have the pool in the backyard or a nice down-payment for a little cottage on a lake, we are undecided on which one yet, I'm leaning towards cottage, FI wants the pool.  He'll probably win because I'm impatient and a pool is a lot cheaper.  

Oh yes... DH's 20th is at the end of this month. Mine is in August. Luckily I feel like I look 100x better now than I did then, so I'm actually looking forward to it. 

We went to Germany and Austria in 2009 the week before Oktoberfest. I loved every second of it (other than the nasty cold I had... boo). It's definitely worth looking forward to!

ladystig

Amapola14 said:

ETA: @ladystig, good luck with those weekends (or at least every other) if you are going to be an RN. What kind of nursing are you interested in? I just started an Associates program and love to geek out with other nurse hopefuls.

thank you! RN is actually a new idea for me. My plan was to apply to PA school once I finish up my bachelor's, but I am loving the idea of nursing more and more. My plan was to work in orthopedics as a PA, but I have run into some emergency situations at my work and really considering the ER.

CLoGreenEyes

@ladystig, that's awesome! I volunteered at our local ER a couple summers ago. I enjoyed my part but could never do what the nurses there were doing - kudos to you for being able to handle the pressure! Good luck to you with school!

Sparky1014

I've been lurking for a bit, this seems like it might be a good place for a first post...

In five years..I'll be 30.

I'll have paid off my car

I'll be married to BF

We'll hopefully have one kiddo with # 2 on the way

I'll have started a new career.

thejinxchan

I certainly had no idea I'd be where I am 5 years ago. But 5 years from now, I will be married to bf (we are planning to be engaged sometime this year and married in 2015). After having just come back from 2 weeks at home in the US with bf, I'm dying to move back to US with bf (as my husband) and start our life! But I'll prob stick it out 5 more years in Dubai (have a loan to pay off in 3 more years, and 2 more years to save money) but I may look for a new job after the loan is paid off in Dubai (the airline I work for has not been making me happy lately) but I do want to keep traveling with my bf. We are hoping to get a house bought in Phx in the next 2 years so we'll have a house to move back to in 5, and possibly start a family.

pesematology

In five years I hope to be a wife, a mother, and an experienced speaker at tech conferences. I want to move to Portland but I don't have specific plans about that. I want to own a house so I can trick it out and have a huge food garden.

labro

This is so much fun! I'm really enjoying seeing what everyone has planned.

5 years from now:

-I'll be 2 months shy of 30.

-Hopefully BF and I will have been married for a couple of years at least.

-Planning to have our first child as long as our financial plan that we've worked out goes well.

-Student loans paid off.

-Selling our current home at a profit and moving into something that fits more of our idea of our dream home.

-Working a different job with more responsibility, more room for advancement, and hopefully more mentally challenging work.

-In 5 years we'll have hopefully done some international travel to mainland Europe, the UK, China, and Thailand. This is only if we manage to pay off our student loans. Our financial goal is to have them completely paid off in our first 2 to 3 years of marriage.

csousa1

LivLeighton said:

Let's see how posting from a mobile site goes. In 5 years (and 9 days) I'll be 34. Fuckaduck. I hope to be married to B. I hope that we will have sold my condo and moved into a single family with a big yard for the dogs, possibly out of MA...and I hope to have added to our dog brood with at least one more, plus maybe another cat and hedgie (sadly, it's likely that Earl won't have made it to another 5 years, but fingers crossed!). Hopefully I will have figured out what the hell I want to do with my life. It increasingly seems that I'd like to own a dog daycare/training center with B. I'd also like to have finished my first novel and at least be shopping it around for publishing. I'm still on the fence about kidlets, but if we do decide we want them, I guess it probably would happen by about the time I'm 32. So...yeah. Oh my god why do I not know what I'm doing with my life?!?

Since when are you on the fence about kids??? When did I miss this??

desertsun

In 5 years, I will be 36.

- We will have been married 8 years

- My little baby will be starting kindergarten in the fall. *tear*

- We will have added at least one more child to our family. 

- I don't know what I'll be doing career-wise. Just depends on how I like being a SAHM after the kids start talking back.

ravenray

Eh this thread is almost dead but why not?

In 5 years I'll be almost 27.

H and I will have been married for six years. 

I'll hopefully be a year away from finishing my PhD.

There may or may not be children on the way. 

I hope to have a house with a yard and a horse.  

Hopefully H will be were he wants to be career wise.  

Hopefully I will have been back to Germany for a year and be fluent in German.

Shiroyasha

Let me think.  In five years I will be 29. I hope to have a child or two by that time and hopefully be married as well.  I would like to travel to the UK and Ireland by that time.  I can see a bigger home and a better job (or position in the company).  I will have figured out what I would like to do with my life and hopefully either have achieved it or will be working towards it.