Where do you see yourself in five years? (9 Viewers)

mikhail

Senior Member
Jan 24, 2003
9,576
#88
I'd like to ask this to everyone here to see how much you've planned your life ahead. Lately a bunch of people have asked me what I wanna do in the future and honestly I don't have a clue.
I'm entering an unstable part of my career. I'll be starting a postdoctoral research post soon, and from here, it's all short contracts, moving to wherever I can get funded until I can find a lecturing post or give up and get a job in industry. It's going to be a lonely, unsettled time in my life, with no certainty further ahead than a year or so and a lot of moving around. I really can't say where I'll be, but I'd like to have secured a tenure track lecturing post in a university I would be happy to spend the rest of my career at.

  • Married with a little nipper on the way
  • Earning enough income from my business to turn my back on traditional employment for good
  • Employing at least 10 people to work on my ever-expanding football equipment empire
  • Mounting a challenge to the sports equipment monopoly in my country for a cut of the market share
  • Drawing up plans for a soon-to-come brick and mortar store
Now here's a man with a plan. Good luck with all of that, Graham.

Oh, I was thinking of myself, I started school at 7. But now they start at 6 where I used to live. In this country I don't even know.
I started at 4 years and 4 months, which is earlier than the mean here, but not unusual. From what I've read, that conveys no real advantage over 6-7.
 
Jan 7, 2004
29,704
#94
stop being so obsessed with looks
it has nothing to do with looks. are you familiar with herzberg's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory

?

think of ugly women as one factor, and good looking women as another factor. they lead to different stimuli. one is a part in a reasonable enjoyment of one's life, the other leads to being a shallow prick. i needs me some normal women.
 

Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
56,913
#95
it has nothing to do with looks. are you familiar with herzberg's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory

?

think of ugly women as one factor, and good looking women as another factor. they lead to different stimuli. one is a part in a reasonable enjoyment of one's life, the other leads to being a shallow prick. i needs me some normal women.
I don't follow. Which kind of women make you a shallow prick?
 
Jan 7, 2004
29,704
#98
Ah, okay, I can see that.

so what's your actual 5 year plan?
right now, it is a 10 month plan. enjoy the summer and save at least 3 grand so i can enroll in the next semester. finish the next semester and graduate. and start looking a job.

in 5 years if i am not making around 60K i suppose i better be in graduate school
 

Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
56,913
#99
right now, it is a 10 month plan. enjoy the summer and save at least 3 grand so i can enroll in the next semester. finish the next semester and graduate. and start looking a job.

in 5 years if i am not making around 60K i suppose i better be in graduate school
works for me.

my plan is to graduate from school and finally enjoy life
 

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