I leveled up in life

[GypsyElder]

Do you have any specific life goals that you are working to achieve?

Where do you see yourself in the next 5-10 years?

Do you have any regrets?

I don’t have solid plans just yet, but I have smaller goals I would like to meet within the next few years:

1. Finish grad school (within the next 2 years)
2. Land a government position with The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) or National Institutes of Health (NIH) (within 3 years after that)
3. Open a small business – I’m not sure what yet. I want to open something small like a self-serve car wash or laundromat to bring in extra money.
4. I need a sugar daddy.

I spent 2 years longer at community college than I should have, which put me 2 years behind. In reality, I'm much farther ahead than most of my peers, but I feel like I should be doing better things by now. I can't say that spending extra time to figure out what career to pursue was a waste (I almost majored in something completely useless), but I wish I knew how great my work ethic is now, then. I might have hustled through it faster. Now, I feel that taking my time isn't an option.

This topic is quarter/mid life crisis inducing

[Coff9]

Life goals? To continue living.

Where do I see myself in five-to-ten years? Still alive.

Regrets? No, actually; I believe that, due to the way nature works, the universe that we exist in is the only one that can exist. Because of this, everything is, fortunately or unfortunately, pre-determined. With everything I know about science, I do think that if you were somehow able to "copy paste" the Big Bang several times, you'd get the exact same universe with the exact same people making the exact same decisions every time; if this is the case, regrets are meaningless. (Or, at least that's what I tell myself, haha.)

But back to the topic; honestly, I don't really want much out of life for myself. I'm the kind of person that, sadly, gets in the way and is typically a burden on people (if you can imagine it, haha), so, as I've gotten older, I've unintentionally detached myself from wanting things.

All I want are my basic needs to be met. When that's what's going on, I'm able to help others, which, at the end of the day, is all I really want to do (even if I'm not the greatest at doing so).

This may sound conceited, but I've always seen myself as "one of the good ones", so because of this, I have to live. I have to keep going even when things look bleak. That's why I say my life goal is to continue living.

"My destiny is to help fulfill the destiny of others" - Anonymous

[Taco-Calamitous]

I'm on a GI Bill now, and I'm working towards a double degree: First major, Political Science, second major, Education, minor in writing. I am told that if I take 5 classes every term from this fall to next summer, I could be student teaching in fall of 2017. I wanna be there for the next generation, I suppose; talk them out of making the mistakes I made, like not applying myself, not taking the SAT's, and most of all, joining the Air Force

I also wrote a book last year, and I've been running a website in the hopes of drawing attention to myself so that I can have a decent audience to release it to. I also need to save the money to have it professionally edited. That shit's expensive.

[Rowan]

I'm on a GI Bill now, and I'm working towards a double degree: First major, Political Science, second major, Education, minor in writing. I am told that if I take 5 classes every term from this fall to next summer, I could be student teaching in fall of 2017. I wanna be there for the next generation, I suppose; talk them out of making the mistakes I made, like not applying myself, not taking the SAT's, and most of all, joining the Air Force

Not to put a damper on anything, but working in an education environement, you might be surprised that 60% of teachers change profression after their first 5 years here in Australia. University education is something ive always been extremely wary of. Dont know how it works in the states, but here you study (means you're not working a proper job) for more than 4 years, at the same time racking up a debt which is in the tens of thousands if its a teaching degree, only then to spend your first 5 years paying that debt back on entry level teachers salary, which isn't much at all.

[Taco-Calamitous]

I gotcha, but I have the Post 9-11 GI Bill from my time in the service, which means that the military pays all tuition, gives me money for books, and also (supposedly) gives me a housing allowance each month that I'm actively taking classes. So theoretically, I won't have a debt!

[Spooniest]

Do you have any specific life goals that you are working to achieve?

I want to make $40,000 a year doing music. That's it; rock superstardom doesn't interest me, because it's like living your life running for Class President of a particularly nasty and drugged-out high school.

I don't have to be the one to release the songs, just the primary writer of said songs. I hope someone will cut one of my songs, basically. All it takes is one #1 hit, provided you don't do dumb shit like sign away your mechanicals, have a mansion built or blow it on coke.

Where do you see yourself in the next 5-10 years?

I plan to go on the road and never stop till I die. In the winter months, I will simply tour the places where it's not snowing.

Do you have any regrets?

...I'm 34 and broke. My marriage fell apart in a fiery shitstorm of misfortune. My friends are starting to have children. I keep trying to quit smoking and it's eating away at my sanity. The dog in particular is kind of leery about me and didn't used to be, probably from listening to me growl "I can't stand it I want a cigarette so bad" 100 times a day.

I could go on, but the point is, yes, I regret a lot of things. I think that's part and parcel to getting past a certain age, unless you're living a uniformly unexamined life.

[GypsyElder]

Good for you for trying to quit smoking. Don't give up! Lol! Traveling sounds like a good 10 year plan to me!

[midgetbob]

Currently, heading back to school to finally get the degrees I should have got while in the military. In the mean time, programming and doing mah thing.

Current Goals:

1. Stick to my guns, so I can retire at 45 - 50 as planned.
2. Open a business... most likely it'll be a hookah spot, but could also end up being a nerd store.
3. #1 and #2 should be as close to a beach as humanly possible.

[loaf]

Goals: Be alive at 40

[Clint]

I really want to run for president of the United States so that I can bring up real issues in the world, instead of pointless bullshit that candidates bring up nowadays. We don't need a healthcare reform, we don't need more secure boarders, ISIS isn't a threat, there is no climate change crisis. The only real issue is changing the state name of Montana to Montanya.

[loaf]

Update. In reply to Mel's edit.

I need a sugar momma.

[Taco-Calamitous]

Goals: Be alive at 40

Y'know, there is some merit to wanting to be alive at 40 still, but sometimes, I think I'd rather be dead by then. There's just a lot of shit ya gotta put up with, being alive still, ya know? Bills to pay, people to be angry at, the environment going belly up, this entire world going to Hell. I just, y'know, I dunno. If I were dead, I wouldn't have to deal with any of that. I would be blissfully unaware of what form of destruction for their country that the voters of the US choose in November. Or being confronted with either exercising and eating healthy, or being lazy and keep on drinkin' beer. Y'know; the important things in life.

[Pete]

Just to live the American dream. Wife, 2 kids, nice house, dog and a pool. As long as everyone's healthy I don't really care about much else.

It's a work in progress but I'm getting there. Right now I'm at the stage where the gf and I don't want any kids and she's waiting on something shiny soon. Hopefully by Christmas haha

[Spooniest]

2. Open a business... most likely it'll be a hookah spot, but could also end up being a nerd store.

...Can't it be both? I'd shop at that nerd store, provided you vented the hookah smoke away from the high-precision electronics.