OT: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Or, where do you see yourself in 10 years?
I've spent my entire career in banking at the same company, having my soul slowly whittled away into a tiny little nub. I didn't even want this job, I just sort of fell into it.
So this year my wife and I are starting a small business. We've done it twice before (one did very well, the other, not so much) and I think this one is a winner.
What about you? Are you already in your dream job saving the world and making tons of money doing it? Retired? Slowly going insane in your cubicle? Any escape plan?
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and a pension. I think it's time for me to take some risks now though. I really need to make A LOT more $ than I am now to live the sort of life I want.
you mention, or is that TMI?
if you are glued to the TV!
kidding aside, good for you and if i had anything at all to do with it, then all the better. but if it goes bad, please forget my name/avatar.
I tend to think that things happen the way they're supposed to happen. I do consulting work for payroll software, and its not the most enjoyable work I can imagine by any stretch, but the path I took to get there involved meeting my fiance, and I wouldn't trade that for anything.
But getting off of my philisophical soapbox, I wanted to be Chris Farley when I was growing up. Without the drugs, of course, but he was my idol. I was 7-8 years old and already had Tommy Boy and Black Sheep memorized by heart. He was just so funny, so absolutely bonkers ridiculous, over the top, and I sat there and thought to myself "that's who I want to be when I grow up."
I remember getting home from school the day he died, my Dad had told me what happened, and I was depressed for what felt like a week. Being a kid, I didn't truly understand the darker side of his life, but it was crushing all the same. He was my childhood, and I felt like a part of it died that day with him.
I want to be Phil Hartman. I think I could play the straight man character on SNL a la Hartman, and throw in a few impressions every now and then. As long as my writers are good, I could make a career of that.
I want to write a book on selling or do consulting work in sales. Twice in the past 10 years I've had jobs working three days a week and it's awesome - would like to get back there again.
And spend my entire summer on the lake - not just weekends.
And still be alive. That's an important one. I'd like to still be living.
a book on selling? how original...
I've worked in IT for the last 10 years or so.
I don't want to work in IT anymore but I don't know what else to do with myself so in 10 years I'll probably be doing this shit still.
19 years and counting. Ugh.
Same Here Darker Blue. I had the chance to enter the military as a lieutenant out of college but chose to not pursue that route. Graduated 2 years later and have had an IT job for the last 12 years working for a large pharmacy. I wake up every day thinking I made the wrong choice. I go to bed knowing I did. I'm starting to believe I'll probably die in this cubicle, in this very chair.....and nobody will know for days.
Retired sitting on a beach.
Am 40, an MgoDoc. If I can convince Doctor/Mrs gopoohgo to keep working for another 5 years, I would be on track to retire in my 50s.
Please please please please please
...Am 40. Hope to retire ini 10 years and move to Hawaii. Probably could do it now financially, but still have the drive to do more.
I'm already living the dream. I would love to be doing the same thing in ten years that I am doing now. Plus ten years of growth, maturity, children growing up, etc.
It's not a sure thing or anything, but I love serving where I am.
Are we not all impisoned by sin?
Did he at least stay to cuddle for a while?
but I'm always willing to negotiate.
The average person will have 3-5 jobs in their life. Hopefully one of them is something you want to be doing.
College ended for me in 97. I'm on job 3. First last about 2 years, second around 3 years and now I'm in year 15 of job #3. I can retire at 20 fully vested and get a retirement job for #4. We shall see...
What I want to do is unrealistic. Be a guitarist in a touring band. I've played guitar for over 30 years but kids keep me from it and getting good enough to accomplish that goal. (I.E. Rock guitar god in the veins of EVH, Malmsteen, Vai, Nuno, etc. Just not there.)
But I wouldn't change anything. My wife and kids are wonderful and I have a pretty good life.
I'd like to do consulting for a fortune 500 and dramatically iterate synergistic fungibility in order to rapidiously recaptiualize high standards in growth strategies. I don't know what that means, but it seems like something a person would say.
going forward.
Ten years.... Would like to be a CFO of a healthcare organization. Currently working toward that goal, but only have 5 years in the real world so I'm still a ways out.
You're probably going to need a really good understanding of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for that.
I (mostly) love my job. When I grow up, here's what I want
- To be organized
- To stop procrastinating
- To be a better father
- To be a better husband
- To be right with God
- To be content
- To be healthy and fit
- To be a better friend
- To have good friends
- To be good at what I do
- Living life intentionally, to the fullest, seizing the day
I don't want more money. I don't really want more stuff. I don't want a different job. I have already traveled a fair amount in my life. I don't need to travel more, but if I did, I would love to spend a year traipsing around in Israel and Greece and Italy and the Med and Austria and parts of the former Yugoslav republic. I wouldn't mind a different house, but I'm ok with my current home. . . really, it is just a building.
EDIT: I love that picture. Very pretty girl, wholesome. I guess my avatar shows my tendencies . . .
I've always wondered ... who is your avatar?
Do you think I could make an official MeanJoe website and make money?
Yes, you definitely should start an official MeanJoe website. I think that is it. Maybe you can raise funds here at mgoblog to crowdfund your new website.
Yea! Everyone here is so generous. I can make a calendar with me in different poses to give to anyone who donates. But, if I decide I just want to keep the money and have a nice steak dinner instead, is that okay?
sound slike your stereotyping this guy.
You should set out a dish of Haribo sugarless gummy bears for him to enjoy in the office.
I am my dream. I am a physicist from Hill Valley, California. My family (wife Clara and two boys Jules and Verne) along with my dog Einstein travel the space-time continuoum documenting important moments in history in my custom built flying locamotive.
If I had all this to do over again, I would have been a little more vigilant about getting into medical school and becoming what I always really wanted to be, which was a psychiatrist, mainly so I could help people become more stable than I am.
In ten years on my present track, however, I would like to see myself a bit higher on the management ladder, possibly a full-fledged manager with an entire region of the service territory under my ever-so-gracious-and-amusing thumb. I am also in the process of resurrecting my writing career and trying once again to break into comedy. I've also been doing sports podcasts for over a year now and wouldn't mind being noticed for that work either.
I'm a software engineer for one of the major tech companies. Quitting next month to study AI & machine learning full time for a year. Hoping to jump head first into the autonomous vehicle area. Should be financially independent by 40 (I don't spend much), but don't plan on ever really "retiring". Will be nice to work on what I want without worrying about salary...
Please make J.A.R.V.I.S. Siri is just a cheap knock off.
I used to make kids products and loved my job. I now negotiate deals and screw people out of money because I need/want a job near my wife's family. I hate my job and don't want to die bitter. Mgoblog offers me a moment of respite so that I know there are better things in life and don't kill my co-workers.
I wish I could start over by majoring in IT. I'm pretty good with computers and have a high interest in video games. It would be so fun creating video games. I'm just too lazy to go back to school. I like my life the way it is and don't hate my job, but I cannot say that I love my job.
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I get to retire from the service, grow up and get a real job.
That will be right around the time Michigan will be a serious contender for a national title.
I like this thread, but this still goes here: