Where Do You See Yourself In Ten Years?

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Everyone in my office is discussing this right now.

They asked me, and I just went blank and stuttered "Errrr... I don't know. Dead?"

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, honestly, is there a worse question?

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

depressed, lonely, ya know, more of the same (I am wallowing in self pitty at the mo)

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't say doing your wife
don't say doing your wife

Doing your....son?

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I far preferred the other conversation this morning which had questions like "who will have the worst pr0n discovered on their hard drive?" (I'm quite flattered that no one actually guessed me, even though I know for a fact, I probably do) and "which one of us is most likely to go to jail?" (they did suggest me, for chasing underage boys, tee hee hee)

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I'm glad that no one else is able to answer the question on demand, either!

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

married, bald.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I barely know what I'm doing from one day to the next. But that's just cos my manager can't write rotas for shit. People who have a perfectly formed idea of where they'll be at any point in the future unnerve me, it's all just an inchoate mass of possibility, surely? You can't KNOW?

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Bald, aye. Bit more wrinkly. More records. Probably still doing computery stuff and most likely hating it.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Fed up with working for the man, I will have launched my career as an Amway representative. Ahhh, the good life awaits!

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, if you'd asked me ten years ago, "what do you see yourself doing in ten years" I certainly wouldn't have imagined this!

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I probably would have imagined something like this ("this") - I just wouldn't have imagined it sucking so much.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

probably still in London but maybe New York or a smaller coastal city
a S.A.D. perhaps, maybe still freelancing, maybe ONLY freelancing...would like to have made something independently and successfully by this point and be reaping the rewards
not married but probably thinking about it
finally learning to drive
finally thinking about buying a house

alternatively, travelling around the world

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Working part-time, probably as a cashier, and coming home to feed my brood.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

BEST THING SAID YET IN MY OFFICE THIS MORNING:

"Is anyone in this office Catholic? You must be Catholic, Kate, you're into young boys!"

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

that IS good

― Freelance Popelover (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i see myself in another country, roffling at the suckas back home.

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, the one thing that I guessed correctly was that I would be living in London.

However, I'm still waiting for the brilliant pop career and the fabulous artist husband... sigh.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

This is where I would like to see myself in 10 years time.
Happily married with gorgeous kids, possibly in the same house.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

the least i could hope for is a job were the office conversation arose from constant red sox & baby making chatter.

in the mountains surrounded by moogs, with a magic garden and maybe a wide screen tv in an old barn. w/the same girl and a couple of great danes

― kephm, Friday, 8 October 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean my student loans will be paid off by then, so anything is possible!

― kephm, Friday, 8 October 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

given the fucking states me & muh wummuhn went though over the last 10yrs (ill health, ill health, "fertility problems", autistic spectrum disorder) this is not a question I like to contemplate, really.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Is anyone in this office Catholic? You must be Catholic, Kate, you're into young boys!"

dude, is that why i'm the way i am?!

i am terrible at these kinds of questions. in 10 years i'll be 37. what do i want to have accomplished by then? mmm, i'm not fussed, actually.

i'll probably have gone back to grad school towards the end of the 10 years and completely changed my career direction. (there's several things that i'd be interested in trying, and don't feel like i'm in a 'lifetime career' now)

it would be really cool if i had dual citizenship, but that'll sort itself out over the next few years anyway. have no idea where i'll be living.

i seriously, seriously doubt i'll be married.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Kephm - Be careful you don't wish this with your mouth full of cereal, or someday in the future you'll find yourself ambushed while travelling on a mountain path by a crowd of surly, semi-bearded young men wearing gold chains and toques.

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't ever eat cereal and i get along fine with palace fans

― kephm, Friday, 8 October 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Making a load of money. Kids probably. Homeowner, in good health, putting away a good chunk into savings. Will probably have given up trying to make music by that point, though.

Alos, my left forearm will be completely cybernetic.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 8 October 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll probably be married with a couple of ankle biters.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/mark.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I really think you should grow a 'tache.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually have a pic of me somewhere with precisely that tache, too - when I shaved off my goateee last year I took some photos of the intermediate stages...

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Markelby is Styx's Dennis DeYoung!

http://www.styxnet.com/deyoung/photo/kerr/fans_kerr_14.jpg http://www.styxnet.com/deyoung/photo/gabi/fans_gabi_05.jpg

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.styxnet.com/deyoung/photo/kerr/fans_kerr_14.jpg

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

somehow, those pictures make the future seem brighter

― kephm, Friday, 8 October 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

there's plenty more where that came from!

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Bald, certainly.

Hopefully less poor than I am now.

― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Fighting for precious water in a post-apocalyptic wasetland.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i see myself in another country, roffling at the suckas back home.

TRUST ME, YOU'LL STILL FEEL EMPTY INSIDE

― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I lie - it can be very gratifying sometimes. Go for it!

― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

A couple of kids, maybe? It's a bit frightening to think about.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I really just draw a blank when thinking about the actual future.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Posting on ILX, still deferring real life as much as possible. No kids, hopefully.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG, if I'm still posting to ILX in ten years, I really will shoot myself...

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX will be a nostalgia trip for me, hopefully. I only post from work and I do not plan to be in a position which affords me so much spare time in ten years time.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

If ILX is still around in ten years, I can bet my sweet ass I will still be on it. Sigh.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

what if ILX goes away and we are stuck with only the archives?

― kephm, Friday, 8 October 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

There's enough posts in there to keep hitting "random" for the next ten years!

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll have found something else to waste my time on. (xpost)

I suspect I will still be in the same job, in the same house, in ten years time. I won't have made any new friends, but I'll be still happily married.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Relaxed, I trust. Beyond that, predicting the future is so for suckers. (I say that kindly, though -- it's just that I could never have predicted all the various things that have happened in my life, mostly for the good, and so while there's things I'm working for and planning on, predicting I'll never do.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

In ten years I will have my own small business, work from home, and have a bigger apartment.

― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't got a fucking clue.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 14 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

As for the where, hmmm probably somewhere in West London. Though it'd be nice to live on the south coast.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking about West London at the moment, extremely hypothetical obv.

― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

If anything happens to Nick, I might get more cats to console myself...

Nick, I'd be a little concerned here.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

She's already trying to freeze you to death by making you purchase inadequate outerwear.

― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

And she'll be all warm and toasty under a mound of kittens.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't see the point in making such predictions.

I'm glad Mark likes the photo I did of him. Can you guess which footballer I stole the hair and moustache from?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Married, with bouffant. Temples might be quite grey though.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

terrifying to think that in ten years time I'll be in my 40's, I would hope that I will have bought a house by then, god knows what I'll be doing for a living because I can't do this shit for the rest of my life.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Is house buying really that important for a lot of folks? (Yeah, I've asked this before, but I'm still always surprised.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

it's economically sensible in the long run, but really I'm perfectly happy renting as long as I can live in the middle of things.

― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorta my thought. I figure I'm biding my time on a few things.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

omg I'm depressed just thinking about this. Don't know where I see myself next week, even.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd like to own a home before i die, but i'm in no hurry (no one would want to sell to me anyway).

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post -- also unlike a lot of people I have never felt the desire to want to radically change where I live in ways that would require my owning it)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

it's only important to me because everyone else I know (overstatement, really, it's like, three) has bought/is buying and now that I'm moving and paying 3 times the rent I've been paying for the past ten years, I feel all this regret that I'm throwing $1600 a month down the toilet. I'm sure I would change my mind if I were actually buying a place and a month later the roof fell in and the plumbing blew up, though.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Frank settled down in the Valley
and he hung his wild years
on a nail that he drove through
his wife's forehead
he sold used office furniture
out there on San Fernando Road
and assumed a $30,000 loan
at 15 1/4% and put a downpayment
on a little two bedroom place
his wife was a spent peice of used jet trash
made good bloody marys
kept her mouth shut most of the time
had a little Chihuahua named Carlos
that had somekind of skin disease
and was totally blind
they had a thoroughly modern kitchen
self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)
Frank drove a little sedan
they were so happy
One night Frank was on his way home
from work, stopped at the liqour store
picked up a couple of Mickey's Big Mouths
drank 'em in the car on his way
to the Shell station, he got a gallon of
gas in a can, drove home, doused
everything in the house, torched it
parked across the street laughing
watching it burn, all Halloween
orange and chimney red then
Frank put on a top forty station
got on the Hollywood Freeway
headed north
Never could stand that dog

― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel all this regret that I'm throwing $1600 a month down the toilet.

I know people have spoken about that as well, but I find actually that it's good financial discipline in ways. I do have a (very small) nestegg and no debt at all, and if all goes well on a couple of fronts I plan on adding to it substantially soon enough, and would/could easily use it for a purchase somewhere. In the meantime, having learned to pay more and more over time as my situation changes (from subsidized college housing to sharing a house to a spot on my own) while still being able to enjoy life as it comes -- trips, going out, etc. -- I find a certain peace of mind NOT having to worry about the whole upkeep scenario. And also, quite frankly, I'd only need a small condo at this point anyway. Screw all the lawn stuff, that's a waste of time and money right there!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

you are more responsible than me!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

home ownership ability = f(real estate prices) obviously, so no points off for non-home-ownership in hyperinflated markets (e.g. Ned)

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard/read a few things about said hyperinflated market here that have made me especially wary, and frankly for a variety of reasons I think buying here is going to be increasingly fraught with chance. I WAS about to purchase three years ago, didn't, and in retrospect that was a very good thing (it enabled me to concentrated on debt settling instead, which while it wore away at the nestegg was ultimately the best thing to do right then, rather than to still incur that *plus* the burden of a mortgage).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone hold me.

― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hold Howard Wine and pet him like a puppy dog.

― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

And then have him put down.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

that is really mean.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's okay. Really. It's fine.

― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

And ILX would be the one
to hold Howard down,
kiss Howard so hard,
It'll take Howard's breath away

(Typically, I know this lyric not from Sarah McLachlan but from MST3K reffing it in The Final Sacrifice re: Larry Czonka)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, it's creepy how your leg jerks when I scratch you there. Whoa, tiger! 'Member, we're just friends.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

that is really mean.

Adam knows I'm kidding.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My son will be an out-of-control teenager, and I will still be making music no one will listen to, if I don't explode my liver during the inevitable plunge into drink darkness come January when he moves away to West Texas with his mom.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

If I slack, Imma be dead or dying.
If I try, Imma be the man.

That's just how my life works.

― LC, Friday, 8 October 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

bump

― yusef latifah (unregistered), Friday, 2 January 2015 18:34 (eleven years ago)

rich within my wildest dreams but beyond what seemed actually likely

― local eire man (darraghmac), Friday, 2 January 2015 18:41 (eleven years ago)

Dead, or divorced and living somewhere in the Pac NW.

― the magnetic pope has sparked (WilliamC), Friday, 2 January 2015 18:43 (eleven years ago)

This question is the absolute worst when it is asked during a job interview or by a supervisor.

No one can see ten years into their future or has more than a tenuous ability to steer the course of their lives over a full decade, and trying to see that far ahead is just an exercise in self-delusion or futility. So, any answer you give is purest fantasy. The only reason I can think why an employer would want to hear your fantasies is to be told that you dream only of serving them in a more grovelingly subservient fashion.

Really, is there any answer they would accept other than gross flattery and lies? Basically, it's just an invitation to lick their shoes.

― dumpster® fire (Aimless), Friday, 2 January 2015 18:48 (eleven years ago)

i have this dread that i will be doing exactly the same things i am doing now

not that i am unhappy now but

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 January 2015 19:04 (eleven years ago)

how is this revival anything other than comedy posts about what people actually said ten years ago?

― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 January 2015 20:12 (eleven years ago)

I'll still be on ILX.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 January 2015 20:17 (eleven years ago)

hopefully spending more time with my wife, watching our daughter finish graduate school. trying to be better than i've been over the past few years.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 2 January 2015 20:42 (eleven years ago)

http://www.primagames.com/media/images/news/cod-blops-2-nuketown-2025-news_1.jpg

― salthigh, Friday, 2 January 2015 20:57 (eleven years ago)

wonder if TOMBOT is really part 'bot by now

― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 2 January 2015 21:20 (eleven years ago)

Hopefully still avoiding any goal-oriented living

― fgti, Friday, 2 January 2015 21:40 (eleven years ago)

ugh

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 2 January 2015 22:09 (eleven years ago)

I will have a ten year old son

― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Saturday, 3 January 2015 01:41 (eleven years ago)

there are many possibilities: eating, pooing, listening to music, reading things online, peeing. who knows what the future will bring?

― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Saturday, 3 January 2015 01:58 (eleven years ago)

nedstradamus

― j., Saturday, 3 January 2015 01:59 (eleven years ago)

celebrating the ten year anniversary of you asking us this question

― calstars, Saturday, 3 January 2015 02:01 (eleven years ago)

oh shit it is the ten year anniversary

― calstars, Saturday, 3 January 2015 02:03 (eleven years ago)

In ten years we will all be writing articles about why D'Angelo hasn't put an album out in ten years.

― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Saturday, 3 January 2015 02:55 (eleven years ago)

we'll 38 of us be millionaires from zs art participation

― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 3 January 2015 03:36 (eleven years ago)

I certainly wouldn't have seen myself where I am now ten years ago. (SYDNEY, THE FUCK?)

So, uh, in another ten years? Rich and running a hot internet brand (big plans for COGH in 2017.)

― AB de Villiers Terrace (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 3 January 2015 11:59 (eleven years ago)

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