You in 20 Years

I tried piggybacking this on the existing 2030 thread but got nuttin', so I'll see if it does any better with its own header:

So 2030 is as far in the future as 1990 is in the past. And since 1990 doesn't seem all that long ago, I expect 2030 will be here before we know it. So here's a thread to project your hopes, fears, possibilities and future lives on. How old will you be then? Will you still be sitting around at work, posting to ILX? Will you be rich? Will you be poor? Que sera sera?

I'll turn, wow, 61 that year. Huh. My kids will be 26 and 22. I guess I mostly hope they're both happy and healthy. If they have jobs, that'll be good too. (If there are still "jobs" in 2030.) I'll be doing some kind of work. I hope. (This is all making the statistical assumption that I will in fact be alive, obviously not guaranteed.) There's a good chance I'll still be East Tennessee, I suppose, since I'm likely to stay here at least while the kids are in school. I hope I've found some other ways to parlay writing and editing into money by then, because I'm not sure I can count on still working at the alt-weekly. (Tho at the moment we have two columnists who are older than that.) Since I'm not in a relationship at the moment, the longest possible relationship I'll be in then is 19 or 20 years. Which doesn't really seem likely. I sort of expect there will be at least a handful or so between now and then. But I hope I'm in a happy one, that would be nice.

I think by that point in my life I would like to be living in a smallish but nice urban apartment or co-op. I don't need much space, especially once the kids are gone. Maybe what I should aim for is trying to buy something like that in about 10 years. (This is also making the statistical assumption that I won't get rich at some point and just be able to buy whatever I want. It's a nice idea, but I need to plan to live pretty frugally I think.) And I sure hope I'm healthy, and not overly beset by aches, pains, or debilitating conditions. It would be nice if I was still doing a lot of mountain hikes. I hiked once with a guy in his 70s and his advice to me was, "Just keep doing it, don't stop. If you stop, it gets harder to start up again."

Hmm. Just thinking about this makes me want to do some more strategic thinking about what exactly I'm doing day to day.

I literally have no idea. I'm not a long-term planner at all.

I will be 42 and hopefully alive.

xp:
Sure, and plans are only worth so much. It's just, when I was 20, 40 was literally unimaginable to me. But now at 41, 60 seems not so far away. I can at least sort of think about what it could be like.

I couldn't have predicted where I would be in life now back in 1990 beyond hoping my friends, family and I were all doing well. I'll stick with that and see what happens otherwise; if I'm as pleasantly surprised by life as I have been for the most part over the last twenty years then that will be enough.

I will miraculously still be 27 years old

gonna be so awesome making fun of all the old people

me in 2030 posting to ilx from my ibrain-jetpack while simultaneously projecting a real-CGI mountain vista at a friend's party - the peaks changing in time to the live mix of 20s goonstep classics blasting out of my neurofunnel.

http://www.clipspringer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/jetpack.jpg

At 32, 52 seems pretty alien as well. If I had a serious partner or kids doubtless things would be different. I still don't quite feel like an adult, wonder if I will by then?

:D @ aeroboot n blueski

I will totally be OK with being 60 if I can have a jetpack.

can't really add much to tipsy's, my daughter will be 22 god willing, and i'll be there to support her and my wife and my family etc. god willing, other than that who cares.

gonna be stuck down a well

Wouldn't be surprised if I'm quite fat.

i'm going to finally be skinny again, thanks to lack of food in the well

occasionally a hedgehog will tumble in and you will pounce, ravenously

I'll lower you some pork scratchings.

i hope community got a third season

Taylor Swift will be the same age I am now. But a whole lot richer.

Will the BBC still be showing repeats of Dad's Army and Porridge?

almost certainly dead

44, living in a city somewhere, maybe teaching, most likely a couple cats somewhere in the picture.

I would be 76, assuming I live so long.

I can only hope that my health would be acceptable and I would still be engaged with life. Ideally, I'd still able to hike and camp, and I would be volunteering time and energy for some socially worthy goal. I am certain that my basic financial needs would be met, unless some universal catastrophe had wiped away almost everyone's assets by then.

an entry on "men who look like old lesbians"

I'll be old and praying to die before President Jenna Bush's third term

rofl

<3 u morbs

Yikes this thread idea.

pretty good chance i will have a kid graduating from high school or getting close to it

u are 2 have babby?

congrats :)

well, soon, no lil bison's in the oven yet

I'll be 67 and subsisting on soylent orange if I make it that far.

i might be deaf in 20 years, or at the very least have some bad ear damage :(

i'll also be grown up

m bison you are hereby ordered by ilx poster underrated aerosmith bootlegs to name your offspring Hadouken Bison

so mote it be

I think chances of my living that long are 50/50, and that's not counting any potential zombie apocalypses.

And since 1990 doesn't seem all that long ago,

i do not have this problem. i'd need a minute to figure out what was going on with me 5 years ago.

i'll be 62. my daughter will be 29. hopefully, she'll be happy and educated. hopefully, my wife and i will both be around to see it, preferably retired (my wife stayed home for four years with our daughter, but chose to go back and work for UM). i'm not sure if we'll be rich, and it depends on how you define "rich," i suppose. i'm not too worried about that, in any event.

I will inherit the title of king of the ilxor boards, I will bring tears to Ned Raggett's eyes, I will be one with the ilxor

boats and hoes

m bison you are hereby ordered by ilx poster underrated aerosmith bootlegs to name your offspring Hadouken Bison

so mote it be

― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, November 22, 2010 9:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

*asks wife*

brb, defending myself from projectile kitchen appliances

tugboat captain

I will probably be staring at a screen of some sort

I'll be 53. Hoping to either be partner in an architecture firm or else running my own thing. Maybe by then I will actually, finally feel like a real grown up. Also, hoping by that point I'll have finally paid off my student loans and have moved closer to the dream of living in a home of my own design.

almost certainly dead

I'll be 52. Knock on wood, the wife and kid will still be putting up with me and one of them will be in college. Or there'll be an extra kid or more and the empty nest will still be a few years off.
As much as I'd like to say we'll still be in this house, we might be somewhere else. I doubt we'll leave DC.
My job will be different; I hope US-CERT still exists, but by that point I hope my efforts have gained enough traction that the day-to-day operation is completely different in almost every way (I wonder if e-mail will still be the primary means of business communication by then, or if it will be replaced by some kind of XMPP++ with fast full text searching of logs).
I push a metaphor to other people in my line of work that it took 50 years to put a seatbelt in every mass produced car, so the next 20 years for this business are critical, and maybe by then we'll be making that crucial step to safe internets. OTOH, it may not come from America, the big safety push in autos came from other continents' upstarts trying to displace the Big Three (and insurance companies, which have been conspicuously absent in the sphere of shit you'd rather not let people know that you store on a computer).
I would like to imagine I'll actually have a book or an album or some other significant -ography constituent completed and published to the world by then, but given the prospects implied by my first sentence, this seems doubtful.

I wonder how weird my kid(s) will let me be. In a sort of reflexive iconoclasm against kid music I've already been using my emusic downloads to load up extra on John Adams and Tortoise and similar long-form supermodern bullshit, although the closest cohort to my child is apparently already a big fan of windowlicker type techno nonsense. Right now I'm thinking about it as a coin flip, like it'll either be really into stupid pop or really into drones and fela kuti. Everything always ends up somewhere in between, and frankly, if I had to grow up being my kid, I'd probably have a ludicrous work ethic and a very representational art schtick going on, not to mention some kind of knee-jerk anodyne appreciation of Dylan/Beatles/whatever bullshit people like.

I do hope I get to be more creative, one way or another, than I have been for the past 10 years or so. My entry to professional adulthood has mostly been about discovering my weaknesses, and I'm just now getting back to my strengths (public speaking, making connections, starting fights, research + innovation, you know, crap) - but the transition from the ADD-maximizing hot potato juggle show to the long game has been ridiculously hard on my self-esteem, because I'm now "The Wolf" for a completely different set of people, mostly bureaucrats and academics instead of the actual people with problems.

So 2050 - I should be 10 years away from making myself obsolete. If my usual work habits continue, I'll be scrambling to solve five or six big problems all at once at work, and then at home, I'll be treading water as best I can while trying to understand what it is everybody sees in me that I've not been sent to live in a rubber room.

oh yeah I forgot to announce that KITTIES!!! is pregnant. due in march. thanks.

also - I will still probably be wearing 85% ll bean with the other 15% filled out by levi's, dr martens, lands end, costco and nike/converse/other
I MAY HAVE A BEARD.

It's a goal.

This is such a weird question to me, I can barely even consider it. Honestly cant even divine if I'll be alive or dead; in fact, i don't really care much either way. Whatever happens...

56, christ. I'm already bald so that's out of the way, and failing tragic events I will still be with my wife because she is orsum.

Hopefully after 2012 comes we will all be one immaterial pan-dimensional entity, and the question will only have one true answer, The Clear Light Infinity.

omg lil bot congrats tom!!!!!!

(I wonder if e-mail will still be the primary means of business communication by then, or if it will be replaced by some kind of XMPP++ with fast full text searching of logs).

i think u mean facebook

51, celebrating 20 years of marriage. No idea if there'll be kids; if there is, they'll be under 20 by quite a way, I suspect. Hope to have had a couple of novels published and live in a modernist glass house by then, but suspect I'll have a couple of novels written but not published and live in a Victorian house. Beyond that, I have no idea.

ill be 46 & most likely str8 crushin it

I'll be 44 and all I hope is that I'll have enough money to support whatever it is that I want to do (something creative, hopefully)

u graduated college at 24???
xpost

i mean 45

lol ur older than me

53... kids'll be 32,29,28 which I guess is likely to make me Grandad.

in 20 years i hope to slap tremendo, knock ridically

50, still dodging work i hope

whoa congrats tombot

42. Married with a husky and an 8 year old daughter named Iris who plays piano and reads comic books. Living in north London, working from home as a publish writer and occasional freelancer in publishing. Will have finally got around to learning the guitar. Would have had two skin peels and be at my target, healthy weight. Suffered from some sort of crazy medical problem that kept me bed ridden for a year but over it now. The subsequent book detailing my brain tumour or whatever doesn't sell a damn copy. Spend most of my time at my allotment, on ilx and still wishing I had a season ticket at the Grove.

56 urggh.

69

approaching fifty, living hand to mouth, doing nothing fun. Please god i dont bring kids into existence to share that with me.

positive answer- moved to canada in 2011 and wrote something, anything, for a living. Still with same partner, kids a moot tbh, but unlikely. Maybe taught something, anything, for a while.

Hey congratulations Tom!

God, 20 years from now. Honestly? Right now I have absolutely no idea.

Yes, congratulations Tom!

50 - at least the conscious part of my brain will be 50 years old, the rest of my body and most of my skull replaced by a jar filled with some sort of amniotic fluid, a steady stream of entertaining images piped directly into my retinae via optical tube. My children will be 17 and 14, working as bio-sentinels for the world government. They will rarely visit me because of the enormity of their carapace-like steel tech-armoured suits.

congratulations to tombot!

super tom <3 !

all you ppl who will still be younger than i am sicken me

on the bright side, more of yr posts will sound like me

max saying he'll be 46 made me feel giddily young for some reason

i was mistaken tho

ill be 45

still somehow comforting. even max will be 45 someday.

45 & still rocking everyones worlds

max, will u run the internet by then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgyA3lVqOZo

I couldn't have predicted where I would be in life now back in 1990 beyond hoping my friends, family and I were all doing well. I'll stick with that and see what happens otherwise; if I'm as pleasantly surprised by life as I have been for the most part over the last twenty years then that will be enough.

Ned OTM.

I will be 72 and hopefully alive. Maybe even a grandfather but no expectations/pressure on that one

could see myself living somewhere besides NYC at that point, most likely California.

My mother would be 102, and I wouldn't put it past her.

max, will u run the internet by then

― b'nai b'rith canal (m bison), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:24 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

already do my dude

already do

My parents would be 84 and 86 -- so, hard to say. I hope so.

56. On ILX.

Which is how much in ILX years?

yo max thanks for keeping the beatles off amazon

p certain both my parents will be dead and possibly my brother too. as i accepted the death of both parents at their worst self indulgent health threats, i'm positively shrugging at the idea. hope my bro doesn't die obv, although he could spend the next twenty years becoming less of an arse.

this thread is waking up my latent death-wish that I spent years suppressing, fuck u thread

np bluesk

44, I've got no bloody clue.

aerotm

all you ppl who will still be younger than i am sicken me

Agreed. I am already becoming more Morbs-ian by the day.

p sure aerosmith avowed on another thread that life began in his thirties so the next twenty years cant hold too much dread?

if my math is correct, he will be graduating from life high school in a while!!! congrats!

thanks, stressing out about what to wear to prom rite now lol

whatever u do, dont 4get ur life alert bracelet (it alerts u that this is life)