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Author Topic: Where will you be twenty years from now?  (Read 8314 times)

Kamiko Hautala

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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #15 on: 29 Apr 2010, 10:47 »
Hopefully you're dead before you're 40?

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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #16 on: 29 Apr 2010, 11:57 »
In 20 years I'll earn enough money to sustain myself and, if it happens, a family, while still being able to put some money aside for general savings as well as various hobby related things.

The other scenario has me without a family and stinking rich... but I'd die with probably 50 of a heart attack, which mightn't be that nice.  :|
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #17 on: 29 Apr 2010, 15:13 »
Quote from: IzzyChan on 29 Apr 2010, 08:14
Quote from: Sofia Roseburn on 28 Apr 2010, 15:37
Dead. Before I'm 40.

Same. Hopefully. ._.

I pretty much assumed that I wouldn't live past 30. I am now 36... >.>

<.<

Mostly intact after past excesses, and really quite content these days. As for where I may be in 20 years: fuck knows. I'm really not sure where I'll be next year even. I'd like to be comfortable financially and doing something I love, though.
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #18 on: 29 Apr 2010, 15:20 »
I'm curious about the mindset that one will not live past an arbitrary but early age. The only places where I've encountered it directly are urban slums (think gang members, etc.) and front-line military personnel, usually specialized types.
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #19 on: 29 Apr 2010, 16:11 »
Quote from: Casiella on 29 Apr 2010, 15:20
I'm curious about the mindset that one will not live past an arbitrary but early age. The only places where I've encountered it directly are urban slums (think gang members, etc.) and front-line military personnel, usually specialized types.

You are maybe overlooking the drugs, sex, and rock n' roll angle. :)
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #20 on: 29 Apr 2010, 16:19 »
Well, I'm not saying it doesn't happen... just that I tend to know people in those other two categories more than that one. That explains a lot, though. ;)
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #21 on: 30 Apr 2010, 07:55 »
You forget people that have depression.

The idea of suicide after tolerating their miserable existence for some set time can get them through some rough patches.
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #22 on: 30 Apr 2010, 09:18 »
Quote from: lallara zhuul on 30 Apr 2010, 07:55
You forget people that have depression.

I can state quite categorically that I do not forget about depression. You may be making unwarranted assumptions about other players' private lives. :)
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #23 on: 04 May 2010, 11:28 »
The alcohol, the cigarettes, and the coffee. They all add up. I'm happy with my vices at the moment, but I'm more than aware that I'll eventually do something stupid at some point.

Coffee number 8 today by the way.
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #24 on: 16 May 2010, 16:30 »
Hopefully not a Grandma, *happily* married with 1-2 more 'tween aged kids working as a full-time CPA in an office with my own real wood desk (desk quality means something in this field) and living in a modest and paid off stick built house.  Maybe a rental or two as well... yes.... passive income.  *smirks*
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #25 on: 18 May 2010, 10:16 »
2012-3: Escape the Army
2015: Complete my MA in Economics
2020: Married, 1 kid, simple but comfortable life as a low-level policy analyst/economist. Probably still have my 2010 Insight.
2030: Still married, still 1 kid, moderately important government or think tank economist making in the vicinity of $100k annually (2007 dollars).

Alternately:
2012: KIA, Afghan theatre.

I'd really prefer the former.
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #26 on: 18 May 2010, 10:51 »
Yeah, we would too. :)
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #27 on: 18 May 2010, 15:06 »
I'm looking forward to being the 40 year old, grouchier-than-he-should-be-for-his-age English professor who shows up to class in a surplus WWII British trench coat and carrying a small thermos of "mineral water" and belittles the majority of his class for bringing up movies he dislikes as examples of Byronic heroism.

I'm just extrapolating possibilities based on current trends in my life, of course.
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #28 on: 20 May 2010, 01:57 »
Quote from: Senn Typhos on 18 May 2010, 15:06
I'm looking forward to being the 40 year old, grouchier-than-he-should-be-for-his-age English professor who shows up to class in a surplus WWII British trench coat and carrying a small thermos of "mineral water" and belittles the majority of his class for bringing up movies he dislikes as examples of Byronic heroism.

I'm just extrapolating possibilities based on current trends in my life, of course.

Heh. Nice image. :)

I think 40 is a little bit young for that level of eccentricity, though. You need a suitable level of grizzliness to your features to pull it off. :)
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Re: Where will you be twenty years from now?
« Reply #29 on: 20 May 2010, 02:17 »
Grizzledness is easy to acquire by the time you're 40: have kids.
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