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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 06:44 PM
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Where do you see yourself in five years?
Edited on Fri Jan-25-08 06:45 PM by Swede
The place I work at is getting new owners,but I don't think the company will survive. 24 years there,but it's time to move on.
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 06:45 PM
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1. I had to stop myself
from saying my first thought.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 06:46 PM
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3. Sometimes not hitting post message is the best reply.
Edited on Fri Jan-25-08 06:47 PM by Swede
:toast:
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 06:49 PM
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5. I think you're right.
I've just drunk a bottle of wine...

and my sense of humor (at this point) might be annoying for others...I'll see what everyone else says then chime in later on.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 06:46 PM
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2. I have no idea
Five years ago I was a slackard bachelor.

Now I'm married with a career I love.

I like surprises so I don't dwell on the future.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 06:46 PM
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4. 24 years? I salute you!
That's a long time to stay in the same place. I don't know what type of organization you work for, but I'm more interested in where you see yourself in five years!

As far as I'm concerned, I hope to be a writer, a researcher of media issues, and an advocate for improving the democratic process in this country.

~Writer~
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 06:51 PM
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6. In five years, I'll be a card-carrying member of the AARP,
just raking in those discounts!
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 06:53 PM
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7. Kids will have graduated and hopefully be out on their own
Who knows what I'll be doing, probably the same crap I always do. But without the added burden of worrying about their bills
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 07:08 PM
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8. Telecommuting from Traverse City MI and close to retirement. Maybe dating Jessica Simpson, too.
I figure that she'll throw Tony Romo over by then.

To be honest with myself, maybe I've got a better shot at that Traverse City thing.
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IzaSparrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 07:10 PM
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9. I'll see myself in a mirror.
(look at you, you handsome devil!)
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bluhoodie Donating Member (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 07:50 PM
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10. When asked this at job interviews
Edited on Fri Jan-25-08 07:51 PM by bluhoodie
I'm tempted to say "In your job, after you've been bounced out of here!" :evilgrin: But I make up something more acceptable - and try to look sincere - instead.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 07:51 PM
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11. Hopefully with 1 or 2 kids and done with my Master's
and a good start on a retirement account for Sniffa and I...I hope. :)
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Catsbrains Donating Member (352 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 06:49 AM
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33. me too....a masters and maybe a baby or two!!
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 07:53 PM
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12. I've never been good at predicting my life
probably because my predictions usually include other people, and you can't rely on other people
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 07:53 PM
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13. Self-delete.
Edited on Fri Jan-25-08 07:54 PM by Peake
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 07:56 PM
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14. Standing, with one leg triumphantly on matcom's carcass, being photographed by Annie Liebovitz
Edited on Fri Jan-25-08 08:01 PM by Rabrrrrrr
as part of the feature article in a newly resurrected Life Magazine, dedicated to America's most important patriots.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-25-08 08:58 PM
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15. living in the mountains at high altitude
People place too much emphasis on their careers.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 12:37 AM
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16. Destination unknown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DywDz5lbyQI


:shrug:
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Generic Brad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 12:38 AM
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17. Large and in charge
Well, maybe not in charge. But definitely large.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 12:44 AM
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18. Just remember: More than 4 hours and you'll have to go to the ER...
Lord only knows how much it'll cost in 4 years...
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 12:49 AM
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19. I used to think I had put down roots. Weird, that you posted this
tonight. I was just telling a family member today that I am ready to sale and move on. I thought I had found a home. I guess not.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 12:50 AM
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20. My brother asked me to move to Alberta.
May not be a bad idea.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 01:00 AM
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26. Might not be, at that ...
:D
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 12:52 AM
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21. My dear Swede...
Five years...

It sounds like forever...

I expect to be right here on DU, and living in my home with my husband...

I hope!

I'll be 69 then...:scared:
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 12:54 AM
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22. It's nice to know you'll be here Peggy.
You're always a breath of fresh air.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 12:57 AM
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25. Thanks....
:hug:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 12:56 AM
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23. Done with school and moved away. nt
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Donk Yore Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 12:56 AM
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24. Waking up wondering what the hell day it is
and why there's a giant purple sandwich with huge eyes staring at me.

Same as every other day!
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 01:03 AM
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27. Welcome to DU, Donk Yore!!
:toast: Nice to have ya aboard. :hi:

Don't know what to think of the "giant purple sandwich with the purple eyes", though....:D That would scare anybody!
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Donk Yore Donating Member (632 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 01:06 AM
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29. Hey! Thanks!
Glad to be around!

:toast:
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 01:05 AM
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28. I have no idea...
hopefully I'll be done with college and (finally) moving forward in life.
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 01:09 AM
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30. I see myself happy with life and grateful to be alive
:thumbsup:

My kids will be 19 and 16 in five years, so we'll have one in college and one still in high school by then.

I'll probably still be actively involved with my hospice volunteer work.

My husband and I will celebrate 20 yrs of marriage in five more years, so that'll be great.

I'll be 49, pushing 50....wow.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 01:13 AM
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31. Living in a rebel camp somewhere in the Rockies...
...planning attacks on the transportation and energy infrastructure, as a first step in bringing down the Republican president and his rigged government.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 01:14 AM
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32. hmm
in truth, back home in SE Alaska, back home....
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 07:40 AM
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34. i really wish that i had a better idea than i do right now. nt
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 08:26 AM
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35. In a mirror, same way I do now.
:shrug:
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 08:33 AM
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36. Hopefully getting ready to watch a Democrat get inaugerated after winning re-election
with my almost 10 year old daughter and my wife of 11+ years.

Workwise, I have no idea. I'll be happy if I've had steady employment in my field the previous 5 years
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 08:36 AM
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37. What I would like: settled down with a very wonderful woman
Edited on Sun Jan-27-08 08:58 AM by billyskank
I guess she would be about to turn 44 and I would be 36, but that would be okay.

But it probably isn't going to happen. I think it's only a dream. *big heaving sigh* :(
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 08:38 AM
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38. Assistant VP or possibly VP at the place I work now.
:D Yes, it's going THAT well. :bounce:
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 08:46 AM
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39. Fort Dix Medium Security for tax evasion.
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 09:00 AM
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40. I don't want to think about it
:scared:

At the rate things are going, I'll be divorced unemployed, and living under a bridge. Or worse.
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 09:05 AM
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41. raiding small towns and villages, constantly hiding, constantly on the run
from the mindless hordes of flesh eating ghouls. trying to stay away from population centers, but needing fuel and foodstuffs.

i see myself as the coordinator of a ragtag group of survivors scratching a hard fought existence in the coming zombie holocaust.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 02:39 PM
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42. I'll be dealing with two teenagers.
:scared:
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Hangingon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 04:51 PM
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43. Hopefully shooting my age - damn close to par
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Ishoutandscream2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 06:05 PM
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44. Fixin' to retire. God willing
I have 6 more years and I can start drawing a pension. Depends on how the economy is. Thanks to Herr Bush, I may have to put in some more years after that. We'll see.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 07:38 PM
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45. My plan only goes 3.5 more years. The plenary session for the next five year plan is in 2 years.
So I'll have to defer this question until the numbers are examined and the plenary session sets new goals.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 10:29 PM
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46. Famous (maybe infamous). Published novelist. Maybe a mother.
Hey, I posted maybe, don't be flaming me with comments involving "irony," "look what I found in the archives," and "Good luck, 'Mom'."
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 10:32 PM
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47. dead
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 10:38 PM
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48. Closer to retirement than I am now.
:D
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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-27-08 10:41 PM
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49. Under a bridge
with a flashlight and a cardboard box (no chip in me though....)
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 01:51 AM
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50. The same place as now, pretty much...
but with less clutter. And maybe in the midst of writing a book.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 01:54 AM
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51. moved either to Tulsa or Northwest Arkansas
so I can be near my son

but be out of this town

doing what?

work?

school?

both?

who knows

If someone had told me 5 years ago that I'd be living in an apartment by myself and my son would be living with his mother in our house, I'd have wondered what they were smoking.

But then again, its not like that thought had never crossed my mind (moving out)

so moving on

that's what my goal is.

but not too far
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 02:07 AM
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52. I don't have that clear of a picture, really
Out of graduate school, hopefully working a job that I at least can tolerate and hopefully something more stable than what I've worked thus far. Out of where I'm living now; whether that means back in my hometown and its vicinity or not I'm not sure. Hopefully with more of a clue about everything in general and happier in general than I am now... but those two are more hopes than certainties.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 02:15 AM
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53. since that would be several weeks after dec. 21st 2012- it's anyone's guess.
from what i understand, pole shifts can be a bitch.
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