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vox · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: Jeollabukdo

In my photo album. I'm 38 now. Ha! Sorry I couldn't resist.

No when I was in my 20s I had completely unreal ideas of where I wanted to be. I was getting there too, but I was so unhappy on the way.
35 was time for a career change as the destination didn't even matter anymore. Typical 20something mindset. Luckily I traded in my Vic20 20something career idealism for a pentium5 30something career-and-happiness upgrade. And I've really enjoyed the change. Much happier, lots more love to go around.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

I'm 29 today (yup, happy birthday to me) and in 6 years' time I expect to have achieved qualified teacher status in the UK and worked in one or two other countries besides Korea. Not sure about marriage. I've always wanted at least one daughter, but I've resigned myself to the fact that it's unlikely. I'm not sure I'm capable of the selflessness that children require or indeed of a long-term relationship.

oneofthesarahs · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Location: Sacheon City

I keep coming back to this thread and starting to type an answer, but then I hit the backspace and revise, then backspace again and again until there is nothing left.

I'm 23. I have no idea what I want to be doing when I'm 35. I don't even know what I want to be doing half of the time NOW. I would like to have a novel written and published by the time I'm 35, I know that much. Other than that I don't really care where I'm living or what job I have or if I'm married with kids or not as long as I'm healthy and enjoying my life.

Treefarmer · Joined: 29 May 2007

i aim to be off the booze by 30 Cool

thatwhitegirl · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Location: ROK

Julius · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

Xerxes · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:41 am Post subject:

Wow, didn't know that you both were writing books and you seem surprisingly not neurotic or immature--the usual fare for young bohemian "writers."

I'm going to start a writer's pitfalls and solutions thread, and I'd like you to join in to discuss and help each other. I will try to keep out the riffraff and the psychotics, the usual fare for any of those "writing clubs."

Game?

legalquestions · Joined: 25 Mar 2007

I was senior partner of a law firm in the southern USA, looking for a way out of all the long hours, stress, and Rambo litigation tactics. Ah, the bad old days!

Ginormousaurus · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit

I aiming at being reasonably fluent in Korean, Mandarin, Japanese and one other language (possibly Vietnamese). I'm 25 now and can almost check Korean off the list, so I guess I'm on my way. I don't really have a reason for learning any of these languages other than that I want to live in Aisa for a while and get something out of it besides just money. I think I'd like to be married and start a family too.

butlerian · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea

35? Wow...good question. I'm 24 now, and a Law graduate. I guess I should return to the UK to pursue my career at some point, but I'm genuinely enjoying life and teaching in Asia too much at the moment to go back. Money would be better (at least in the long-term) in the UK, but that's not everything to me. I've really no idea at the moment, and I'm sticking to teaching and writing at the moment.

Otherside · Joined: 06 Sep 2007

I would like to have finished writing my novel (I need to start first Razz

), get it published and hopefully achieve some success. Personally, I would like to meet a wonderful woman, get married and have kids. Travel. All by age 35.

I'm 24.