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The 5 things you want to do in the next 5 years thread
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thelad



Joined: 11 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. Get my MA in International Relations/Security
2. Complete my dive instruction (PADI) certs up to at least Master Instructor.
3. Work for the UK Foreign Office or a NGO working with security/refugees.
4. Get and stay in shape.
5. Quit smoking.

All within reach at the moment. I'll be 34 in 5 years.
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tottenhamtaipeinick



Joined: 05 Sep 2010
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. Find a career I really enjoy and venture further into investment opportunities, the career must make me smile during the day and not at the end of the day when its over and must let me have quality down time so I can be fun to hang around with.

2. Find the city I want to settle down in

3. Touch up on my Chinese and learn more Korean

4. Not buy the house my dad is trying to force me to buy in Brisbane (knowing far to well he is trying to get me to stay in his dismal city) though maybe purchase some investment apartments in Brisbane

5. Marry the woman of my dreams (Who I may already of found Smile
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johnnyrook



Joined: 08 Nov 2009

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. Learn to drive. I never really needed it before 'cause I always lived close to public transport.

2. Become fluent (or reasonably adept) in five foreign languages. Already advanced at spanish, but not quite fluent, hope to have come quite far in korean by the end of this year, and then it'll be french, chinese and german.

3. Write a novel.

4. Complete another bachelor's degree, in neuroscience, and commence a PHD in neuropsych or neurolinguistics.

5. Get married.
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Celebrate five drunken New Year's parties.
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scratchpiece



Joined: 24 Feb 2011

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Louis VI wrote:
cyui wrote:
Damn, everyone else has such a different kind if list. No one wants sex?!

We're already gettin' it.


Laughing
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debinoxford



Joined: 10 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. Finally have my own house in New Zealand.
2. Hold a job for more than 2 years outside of Korea.
3. Invest in the creative aspects of my life (sewing and jewelry design) to work on a second income.
4. Get my New Zealand residency.
5. Be in a committed relationship with the guy of my dreams (I'm pretty sure I met him, so we'll see what happens when I move back to NZ!)
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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System

PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. Not Die.
2. Not become seriously ill/injured.
3. Have at least a decent income.
4. See a ballgame game in every Korean ballpark (very doable).
5. Tour the Eastern Theater in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Start at Manassas, then the Valley, the Peninsula, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg-Chancellorsville-Wilderness-Spotsylvania, Gettysburg, Union Mills (Read the Gingrich books), Cold Harbor, Bermuda Hundred, Petersburg, and finally Appomattox.
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cyui



Joined: 10 Jan 2011

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is that so, huh?!So what is the secret?

How does one get it 2-3 times a day for free?
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Louis VI



Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cyui wrote:
Is that so, huh?!So what is the secret?

How does one get it 2-3 times a day for free?

Don't date, don't marry, just live together.
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Lazio



Joined: 15 Dec 2010

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Louis VI wrote:
4. Travel Hungary, Australia and Eastern Canada.


Interesting choice. May I ask why? I'm from there btw. Feel free to pm me if you think I can help you with something.

My list would be:
- stay healthy
- have a child (or better yet 2) I'm already married so it's doable Smile
- have at least 200,000 in assets
- travel some countries around Korea
- get my Korean to a decent level (long way to go)
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Kokoba



Joined: 07 Dec 2009

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like this!

1. Save up $10K.
2. Relocate to Stockholm
3. Finish at least one Swedish course (aspiring towards fluency, well aware it doesn't happen in five years)
4. Start teaching ESL in Stockholm
5. Maybe get married to my boy

There's others but these are the boring, brick-and-mortar "life plans" plans, if that makes sense.
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craigmcc1982



Joined: 07 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1) Buy a 2nd home in China.
2) Complete a round-the-world trip for 6 months.
3) Increase my mandarin ability.
4) Learn to play the guitar.
5) Start a family.
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mmstyle



Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: wherever

PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kokoba wrote:
I like this!

1. Save up $10K.
2. Relocate to Stockholm
3. Finish at least one Swedish course (aspiring towards fluency, well aware it doesn't happen in five years)
4. Start teaching ESL in Stockholm
5. Maybe get married to my boy

There's others but these are the boring, brick-and-mortar "life plans" plans, if that makes sense.


Is English your native language (sounds like it)? Swedish is not as difficult as, say, Korean, if so. Based on personal experience.....you won't need 5 years, especially if you are there. Stockholm is a fantastic city...but it'll eat 10K fast Smile
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Draz



Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam

PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 5:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Globutron wrote:
1 - In theory I can put my family back together in this time. My dad's just disowned me because I expressed my feelings. A taboo in a family environment, apparently. Life long separation between the two halves of the family, so it should take some time.

I'm not really close enough personally to be that bothered about it, but it would be a nice achievement on my own behalf, proving to myself how much I've developed as a person.


Sounds like you're setting yourself up for a big fall. You can't change anyone but yourself.

1. Get a second BA.
2. Achieve German fluency.
3. Become a being of pure light and love.
4. Play Skyrim.
5. Play Mass Effect 3.

I kind of ran out of possibilities after the third one.
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Cedar



Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. Get my Ph.D. (mostly finished with the dis. research so this will happen within 5 years)
2. Publish the dissertation (slightly more challenging b/c of the perfectionist issues with finalizing anything I write)
3. Get "the job" (at a well-regarded private liberal arts college or even a research 1 in the US or at one of the SKY schools here in Korea, of course, "the job" will be tenure track). Even if working in Korea "the job" will never ever include anything like ESL.
4. Have one child (yes, husband, I really will get around to it once I have secured "the job").
5. Find a significant way to give back to the world (other than through publishing interesting stuff). I'd like to work to promote sustainable lifestyles somehow... and I'm committed to promoting education in rural Tibetan areas
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