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Livewire
Joined: 27 Feb 2011 Location: BI-WINNING!
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:09 am Post subject: The 5 things you want to do in the next 5 years thread |
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Well there are some things I'd like to do but can't
One of them is do a Muay thai camp for at least a month in Thailand. But I damaged my menisci doing mountian sprints, so I really don't think my knees would be up to it. I'd also like to go to Rio for carnival, but I feel if I liked the city, I'd be gutted that I couldn't stay there for a year as it would possibly ruin my career plans.
But here is my list, in no order of preferance and ommiting my career aims as I don't want to share those here. These are kinda off the top of my head and I'm sure my list would change over time, but these would be cool.
1. Smoke opium
2. Get certified and go deep sea diving. Have done 20 metres, but not the same.
3. Go jungle trecking in Borneo.
4. Live in Havanna for 6 months.
5. Do a Greyhound bus tour of the Southern states of the USA, stopping for a couple of nights in each major city and staying longer if I met people I wanted to hang with. |
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scratchpiece
Joined: 24 Feb 2011
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:25 am Post subject: |
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*Further my education - Masters in Education would be ideal...
*Live in Japan / Korea / China
*Teach at a prestigious University (overseas)
*Certified for deep sea diving
*Massive road-trip though America
Nice topic BTW. I'll be 31 in 5 years. |
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MoneyMike
Joined: 03 Dec 2008
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmmm 5 things eh?
- Travel in Africa and Europe.
- Put away at least 10 grand in savings.
- Get my Korean to a somewhat proficient level.
- Go skydiving.
- Do a trek out to the Everest base camp. |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Location: Suwon Station
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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In 5 years I will be 30.
- Expand my modeling career.
- Put away at least $100,000 in savings
- Get my Korean to high conversation lvl.
- Get Dive certified.
- Jungle Trek and spend a month or 2 traveling one country. (Repeat this 4-5 times during this period)
All of these are pretty easy goals for the next 5 years it seems. After one and a half years here, I've got $20,000. I can just hop down to the Philippines to get a cert, and if I land this UNI job I'll have a huge vacation to blow...although my girlfriend might try to guilt trip me out of it. |
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iselynjenniep
Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Location: bundang
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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this is a fun game!
1. get my masters
2. get a good job as a librarian, preferably at a school with summers off
2. trans-mongolian railway from beijing to st. petersburg (summer 2012!)
3. work/travel in australia for one year
4. road trip out west to colorado, wyoming, montana, & south dakota |
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Kaypea
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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1) After completing my MA (2 more years) and putting in the time in Asian univerities, getting a good ESL job in a Canadian college.. but in a warmer part of Canada, like southern BC, or maybe US or Australia/New Zealand
2) Travel: interesting parts of US, a place or 2 in Europe, maybe a touch of Africa
3) Get in and keep perfect shape
4) Get good at learning languages... perfect Korea within the time I stay here
5) Run out that biological clock by NOT having kids!!! See #3... |
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interestedinhanguk
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:11 am Post subject: |
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1.) Love someone special.
2.) Meet awesome people.
3.) Travel to amazing places.
4.) Eat a lot of good food.
5.) Have fun. |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:30 am Post subject: |
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1. Visit the moon
2. Meet the love of my life
3. Go on a world tour
4. Become Batman
5. Become a dump truck |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: Jeju
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:23 am Post subject: |
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Fun!
1. Eat a pie.
2. Write and edit a novel.
3. Get in shape and stay that way (not round shape)
4. Buy a house.
5. Make 2 real friends.
My husband is well aware of my pie goal (it's been on my mind a lot the last couple months) and thought I should up it and go for something like this:
http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Random-Food1-037.jpg
I think it's a bit ambitious. What do you think? |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Location: In my Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:01 am Post subject: |
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1. Rent my own place independent of a hagwon (probably will be in Busan or the province around it);
2. Get some quality speakers for my jeep and big quality speakers and music system for my place (love music, don't watch t.v.);
3. Start taking 3 to 6 month breaks between contracts (having my own place will make it easier/more stable to do);
4. Travel Hungary, Australia and Eastern Canada.
5. Have a kid (hard to do when a woman's not presently in the picture, but at age 41 the impulse is there to be a father, though as a man the biological clock isn't ticking so loud. Still...). An alternative/stopgap is to get some pets, a cat for sure, maybe a dog too. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Location: England/Anyang
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:37 am Post subject: |
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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.
2 - Great Korean ability
3 - Have enough money to start considering the next phase of my career.
4 - Have a repertoire of music significant enough to be a recognized composer for freelancing, orchestrating, arranging, performing, producing or whatever else I'm awesome at.
5 - Get my friend's T-shirt to at least 10 more countries, since he can't get to them himself. So far I've got it to 5. |
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ESL Milk "Everyday
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:34 am Post subject: |
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1. Figure @#$% out.
That is all. |
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cyui
Joined: 10 Jan 2011
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:41 am Post subject: |
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1. Meet the ideal 'Stalin"
2. Complete a PHD
3. Make a 100,000
4. Get a job working for the Federal government/Take over the family winery.
5. Get sex from #1
Damn, everyone else has such a different kind if list. No one wants sex?! |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Location: In my Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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cyui wrote: |
Damn, everyone else has such a different kind if list. No one wants sex?! |
We're already gettin' it. |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009 Location: Gyeonggi-do
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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1. Complete MA in public policy/public administration/refugee studies.
2. Get a job working for a NGO in one of the above fields.
3. Learn Spanish, German and Chinese to allow me to work in a lot more countries.
4. Take a train from Beijing to London.
5. Meet a fantastic woman.
How I'm doing:
1. Finishing a BA in politics and international relations in early summer. Have already applied to 6 universities for 2012 start - been accepted to 2 so far.
2. I have a couple of leads.
3. Studying German and Spanish independently. Now attending a Chinese hagwon twice a week.
4. Maybe the end of this contract.
5. Unlikely to happen. |
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