Seeing as I'm almost 37, in 5 years I'll be nearing 42, and hopefully nearing or having finished a doctoral program in either History (what I want) or Education (what will actually get me into teaching college faster).

Kids that don't annoy me all that much.

a wife who has time for me.

a smaller amount owed on my morgage.

Shock worker for research productivity? Newer, better gulags?

I'l like to have my student loans paid off by then, shouldn't be out of reach.
Be productive enough that I can take weekends off at least half the time without huge anxiety--this means I need to get something in a top tier general-interest journal, I guess. I would prefer that research to be useful and not purely theoretical.
With all that free time it would be nice to be a little more involved in a community--I've never had the same address for five whole years, roots begin to seem not unattractive.

Dunno if I'm ready for the obligations of home or pet ownership. Perhaps in the five years I will come to some conclusion.

Lloyd Dobler: "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that. Right now, I just wanna hang with your daughter"

No idea. None at all. And at age 39, it's pretty fucking ridiculous.

Two promotions
Trade the '69 Mach I for a '67 Goat
Outlive Barry Bonds by four years and counting

- start living the car-free lifestyle (this will hopefully be a reality as soon as August!)
- find myself a woman
- move up at my current office, where I am still a fairly satisfied employee
- bowl

same plan as i have now:

go.
fight.
win.

Damn, five year plan...hmmm.

- Definitely have travelled more
- Will my mother still be alive and if so will I still be caring for or ...?
- Have my own business with my current boss
- Renovated the house to include more room for my music collection
- Had a lot more sex compared to the past five years
- Become healthier and more productive

Realistically: take a writing course, build a social network in Reading, work until my work permit expires next April and see what happens

In dream-land:
- Write non-fiction bestseller Musings of a Skinhead Neo-Gnostic.
- Earn most of my income through royalties and speaking tours.
- Be a guest on both the Daily Show and Yail's bingo night.
- Marry an actress from Poor School class of '05 or '06, who will go on to win a number of acting awards.
- Be featured in a "Class of '75" article in Vanity Fair magazine about famous and/or influential people in my birthyear.
- Have a nice house in southwest Colorado on enough property to build a stonewall labyrinth based on the floor pattern at Chartres Cathedral.
- Maybe a kid... or two...

Good shit.

"What is it, don't die?"

Mine:

Be rich/retired at 29.

Absorb media at a rate never seen before.

Hopefully produce some media of my own.

Not to startle you, but there's an ongoing debate in graduate education in the humanities (forgive the assumption, but you seem like a humanities kind of fellow) about the ethics of accepting folks into programs when there are few to no academic jobs in these areas nowadays. At least, they say, students should be warned that only about 1/5 of them can be expected to find academic careers. So, while I'm a social scientist, and have nothing to do with your education, do consider yourself duly informed. And ask about placement rates for your anticipated degree. Unless you'ld do it in either case for kicks, in which case it doesn't matter because you'll be having the Most Fun Ever studying and it will all be worthwhile.

To survive myself

To stop being a cliche'

To not get into trouble with the law (or at least, not to pick a losing battle)

To find a chick who is hard-of-seeing and likes my voice

Where the hell were you when I ways getting my MA? What is/was your major?

Anyways in 5 years I could be:
In school getting my doctorate
or
working abroad
or
being a house husband to some rich woman

I started my five year plan three years ago, and I'm WAY behind.

My 5 year plan involves starting a family business. I've been making other people rich for my whole career by inventing and designing cool shit from laptops to phones to medical devices. I'm good at it and I am well compensated, but I don't own any of my work. Sure, my name is on 2 dozen patents, but they are worthless to me as I am the inventor and not the assignee.

My son graduates as a mechanical engineer with a business minor this year and we will be putting our heads together to come up with a business plan. 10 years ago I would have opted for a recording studio, but today that kind of set up is used less and less in favor of home studio recording. I'd love to own a radio station but don't have the capital to get in and commercial radio is mostly run by media conglomerates that cater to advertisers seeking niche markets. It's just not diverse and fun anymore.

I've been keeping a "bug list" for a long time. When I find something that bugs me I make note of it. When I travel, especially overseas, when I rent a car, when I try a new sport or activity and am off the beaten path I'm open to dicovering things. I ask "Why?" and "Why not?" questions that lead to innovation. I try to pay close attention, and take notes on my impressions and reactions to things that bug me. One of these experiences will form the seed of my independance. I will have my own company and gainfully employ my wife and children, an most importantly, fund my lavish retirement.

my five year plan:

*meet a nice boy i could possibly even imagine spending a year with (let alone the rest of my life.)
*hopefully a promotion at my current job....or at the very least a salary boost.
*more travel. (including experiencing the ocean for the very first time.)
*leave ohio.