What Are You Going To Be Doing In 5 Years?

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

"Two chicks at the same time." was the first thing to come to mind. I'm gay, so that's not exactly something I'd look forward to. It'd be awkward and "unproductive" at best.

[Luthia]

Expanding the local roleplaying club I'm already running to a world-consuming roleplaying something. Probably while advicing which ever queen of the world comes out top, and playing power-behind-the-throne... Also, hopefully finishing my candidate in classical languages and finding something not too useless to use it on. perhaos forcing everyone to learn Ancient Greek Grammar. Then I wouldn't need to explain how it's different all the time...

No, honestly, no idea at all.

[DungeonmasterCal]

Of all the questions that I was ever asked in job interviews, this is the one I hated most. I could never give a real answer, because I've never had a great deal of self-confidence and really never saw myself as advancing from where I entered the job. I'd just make something up, lying to myself as much as them.

And now? God willing, I'll have my own place again. My wife and I are the best of friends, but have been more like roommates than spouses for nearly all of the 20+ years we've been married. We're going to divorce as soon as I can get my disability worked out and can afford to live on my own. Beyond that, I can't say. I learned a long time ago to never make predictions about my future, because they've never come true and I just end up disappointed in myself.

Wow. That really took a turn down Bummer Avenue.

[Robert Hawkshaw]

Kelsey MacAilbert wrote:

Hopefully getting my Bachelor's in either Animation or Illustration. I've got some obstacles (a complete an total lack of experience and therefore lack of skill), but I also know full well that I want to build the experience and skill and earn that damn degree.

I thought you were going for a marine biology type degree?

[Robert Hawkshaw]

Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:

Comrade Hawkshaw!

Long time, no see.

Anyway, it'd be nice, but I expect that instead I'll be loading the trucks of the Burlington Mall.

Been busy working on stuff. Some of which I'll be posting up in the "why I love my life" thread tonight hopefully.

Also, if you subscribe to the sort of historical inevitabilities view of marxism by loading those trucks you are quickening the revolution :P

[Comrade Anklebiter]

Robert Hawkshaw wrote:

Been busy working on stuff. Some of which I'll be posting up in the "why I love my life" thread tonight hopefully.

That sounds distinctly like impending fatherhood.

Will there soon be a little Hawkshaw running around, organizing kindergartener student strikes?

[Gark the Goblin]

In five years, I'll be laughing at everyone who ever implied webcomics were anything less than the bees' knees.

Like I am now, but louder.

[Klaus van der Kroft]

Hopefully married, brewing some kids, making even more olive oil and finally getting on my dream of starting a fine cheese factory.

[Fire Mountain Games]

In five years, my daughter will be eleven. I'll still be happily married. I'll almost certainly still be living in Oregon. I'll still enjoy scotch, hiking and reading voraciously.

And I'll still be writing roleplaying game books.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

[Bane Blue]

Yeah, I was asked that in a job interview too. I told them hopefully I'd be back in Panama sipping drinks and bribing the local children with chocolate bars.

Alas, I am an out of work college graduate.

Now... Five years from now, I hope to be raising a second child, maybe working toward a doctorate in English, and still be happily married, and happily gaming.

[Bane Blue]

DungeonmasterCal wrote:

Of all the questions that I was ever asked in job interviews, this is the one I hated most. I could never give a real answer, because I've never had a great deal of self-confidence and really never saw myself as advancing from where I entered the job. I'd just make something up, lying to myself as much as them.

That's funny. Not in a bad way, but in a hysterical, I have been there, done that, sort of way.

Never could figure out why they want to know what I want to be doing in 5 years. Am I supposed to say "Working as a manager" or something in their company? So I just always answered the truth. I hope to be sitting around on a desert island bribing small children (who speak a language I don't) with chocolate bars. Drinking iced drinks, and just being appreciated for being me.

DungeonmasterCal wrote:

And now? God willing, I'll have my own place again. My wife and I are the best of friends, but have been more like roommates than spouses for nearly all of the 20+ years we've been married. We're going to divorce as soon as I can get my disability worked out and can afford to live on my own. Beyond that, I can't say. I learned a long time ago to never make predictions about my future, because they've never come true and I just end up disappointed in myself.

I wonder about that myself. How do you know what marriage is supposed to be like. I'm married, and we feel like friends, but what IS supposed to be happening?? Anyone know?? :)

DungeonmasterCal wrote:

Wow. That really took a turn down Bummer Avenue.

Well, in my opinion, none of this sounded bummer. It sounded truthful, and real. Bummer is finding out five years later that you're unemployed and not sitting under that tree drinking an iced drink, bribing children with chocolate bars. :)

[Terquem]

If, speaking hypothetically, I could have answered a question like this at the age of, let’s say three, then it is conceivable that I could have been asked this question a total of nine times.

I would have been wrong in my answer, every single time.

I see no reason to break a streak like that.

[DungeonmasterCal]

Bane Blue wrote:

Bummer is finding out five years later that you're unemployed and not sitting under that tree drinking an iced drink, bribing children with chocolate bars. :)

This.

[Robert Hawkshaw]

Comrade Anklebiter wrote:

Robert Hawkshaw wrote:

Been busy working on stuff. Some of which I'll be posting up in the "why I love my life" thread tonight hopefully.

That sounds distinctly like impending fatherhood.

Will there soon be a little Hawkshaw running around, organizing kindergartener student strikes?

Jan 2 or so. Was hoping the ultrasound today would tell us the sex, but the baby spent the whole time curled up in a ball. Next time!

[Turin the Mad]

Assuming that I've neither been devoured by Aberzombie's hordes nor committed to an asylum...

I aspire to be playing Mr. Mom with a couple-three mini-Turins getting underfoot and tormenting the Fursome Foursome while Missus Turin is making bank.

And to have hopefully concluded the Horror on the Orient Express campaign. ^__^

Anything else is open to speculation.

[Freehold DM]

AWRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!

Robert Hawkshaw wrote:

Comrade Anklebiter wrote:

Robert Hawkshaw wrote:

Been busy working on stuff. Some of which I'll be posting up in the "why I love my life" thread tonight hopefully.

That sounds distinctly like impending fatherhood.

Will there soon be a little Hawkshaw running around, organizing kindergartener student strikes?

Jan 2 or so. Was hoping the ultrasound today would tell us the sex, but the baby spent the whole time curled up in a ball. Next time!

[Freehold DM]

Fire Mountain Games wrote:

In five years, my daughter will be eleven. I'll still be happily married. I'll almost certainly still be living in Oregon. I'll still enjoy scotch, hiking and reading voraciously.

And I'll still be writing roleplaying game books.

Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games

GO FELLOW GARY

[Freehold DM]

Me, I'll probably have a kid by then. And my PHD or well on the path.

[Sissyl]

Aim high enough that being wrong is not disappointing. Hence, world empress.

[Steve Geddes]

Ensirio the Longstrider wrote:

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Gark the Goblin wrote:

meatrace wrote:

I turn 31 this year. Sept 1st.

Now, would you like to tell us your mother's maiden name?

Sure. It's the same as the first half of my last name. She didn't change it when my parents were married, mine's hyphenated.

You'll not get my SSN though!

If I guess it correctly you'll tell me, right? I bet it is...

** spoiler omitted **

Am I right?

That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

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[Shifty]

Freehold DM wrote:

Me, I'll probably have a kid by then. And my PHD or well on the path.

I can't work out what, exactly, I am passionate enough about to push myself through the thesis for all that time.

[Andrew Turner]

If things go according to plan, I should be retired from the military and teaching philosophy and English literature--hopefully at a quiet university somewhere above the 44th parallel.

[Don Juan de Doodlebug]

Robert Hawkshaw wrote:

Comrade Anklebiter wrote:

Robert Hawkshaw wrote:

Been busy working on stuff. Some of which I'll be posting up in the "why I love my life" thread tonight hopefully.

That sounds distinctly like impending fatherhood.

Will there soon be a little Hawkshaw running around, organizing kindergartener student strikes?

Jan 2 or so. Was hoping the ultrasound today would tell us the sex, but the baby spent the whole time curled up in a ball. Next time!

Woot! You sure were busy in Turkey!

Congrats!

[Doodlebug Anklebiter]

Andrew Turner wrote:

If things go according to plan, I should be retired from the military and teaching philosophy and English literature--hopefully at a quiet university somewhere above the 44th parallel.

I hear Tierra del Fuego is nice in the summer. Where are you stationed now?

[Sharoth]

Hopefully still empoyed with my current employer, still married, in good health, mostly debt free, and finally going back to school.