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    Skigod377
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      What do you hope to accomplish 5-10-15 years from now? Where do you see yourself? What do you see yourself doing? Married? Car? Kids :shock:?

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      Skigod377
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        #535205
        dragonmedley
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          That’s a loaded question!

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          #535206

          Filled with imponderables! 😆

          The only certain things are that I won’t have kids and I’ll have more Windstones. 🙂 Though I’d like to be thinner and fitter and further along in my career…and I wouldn’t mind having a bigger house either so I have more space for the Windstones…he he he…

          #535207
          drag0nfeathers
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            skigod377 wrote:

            What do you hope to accomplish 5-10-15 years from now? Where do you see yourself? What do you see yourself doing? Married? Car? Kids :shock:?

            EEep! That’s a scary question! Sounds like something my boyfriend keeps asking me! (since I still don’t have a job) LOL! I wish I could make a living by painting to tell you the truth, but it just doesn’t pay enough. I’d LOVE to be working in special effects in movies and maybe even CGI! I always thought I could paint the skin of mechanical sci fi monsters and do make-up, stuff like that! That would be so COOL! I’d have to go back to school though, I’m sure, and I doubt that will ever happen. Not that I don’t want to, I just don’t have the time or the money. Truthfully, in 10 or 15 years I’ll be lucky to be making what my boyfriend makes right now! LOL! (I have to laugh or I’ll cry) I have this horrible feeling I’m going to have to get a new retail job and start at the bottom rung of the ladder AGAIN! I’ve had over 5 years of management experience in over 10 of retail. I HATE RETAIL! HATE IT HATE IT! I could waitress again, but it feeld so embarassing to say “oh yea, my boyfriend is a sucessful computer engineer making like 22 bucks an hour and I’m a waitress….or I work at Best Buy….” but it’s all I’m qualified to do. *sigh* It’s depressing to think about. I always manage somehow so I’m not too worried. I’ve NEVER borrowed any money from anyone ever and never accept it when people offer. I’m just not like that so I suppose I’ll be okay one way or the other.

            Marrige? HAH! You know I already got a fakey proposal about a year ago, on Christmas, and when I opened the ring box it was a game boy advance game inside. WTF! I wanted to kick him in the face! I got the whole “I love you and I want to stay with you forever” schpeel and he got on one knee and handed me a little velvet ring box. I was like 😯 “what’s this?!?!” He’s like “Just open it, and you’ll understand” so I open it and theres a DAMN GAME?!?!?!? He busted out laughing and slapping his knee like “Did you really think I was going to ask you to marry me? HAHAHAHAHA” Yea, I was pretty pissed off! Ever since then marrige has been a touchy subject between us. He’s lucky were still together after pulling that as far as I’m concerned……..jerk…Maybe SOMEDAY, but NOT ANYTIME SOON! LOL!

            Car is simple, I’ll NEVER own a foreign car again no matter how much I want it. Paying for a rebuilt tranny for my Mitsubishi costed more then what I paid for the car! Never again! I REALLY want a Chevy Avalanche or a (dare I say it) an Escalade Pick up in that sparkely rust/orange paint! *drool* I LOVE THEM! I don’t know why I have an infatuation with trucks. Right now I have a lowly Ford Ranger covered with Invader Zim car decals. They have Gir pointing at all my Ford symbols and laughing at them. I always swore I’d never buy a Ford. I’m a Chevy girl, but I have to say it’s never really given me too much of a problem in the 3 years I’ve had it. A couple of stupid little things, but nothing major. Though I have a bad feeling something is wrong with my 4 wheel drive *shakes fist at sky* Only when I have no money these things happen.

            Kids is EASY! NEVER! With the way I was raised…I dunno. Honestly, I am too selfish to have children and I can admit it. I’m not, nor do I thinkI would ever be ready to give up my Windstones, video games, and time for kids. If I ever DID have a child it would have to have the absoulute best of EVERYTHING! I would be strict, but spoil them too. Like the parent who won’t let them date till their 21, but already have college paid for them and buy them their first car. Things like that. I know I couldn’t afford to be the best mom on the planet so I don’t want to have any kids until I can. I’m actually a big fan of adoption myself. I mean, it costs less to adopt now then to even have a kid. Hospitals are ridiculous ESP if you, like me, have no insurance.
            I’m also a bif fan of baby sitting =) If I feel that kid urge, I’ll just borrow someone elses for a while. I have too many breakables to have one full time, haha!
            I’ll stay with my 4 legged kids I think =)

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            #535208

            ummm
            well I am a Mother’s girl….so my future really depends on her. ha!
            She retires in 8 years *my dad is already retired from the military. When she retired they are selling their house on the water which should sell for over a million. Then I will sell my smaller house in town, and we will all move to New Mexico. Its our main goal.
            I hope to the Goddess to have kids by then. My partner is in Nursing school so she should have her RN lic. in 3 years. THen I will go back to college to get a degree in Social Work.

            Dragonfeathers…slightly off topic, but take a look at your local Nursing Homes and look into an “Activites” position. You don’t need any experience, you just need a fun personality and the ability to answer the same question 50 times an hour. 😆 I love my Alzheimer’s residents. “No that is not B3…that is O69”. ha! Bingo! I literally play bingo for a living and I make fairly good money to do so. No special education needed and many places are hiring because not everyone will work with the elderly. And no diper changeing involved!

            #535209
            Skigod377
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              Drag0n… I would have killed your bf. I cannot believe he would pull a stunt like that. What a jerk. It really doesn’t matter that he is successful when he acts like that.

              I was just asking cuz its good to have goals. I wanted you to think of the future cuz of all the problems you are having finding a house. You will get there. Dont worry.

              #535210
              Jodi
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                Within the next year, I’m hoping to graduate with a master’s degree in English, an emphasis in teaching college writing. (Actually, that goal is within the next three months.) And get a teaching job somewhere close to my mom. She’s 79 now and falls down a lot. I live too far away right now, but my brother is there a lot. I’d like to be closer so I can take care of her.

                I’m looking to teach at a community college or technical school, or a private secondary education school (just not state funded universities – need Ph.D. for that). No high school – I don’t have the license needed.

                I’d like to help my husband either successfully sell his patent license or get an M.F.A. in theater so he can take a teaching position at a university.

                Kids. No. We’re too old now, I think. And we have my step-daughter Megan (she’s turning 15 this year), and my step-step-son Michael (who is 21). Along with them, our three kitties are enough. I’m so set in my ways that I would have a hard time changing to have a kid. And if we did and it was allergic to my cats, I’d be so upset… I wouldn’t know what to do. I think I’d get rid of the kid before the cats. J/k… maybe. It’s hard to say, since I’ve never had one.

                #535211
                dragonmedley
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                  drag0nfeathers wrote:

                  Marrige? HAH! You know I already got a fakey proposal about a year ago, on Christmas, and when I opened the ring box it was a game boy advance game inside. WTF! I wanted to kick him in the face! I got the whole “I love you and I want to stay with you forever” schpeel and he got on one knee and handed me a little velvet ring box. I was like 😯 “what’s this?!?!” He’s like “Just open it, and you’ll understand” so I open it and theres a DAMN GAME?!?!?!? He busted out laughing and slapping his knee like “Did you really think I was going to ask you to marry me? HAHAHAHAHA” Yea, I was pretty pissed off! Ever since then marrige has been a touchy subject between us. He’s lucky were still together after pulling that as far as I’m concerned……..jerk…Maybe SOMEDAY, but NOT ANYTIME SOON! LOL!

                  I’m not laughing. Fact is, unless it’s a running joke or something within the couple, you DON’T DO STUFF LIKE THAT!

                  Hem. Ok, I’m calmer now.

                  Call him up and tell him you’re pregnant, then start laughing. Let’s see if he find THAT funny. 😈

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                  #535212
                  SPark
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                    dragonmedley wrote:

                    drag0nfeathers wrote:

                    Marrige? HAH! You know I already got a fakey proposal about a year ago, on Christmas, and when I opened the ring box it was a game boy advance game inside. WTF! I wanted to kick him in the face! I got the whole “I love you and I want to stay with you forever” schpeel and he got on one knee and handed me a little velvet ring box. I was like 😯 “what’s this?!?!” He’s like “Just open it, and you’ll understand” so I open it and theres a DAMN GAME?!?!?!? He busted out laughing and slapping his knee like “Did you really think I was going to ask you to marry me? HAHAHAHAHA” Yea, I was pretty pissed off! Ever since then marrige has been a touchy subject between us. He’s lucky were still together after pulling that as far as I’m concerned……..jerk…Maybe SOMEDAY, but NOT ANYTIME SOON! LOL!

                    I’m not laughing. Fact is, unless it’s a running joke or something within the couple, you DON’T DO STUFF LIKE THAT!

                    Hem. Ok, I’m calmer now.

                    Call him up and tell him you’re pregnant, then start laughing. Let’s see if he find THAT funny. 😈

                    Yeah, I agree. Any man who pulled a stunt like that one me would be dumped the instant he did it. That’s not cool at all. (And I think getting revenge with a fake pregnancy would be very funny, and just what he deserves too!)

                    #535213
                    Jodi
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                      I agree. That was a dirty trick.

                      #535214
                      drag0nfeathers
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                        Thanks Ski and everyone for the vote of confidence =) LOL! Dragonmedley! I’d be SO afraid to do that and I’d really end up getting pregnant with my luck!!! LOL! Although I DO need to get back at him someday. I think I’ll make it sound like I was cheating on him or something one of these days. 😈 Naaaa, when he really does ask I’ll just act pissed off I didn’t get a new game =) HAH!

                        I lost an AWESOME house today so I’m pretty POed at the moment. *sigh* A really nice Victorian house too. *grumble*

                        Whippet, I’ve considered that. My grandmother had Alzheimers though and had such a horrible death. I saw her when she died and the picture always popps into my head! It definatly scared me for life. It’s something worth looking into though.

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                        #535215
                        nessiemom
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                          Drag0n… Have you talked to your local jr college (just because it’s usually cheaper, and the people more helpful) about student loans/pell grants/scholarship money? You might be surprised at what classes they offer, too… I know the jr college I’m attending is getting big into cg stuff…

                          #535216

                          I agree with Nessie. I think if you have a plan and you’re disciplined, you can go to school part time while you’re working. Then you can get the qualifications to do what you really want and also make good money!

                          With your talents I think you’d be really good at the art related movie stuff you mentioned…and doing the makeup, prosthetics, or miniatures for movies like LOTR looks like a lot of fun! Or you could be an artist creating the graphics for computer games. One of my friends is a game programmer and he told me that most of the staff is composed of artists doing the graphics.

                          #535217
                          drag0nfeathers
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                            That would be SWEET!

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