Do you know where you're going to.....

[4getmenot]

Who can honestly say that they are in a place now that they thought they were going to be in when they were younger, you know when you used to say to your mates in 10 years time etc

[OBonio]

I always thought I'd be married with kids before I was 30 and that I would be a programmer.... All I need to do now is make a million somehow and all my aspirations will have been achieved.

[4getmenot]

you see I remember when I was 19 sitting in our local bus stop and me and mates were disgussing it and I expected to be married with at least 2 children by now. see know one ever knows.

[mccfluff]

i didn't think i be stuck in a sodding office getting bored stupid every day, that's for sure!

[angussyung]

Never knew where I would be, I know that Ive been pretty fortunate, you know, good job, nice house, great wife and kids, people love me etc etc. Except Im off work at the mo cos I got a blooming DVT! Never would have seen that coming!

[4getmenot]

bored mcfluff, bored! You're on here how can you be bored, ok fair enough :-)

[nutgoneflake]

Ten years ago I was busy planning our wedding and had just started a great new job. Now I'm just on the brink of being able to go back to work again, having been at home with the boys for the last 5 or so years! The littlest starts school in September and our 10th anniversary is that month too, so for me it's actually more like what will the NEXT ten years have in store.

I'd quite like to be a teacher - something that I wanted to do when I was a child and never did. Maybe it's time for that??!!

Gosh, 4get, now you've got me thinking....!

[4getmenot]

I always wanted to be a primary school teacher and went and helped out in one for work experience, I now work in an office

[whiskeysheri]

'Morning, 4get!

Ten years ago, I was just about to start at secondary school and meet my two best friends. Now, I'm just about to move in with them both, but I would never have imagined that happening back then. I was only 12, but I thought I wanted to be a vet all those years ago (I'm not!).

Saying that, when I was 5 I wanted to be have my own ice-cream van so when it doesn't always turn out how you thought it would, it's not always a bad thing! LOL! :o)

[nutgoneflake]

I used to want my own camp site aswell! I might have gone out of business this year....

[confused79]

10 years ago i was pregnant with my second child and imagined that 10 years from then i would own my own house and have gone back to work and live happily ever after with my then fiance.

Not so much a fairy tale happened in the end, owned my home, got a good job, but not happily ever after with my then fiance, but you cant have it all can you.

Didnt think any of what happened woudl happen, but then i think its part of life,

If i look backabout 15 years when i was 13 i wanted to be an actress or in musicals as then i was a dancer and loved performing,,,,,, still deep down i still wish i could be!!!

[Pippa68]

I never had a 5/10 year or life plan. Good job really as when I ever plan anything it all goes tits up!

I did say that I would have all my children by the time I was 30. I had my last child at 33, so 6 years ago I vowed I would never say anything like that again.

[Psychick]

I have at times sat and thought where I would like my live to be in 10 years, still do sometimes...........but like Pippa has said......plans go tits up (for me anyway) so Ive learnt to just go with the flow!

One thing me and my boyfriend have agreed to never try is going on dates and celebrating our anniversary! We are seriously jinxed there! lol

[Pippa68]

Tell me about it Psychick...it was our anniversary last weekend and I spent 15 hours stuck in traffic on the M25.

We missed our dinner date and were too knackered to do anything else :o(

[tiny e.a]

10 years ago I had just had my heart broken by Mrs Booth, my maths teacher, who told me unless I knuckled down I'd never get the grades to be a vet, and how right she was! After that I didn't have any plans except that I would never become a secondary school teacher, now I am currently in the process of applying to do just that! So no, I can honestly say I'm not.

(When I was in infant school I used to think I would have 3 children when I was 16, 17 and 18, so that I didn't embarass my kids by being the oldest mum at the school. thank God that one didn't come into fruition!)

[Scarlett]

Reading back my old diaries are fascinating. They say that I wanted to act, but that I would probably end up teaching music or drama. Which is what I do! This was from a 12 year old kid! Even then I knew I had great aspirations, but that I would probably end up teaching. Weird.

[Pippa68]

Your last sentence is fab, legend.

My nan's favourite saying is 'happiness is not having what you want but wanting what you have'

I think that applies in both our lives, mate :o)

[EngTeach]

I'm 38 and never in a million years did my life turn out as I would have liked. No Kids, no husband (not even an ex-husband). For the last three years, other than work, I spend my time caring for my mother. (Cancer) Siblings feel that since no hubby, no kids, this is my physical/financial reasponsibility.

I never give my HS students those "Where do you see yourself in 5, 10, 20 yrs?" assignments. Too depressing when they ask me what I thought I'd be doing. (Work is as I'd hoped for.)

Sorry to be so morose, just a bad time. My mini-holiday was cancelled as not only did the family I was visiting have a med. emergency, but I was struggling to fing someone to stay with mom.

[annie0000]

Strangely, I always thought I would be dead by 35 - now 41 so I am pretty glad that didn't happen!!!! I don't know why, I guess that I just couldn't imagine being a "grown up". Now married with two kids and I still don't know how that all happened.... Well I do really, but you know what I mean.