Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?
 

Considering how grim the current economic situation is-those of us in uni don't have a clue how we'll get on when we emerge, and those of us in work don't know how long we'll keep our jobs for,I'd like to know what MusicBanter members think they'll be doing in 5 years time.

I personally hope to be off this godforsaken island,living and working elsewhere having finished uni.
What about the rest of you?

Well i finished my degree in June, and since then have been working at a photography retailer to make money. After xmas however im planning on stepping out into the big wide world and finding a job that requires a degree, partially to make more money but moreso to challenge myself.

So in five years time i hope to have a good job with a matching income, a serious relationship would be nice too. I also need my own place again, which i hope will come to fruition soon.

I'd like to be in some sort of relationship as well, I'd like to have children while I'm still young and energetic enough to look after them properly.

Degree in what Stu?

I would like to be out of the ****ing military in five years. I would also like to have my degree almost finished, if not finished by then.

I want kids when i can afford them, basically.

Anthropology & Media. The last two months of it were the most stressful of my life.

Teaching music, hopefully! By then I'll be finished my B.Mus degree and probably a Masters if things go as planned. Teaching is basically a recession-proof job.

Not really,considering they arn't taking any on in quite a lot of places.

In my region, there is a huge demand for well-trained music teachers. I completed a summer internship at the Royal Conservatory of Music here in Toronto, and started giving private flute lessons. I charge a flat rate of $40/hour, working Saturdays and most weeknights. Schools here (both public and Catholic) are cutting funding to arts programs, much to the dismay of parents and teachers alike. Thus, more people are looking for private teachers, either through the RCM (which does NOT have enough staff) or independently.

^ Something like that anyway.

Shit...I don't really know, and that's sad. The biggest thing I hope to change by then is that I'd finally like to be a homeowner! Job-wise and location-wise, I really don't have a clue. Unless the company I've been with for the past 3 years gets any bigger and provides me with opportunity for advancement (can't go much higher as-is), I'd like to be working elsewhere with more responsibility and more money. Where in the world though? I don't know. I'm happy here for now, though cost of living is high and it's not helping me save money.

As for relationships and kids...ugh. My current 5-year relationship isn't going so well and may very well come to an end over the holidays. I've been thinking about it a lot from many different points of view, including love, finance, and logistics. I just don't know, there are pros and cons from almost every angle. And I'm not ready to have kids now (or maybe just with her), but I'm also getting older and no longer young and energetic, that's for sure. Past my prime, I guess. But yeah I just don't know if I even want any. And if this relationship ends, I'll definitely want to stay single for a while, and since I'm lazy and procrastinate I could very well still be single in 5 years. But would I really mind? I don't know. As long as I have a social life to supplement it, I could be ok. As long as that social life includes an occasional date.

So where will I be in 5 years? Probably still depressed. But maybe I should do something about that before it's too late.