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.

Oh well in five years time we could be walking round a zoo
With the sun shining down over me and you
And there’ll be love in the bodies of the elephants too
And I’ll put my hands over your eyes, but you’ll peep through

And there’ll be sun sun sun
All over our bodies
And sun sun sun
All down our necks
And sun sun sun
All over our faces
And sun sun sun

So what the heck



I actually can't stand the song, but it was just so apt.

hopefully out of school, post-graduate in program of choice, in a position of decent employment (e.g. $75,000+), and living somewhere i can be happy with. as far as relationships go, i'm not exactly ready to settle down, but i doubt i'll be there in five or ten years either. some stability in that area would be welcome though.

i definitely need to make a clean break from the life i have now, probably going to try to move west after graduation (whether i go onto post-graduate work or not).

dead.

I'm hoping to be well involved with a music scene, after I hone my playing and get all of the equipment I need. I don't see myself going to a four year college, I might just break down on the second or third year. To be honest, I'm not one for school, I guess that makes me an idiot.

Either doing/done a degree in Art & Design/Biology, still staying with my parents :laughing: with a decent job that would require my degree, and definetly a decent car :thumb:

Enjoying reverse retirement.

You'll be lucky ^

Hopefully in a bigger house, or a mental health unit.

The dream: Working as a reporter for a Vancouver paper while doing some freelance writing for other contracts and living in a crappy apartment with a roommate

The most-likely scenario: Working as a forklift driver in a lumberyard and living in a crappy apartment with a roommate.

In five years I'll have graduated from college with some sort of useless degree, I'll have no money and no place to stay. At this point I'll probably hitchhike back to Chicago and enroll in one of our many low-level technical schools to begin a glamorous career in HVAC. I'll probably find a job and be living week to week in a housing project.

That's the reality when you have no ambitions, no desire, and no family to help you out.

in five years i hope to be spending most of my time in aprons and heels

some call it lazy. I call it an advance mission.

In 5 years time I will be almost 27. I see myself working as a fully qualified primary school teacher and having done so for a few years... there's still a shortage of teachers over here so hopefully it won't be too difficult finding a job. Maybe I'll be married, to the person I'm with now, maybe I'll had kids although that is much less of a possibility or desire, but I hope above all that I'll be happy and that I'll still have time to do the things I love. Like music.

From personal experience, it seems like the entire city of Vancouver hates people from Toronto. That crappy apartment would probably cost you an arm and a leg in Vancouver, too.

College. Hopefully Belmont but most likely UT.

I envy you people with bright looking futures, or maybe knowing what might happen in 5 years time. While my future remains vague as anything, I find it scarier than death itself.

I don't think much will change, other than me knowing more books, movies and music, plus getting even more unbearable to be around.
+ My mum pushing me to get married....

Or you know what,
I'm gonna change the above and add: I would've ran away from home, and ... ... ..

In 5 years time I see myself as nearing 43 I guess and still endlessly searching for music and teaching you young uns a thing or two ;)

I see myself raising my daughter, maybe a published author, and drinking a lot of coffee in bed.

famous muso surrounded by bitches yo.

I'll be celebrating the 5 year anniversary of you asking me this question. Oh!

I wonder what Music Banter will be like in 5 years....

banter.com

Maybe MB will split into Music.com and Banter.com - like some kind of enormous internet amœba.

I honestly don't understand why there's so much contempt for Toronto from all over the country, however I can assure you that I do not have any ill feelings towards the more Eastern provinces, except P.E.I. the lazy tossers.

Anyways, my last crappy apartment was 600 a month and it was 1000 square feet with real hardwood floor. It was a slum building, but it was a decent slum building.