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Thinking ahead 15, 20, and 25 years

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

A friend recently posted on her LJ where she thinks she’ll be in the next 15, 20, 25 yeas. Since I rarely if ever think about I’ll be in the next 5 years much less far­ther out; I decided to take a moment to pon­der the same ques­tion. Here is what I came up with:

2021

• Age: 46
• Employ­ment: Still work­ing and prob­a­bly shoved into some sort of man­age­r­ial posi­tion. Read­ing the techie news sites so I can fol­low the con­ver­sa­tions being held by the peo­ple I’ve got report­ing to me. Won­der­ing if we’re ever going to get those fly­ing cars that they’ve been talk­ing about since I was a child.
• Van­ity: Rather enjoy­ing how my beard & hair are inter­mixed with grey.
• Health: Still work­ing to get rid of my cookie gut¹ and prob­a­bly start­ing to take a vari­ety of med­ica­tions for arthritis.
• Hob­bies: Still read­ing plenty of sci-fi, fan­tasy and mys­tery nov­els. Actu­ally, I’m prob­a­bly read­ing more of the mys­tery nov­els as I either don’t under­stand what they’re talk­ing about in sci-fi/fantasy these days or I just don’t care any­more. Addi­tion­ally, I’ll be doing odd jobs around the house renovation/restoring bits & pieces of my cas­tle². Lastly, I’d like to be work­ing more on my pho­tog­ra­phy skills and pos­si­bly learn­ing to build fur­ni­ture³.

2026

• Age: 51
• Employ­ment: Start­ing to think a lot more seri­ously about retire­ment and giv­ing this work crap over to these younger guys with all the energy. Prob­a­bly shift­ing my retire­ment invest­ments to being more con­ser­v­a­tive. Also, tak­ing advan­tage of my senior­ity to get myself sent to all the inter­est­ing con­ven­tions, train­ing sem­i­nars and events. Or at the very least all the ones tak­ing place in inter­est­ing places.
• Van­ity: Not so sure I like the all grey hair any­more. Par­tic­u­larly when the lit­tle whip­per­snap­pers run­ning around call me gramps.
• Health: Finally got rid of my cookie gut, but get­ting awfully cranky about all the meds I have to take.
• Hob­bies:

2031

• Age: 55
• Employ­ment: Some sort of senior design posi­tion, as man­age­ment jobs might get bet­ter pay but they all suck.
• Van­ity: Seri­ously, I’m 55 and not dead. That’s prob­a­bly all I need to be vain about at this point.
• Health: Seri­ously hop­ing the cur­rent research into cyber­net­ics will be com­pleted in time for me to dump my meat­bag for some shiny steel & silicon.
• Hob­bies: Going to pub­lic places and pre­tend­ing to be older and meaner than I actu­ally am to annoy all lit­tle whip­per­snap­pers run­ning around. :D

Side note: I started writ­ing this post up a cou­ple of weeks ago when the friend’s post first appeared, but as hap­pens a lot set it aside to work on later. Now that I’m going back to work on it again, I noticed a few dif­fer­ences in how I’m orga­niz­ing the infor­ma­tion. Whereas my friend wrote her post in a more nar­a­tive form; I’ve got bul­let points. I can think of two imme­di­ate rea­sons for this difference.

1. I’m lazier than my friend
2. My friend stud­ied Eng­lish and writ­ing; while I stud­ied busi­ness & com­put­ers. All my train­ing tells me that nobody really wants to sit there and read the crap I’ve writ­ten so I’d bet­ter con­vey my point as quickly & clearly as I can. Her train­ing is all about try­ing to engage the reader in what she’s say­ing. I think I like her way bet­ter. Ah well.

¹ I don’t really care for beer, while I do love munch­ing on freshly, baked home-made cook­ies. Yum­m­m­mmm!
² “Cas­tle” is used here in the sense that every man’s home is his cas­tle. Rather than in the more lit­eral sense, though if that did some­how hap­pen I think it would be pretty dang rockin’.
³ I like wood­work­ing, but opporuni­ties for doing it while liv­ing in an apart­ment have been extremely lim­ited. Since I’m buy­ing a house, I expect I’ll get to do more of this. If only in home repairs and it might lead to more inter­est­ing things.

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