Ahh, the dreaded question, mostly asked during an interview, where you should answer with "Sitting in your chair with your a$$ out on the street!" Okay, maybe not the best answer to give, but still, if it's a job with McDonalds and they ask that, what are you meant to say? Like, what kind of answer do they expect? Surely no one wants to be working at McDonalds for longer than 5 years!! Okay, you might bull it up a bit and say be a supervisor, or assistant manager, but I'd hope you would say "Not working at McDonalds!"
This question, which I posed to myself has got me thinking, where do I see myself in 5 years? The short version is, graduated from university with my Masters Degree in Architecture, and own a house, wife, kids, two dogs and a mini-van.... Okay, I got a bit ahead of myself, the first one was true, as for the others, errr not really. In 5 years I will be, umm, 27 years old, so yes, having graduated uni is a big one. As for a house, it would be very hard to enter the property market while studying at uni, unless I somehow got a big lump of cash inserted into my bank account. If I happen to meet the girl of my dreams and we get married within the 5 years, it's not like I'd be sad, but as for kids, I'm in no rush for that. Owning a dog would be cool, could use him to find the future Mrs Richardson, since my sister-in-law doesn't like the idea of me using her newly born daughter to do so. Maybe replace the mini-van with just any sort of car, jeep wrangler would be nice.
Location wise, I'd like to be living in Melbourne or Geelong, right now my university options are either Deakin in Geelong, Melbourne University in Melbourne (Believe it or not) and RMIT, again in Melbourne. In a few weeks I could have the urge to maybe head north with my studies to Sydney or Brisbane, or head west, but if I'm down south, I'd not be complaining.
What do I hope to do within these 5 years? Well I should be composing some sort of a bucket list, but I know for sure what I am doing before I ring in 2012. For a couple years I have toyed with the idea of jumping out of a plane, well this year, I, Anthony Richardson, will jump out of a plane, with a parachute! I have wanted to experience that feeling, and by golly I'm going to.
Other ambitons...
* I would like to study abroad for a year, experience a new country, and perhaps go on a holiday to Hawaii, maybe Vegas, do the whole 'marry a stripper but don't remember it' thing.
* Learn to surf is on the list, which I will be doing if I move to Geelong.
* I also would like to swim with sharks. Ideally I would be in a shark-proof cage, but if they don't have any, I'd risk it, no biggie, I'm brave like that.... Over the internet.
* Be a cool guitarist, since I've recently started self-teaching myself the guitar, in 5 years I hope I'm decent enough nobody cringes when I go near a guitar.
With life being so un-certain, trying to know where you will be in 5 years time is a bit silly. When I was 15, I didn't see myself as a 20 year old living at home and working where I was working, yet, I was. I just hope in them 5 years I just enjoy life, embrace all the challenges that decide to enter my everyday life and forge life-time friendships with great people.
From The One They Anthony, This Is The Life & Times
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