Thread: What are your plans for the future?

Originally Posted by Nadia

I have a mini plan sorted out.

I graduate college in two years and then I will move in with my boyfriend. It will take another year or so to get my masters and when I am done with that, we get married. After we get married we might wait a year and then we will start with kids. Then who knows after that.

Who gets a master's in a year? At least a master's worth anything that is. Not trying to flame just saying - unless you're already taking graduate level classes, how on earth do you propose to have your grad courses, your research, your thesis AND your defense/dissertation prepared in a year?

Originally Posted by MrTroy

I hope you never have a job interview then. Most positions, even shitty ass retail jobs, ask you where you plan to be in 5 years, some jobs even ask 10 if you are going to be a manager or executive.

Not even the same comparison. Nadia's life falls apart if her boyfriend and her break up. She is not relying on herself to make it. That's not the kind of thing a job interview is about. They want to know if you have ambition and enough of your shit together to get to where you wanna be.

Originally Posted by Cryptic

Not even the same comparison. Nadia's life falls apart if her boyfriend and her break up. She is not relying on herself to make it. That's not the kind of thing a job interview is about. They want to know if you have ambition and enough of your shit together to get to where you wanna be.

Actually my life wouldn't fall apart jackass. I will have degrees and can find another guy and I don't really have to worry about money.

My boyfriend and I have seriously talked about our futures and we are going to try our best to see our plan happen. If not we do have backup plans and we know not everything happens the way you want.


And no, I will not be grooming dogs.

Originally Posted by Nadia

Actually my life wouldn't fall apart jackass. I will have degrees and can find another guy and I don't really have to worry about money.

My boyfriend and I have seriously talked about our futures and we are going to try our best to see our plan happen. If not we do have backup plans and we know not everything happens the way you want.

Well see bitch, since we're into namecalling now, these are key points you left out in your original post which sounded strangely like "I love my boyfriend SOOO much and I'm gonna have 30 of his kids and he's going to take care of me for the REST OF HIS LIFE because he loves me SOOOO much too and we're gonna be together forever and I'll just DIE if we're not *giggle*".

Although I still don't know in what field you're going to get a master's in a year. Also, what's a masters? You're overqualified for entry level and underqualified for upper level. Congratulations, you're just fucked yourself over, unless it's an MBA.

Get my A-levels in Biology, Chemistry and Maths. Apply to Cardiff, Southampton, UCL and some other unis (I don't know which one I wanna go to though, if I get accepted for more than one) on the Biomedical Sciences course.

After that... either get a research post or do a graduate-entry degree for Medicine... Depending on whether i've won the lottery or not.

Originally Posted by Cryptic

Well see bitch, since we're into namecalling now, these are key points you left out in your original post which sounded strangely like "I love my boyfriend SOOO much and I'm gonna have 30 of his kids and he's going to take care of me for the REST OF HIS LIFE because he loves me SOOOO much too and we're gonna be together forever and I'll just DIE if we're not *giggle*".

Although I still don't know in what field you're going to get a master's in a year. Also, what's a masters? You're overqualified for entry level and underqualified for upper level. Congratulations, you're just fucked yourself over, unless it's an MBA.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY THREAD

Originally Posted by MrTroy

I hope you never have a job interview then. Most positions, even shitty ass retail jobs, ask you where you plan to be in 5 years, some jobs even ask 10 if you are going to be a manager or executive.

Actually, I meant it as in the whole marrying her boyfriend thing. I wasn't talking at all about a job interview.

Whenever anyone asks me that - job interview wise, I typically crib a line and say, "Celebrating my 5/10/whatever year anniversary here in whatever position you need me in."

When I was applying for a job at a movie theater in New York, they asked me where I saw myself in 2 years. "Celebrating the 2 year anniversary of you asking me that question with my broom in hand."

Or my current job. "Celebrating the 4 year anniversary of you asking me that question while putting files back on shelves."

Naturally, my current job is eliminating my position in... the next year, so my fourth anniversary will never roll around. But I've been promoted since then and I no longer work on shelves, so I guess we're all liars.