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How far ahead do you plan in your life?

a couple of years ago before I started uni I had my life mapped out pretty much, and nearly all of that changed within 12 months of starting.

anyone got any cool stories about a complete change in direction? has anyone ever risked it all to start a business? spent all your savings on a holiday? any regrets or good stories out of it?

I have found that when I stopped thinking about where I will be in 5 years my life has become a hundred times better. for those who went straight from school to uni to fulltime work do you have any regrets? I understand that there are some people that like a life in the one spot with no disruptions but I am restless as **** and i have only been back at work for 4 weeks.

The reason I ask is that I am considering throwing away a dream grad job (company car, phone, laptop with uncapped commission and a base salary of 55k) to travel and try find some work abroad. Its a tough decision because I like my life in Perth but a change of scenery is due. I will miss the interviews if I leave Perth when I am planning to.
 
Well if you want to travel then do it, then come back for your dream job i say.

I am coasting right now. I'm 19 and finished year 12 in 2009 and have no idea what the **** i want to do.
 
I finished my first year of uni last year, and now, with 10 or so days before I start again, I have no idea if I want to go back. I am leaning towards not going, because I dont think I really have any desire for my course.

Im also not the kind of person who gets a lot out of a full time job, so I have no clue what I want to do.
 

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Plan to finish my degree- entering year 3 of 3 now.

Basically plan to have a job <6-8 months after graduation, and work things out from there.

Figure everything else in my life will just follow on with that. Money in my pocket and a roof over my head is the most important thing. That is the base of it- where I build on.
 
HahnPremium said:
ProTip-The Emu will go the way of the ****in Dodo.
Generic hyperbole.
Echo the bold proclamations tho. I just dont think "The Emu" is up to it.
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I left school in year 11 purely because school wasn't for me. I wasn't learning anything and my potential career opportunites had nothing at all to do with school; it just wasn't for me. Left school, joined Tafe, 2 years later got a degree and start uni just on Monday so I can't regret anything at the moment. My main goal is to work hard while I'm young (turned 20 lat Sunday), save up enough moolah to be able to retire safely and happily and live out the remaining years of my life travelling. Love to have a couple of kids or so one day, that's not for a long long long time yet.
 
Left school in 91, with no idea what I was to do with myself. Didn't have the marks to get into uni, so I bummed about for a few years, working some shitty jobs and smoking my bodyweight in pot. Left Australia in '94 for the U.K. and spent the next ten years wondering around the world, lived in Vancouver for a bit, Jo'burg for a while (don't, just don't), Capetown and then settled in back the U.K. Bought a pub which I ran for a couple of years until I got sick of the lifestyle. Ended up managing a bookshop in Maidenhead (next town over from Slough for all of you Office fans out there). Came back to Australia in '04 and enrolled in Arts/Law, left that when I finished my Arts degree, didn't much fancy Law and got sick of greedy f*cking gen Yers telling me how many millions they were going to have by the time they were 30. Now working as a freelance writer, not making a great deal of money, but I have a roof over my head, I work my own hours, don't own a suit or a tie and the only person I answer to is myself. I still have no life plan, but thus far I'm pretty happy with the way it's all turned out.
 
Gough said:
. Ended up managing a bookshop in Maidenhead (next town over from Slough for all of you Office fans out there).
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I lived near Maidenhead for a year or so (2000-01), was actually in Burnham , worked at the "The Feathers" Pub (Taplow Common Road)
 
Gough said:
No, shit, I managed the Hammicks bookshop in Nicholson Centre. Also worked for a time at The Oak and Saw in Taplow village. Feathers was a decent pub if I remember correctly.
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Dont recall it, didnt get out much as prettty much worked flat out to get some money saved up to travel Europe.

The Feathers was ok more of a foodie pub than a drinking pub, at different times managed to meet Kylie Minogue and Rod Stewart they both came in to eat at the pub, there was a fancy estate (dont recall the name) nearby where alot of celebs used to stay, rumour was that Brad Pitt stayed there when he was in the England filming Snatch.


Sorry for going off topic, but does relate after I finised uni, the GF (now wife) and I took off overseas together, went to US, brought a car and took 3 months to drive from LA to NY, then went to UK worked (as above) then travelled Europe. When we got home we got married brought a house and had 3 kids, have sold house and looking to travel Australia for 8-12 monthsm in a 4x4 and caravan next year.
 

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Looking to move back to London in a few years, possibly get married and take the GF/wife with, but will stick around Chicago for the time being. Do tons of travelling, perhaps have a gypsy life and live around Europe.

Been doing software dev for 5 years now... i like it, but there are days where i wonder what else I could be doing, so who knows. Probably should upgrade my skills, maybe do an associates degree, finance perhaps, but not sure if the motivation is there. I swore I'd never go back to uni after I had finished my IT degree.

Move back to Oz in the distant future if I decide to have a family/retirement. Would love to settle back in Perth, but property prices there, or anywhere in Oz for that matter, scare me.
 
Year 12 had this big plan on becoming a financial adviser, got into the course I wanted, was desperately keen to go through with it. Failed units and quit at the end of the year and am now starting a teaching degree at a different uni. A complete 180 degree turn from what I wanted to do.

I just want to be happy in life and I am a person who gets satisfaction out of doing good deeds and helping people, something I believe teaching will connect with. Plus if I don't know if I could sit in an office building so much.
 
neng said:
Year 12 had this big plan on becoming a financial adviser, got into the course I wanted, was desperately keen to go through with it. Failed units and quit at the end of the year and am now starting a teaching degree at a different uni. A complete 180 degree turn from what I wanted to do.

I just want to be happy in life and I am a person who gets satisfaction out of doing good deeds and helping people, something I believe teaching will connect with. Plus if I don't know if I could sit in an office building so much.
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Those who can't do, teach ;)

Those who can't teach, teach gym
 
Finished year 12 with intentions of getting into Medicine. Didn't quite get the grades, so i enrolled in Science / Commerce. After 2 years I decided it wasn't for me, so I dropped it and for the next two years I worked, travelled (went to the States and all around Europe). Since then I have enrolled in Architecture at UWA and couldn't be happier. Completely different course from where I wanted to be during school
 

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neng said:
Hahaha, well I won't be a PE teacher, I prefer not to be that lazy.

But the 12 weeks paid holidays could be worth the 30 odd weeks of horror!
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Obviously not going to be a maths teacher either!

Got over school in year 12 and did little work, scraped into uni doing science, did a year and a half and failed a session and had 6 months off, went back last year with a different major and did alot better, got about two years (but only nine subjects) left to finish and then depending on financials will either travel then or do a dip ed and travel after that (and teach).

Got other vague longer term ideas, but they are all a fair way off
 
I'm ambitious as hell, and I know I want to own and operate my own business. Not 100% on what that is, though.
 
My original plan was to finish high school then finish a university degree in sports management and accounting. I've done both of those but I don't know where I'm going now which is kind of frustrating. I thrive on planning and organisation. At the moment I've got neither of those. It's pretty scary for me.
 
Mine's pretty much year to year......

Started out Year 10 thinking about Accounting......changed mind late in the piece after old fart of a maths teacher convinced me to go down the Maths C route. Eventually re-mapped out plans during Year 12, have a crack at teaching. Was going OK for a while but eventually got too stale for it.

Now my plans were pretty much thrown a curve ball this week when I got promoted from a part-time mail sorter to a full-timer.....it may or may not be now easier to do a few of the things I want to do in the next few years.
 
I've come to the conclusion that you can make life plans, but they don't always happen as planned so there is little point in making big ones. Does that make sense?
 

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