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What's your next step in life? What are you working on? What do you want to accomplish?

Oh God a horrible question. I've been struggling with the thought of joining the peace corp after I finish school. This possibly leading to a job working in a war zone with the UN or one of the other large rebuilding, security, and humanitarian organizations. I'm not sure what exactly I need to do to be able to qualify for such positions though.

If not anything like that perhaps law or publishing? Most likely grad school. But I dunno I gotta finish school and get out there a bit first.

I'm thinking of going back to school. And soon to buy my 2nd house.

hmm...good question. I guess there are alot of things...so I'm gonna break it down a bit

Education: continue at BU. Improve my GPA. Graduate. Go to grad school (hopefully for theater)
Work/professional: get a job bartending. teach high school english.
Travel: see as many countries as possible, starting with Ireland, Italy, and Australia. Possibly see if I could teach English in one of those countries
Artistically: keep painting, writing, taking pictures. get better at all 3. maybe learn guitar
Romantically: get a girlfriend, at some point get married.
Overall, to always be satisfied with who I am, and to never stop trying to make that person a little better.

PhD in Pure Mathematics by 26. Solve the Riemann Hypothesis by 40. Professional Billionare by 55. Ah, the simple life.

Oh God a horrible question. I've been struggling with the thought of joining the peace corp after I finish school. This possibly leading to a job working in a war zone with the UN or one of the other large rebuilding, security, and humanitarian organizations. I'm not sure what exactly I need to do to be able to qualify for such positions though.

If not anything like that perhaps law or publishing? Most likely grad school. But I dunno I gotta finish school and get out there a bit first.
I've been looking at peace corps too...I know I want to see another country and live there...I just don't know if the peace corps are the right group for me...

I've been looking at peace corps too...I know I want to see another country and live there...I just don't know if the peace corps are the right group for me...

Well if you want to see some of the really shitty parts of countries and work in them the peace corp is an option. Otherwise I just suggest studying abroad. I'm gonna finish my last (extra) semester abroad in germany next semester and finish out a german minor. From there we'll see if I want to take the plung into humanitarian work or if I want to do something else.

Well if you want to see some of the really shitty parts of countries and work in them the peace corp is an option. Otherwise I just suggest studying abroad. I'm gonna finish my last (extra) semester abroad in germany next semester and finish out a german minor. From there we'll see if I want to take the plung into humanitarian work or if I want to do something else.
haha...yeah, study abroad isn't so much an option because of the number of required classes for English education majors, and no other country teaches English quite the same as the US...and education classes have to be done in Mass to graduate and be certified.

As for seeing the shitty parts of poor countries, that interests me...but 28 months is a long time...

what about you Cabra? What are your goals? (no fair asking and not answering;) )

haha...yeah, study abroad isn't so much an option because of the number of required classes for English education majors, and no other country teaches English quite the same as the US...and education classes have to be done in Mass to graduate and be certified.

As for seeing the shitty parts of poor countries, that interests me...but 28 months is a long time...

what about you Cabra? What are your goals? (no fair asking and not answering;) )

True, I'm an English major as well but I finish my last required class this semester. So I'm only taking German classes in Germany.

what about you Cabra? What are your goals? (no fair asking and not answering;) )

That's the point of my thread ;)
I reached all my goals (well, those that could be realised and weren't just fancy daydreams), and now I'm a bit stuck. I'm not quite sure what my new goals should (and could) be...

That's the point of my thread ;)
I reached all my goals (well, those that could be realised and weren't just fancy daydreams), and now I'm a bit stuck. I'm not quite sure what my new goals should (and could) be...
haha...I thought so. Just needed the confirmation;)

congrats on fulfilling your goals. I love doing that. I like to set personal goals first (as in who I want to be, what I dislike about the person I am, but keep the parts I like), then fill in my other goals around that.

as for what your goals could be, I think I will fill in for Eut in saying you can do anything you want.

My medium-term plans (3 years) are finishing my graduation, find a job where I can learn more, start saving up for a house and move there with my better half

haha...I thought so. Just needed the confirmation;)

congrats on fulfilling your goals. I love doing that. I like to set personal goals first (as in who I want to be, what I dislike about the person I am, but keep the parts I like), then fill in my other goals around that.

as for what your goals could be, I think I will fill in for Eut in saying you can do anything you want.

I know, but that's the tricky part. I've no clue what else I could want that I could actually reach... I know one or two things that I might want that are completely out of reach, but nothing else really.
I'm just trying to figure out what I might want in the future.

I know, but that's the tricky part. I've no clue what else I could want that I could actually reach... I know one or two things that I might want that are completely out of reach, but nothing else really.
I'm just trying to figure out what I might want in the future.

Stop giving up before you try and just become the professional ballerina you always wanted to be. It is better to regret something you have done than something you haven't done. I'll go see you perform if you pay me.

Stop giving up before you try and just become the professional ballerina you always wanted to be. It is better to regret something you have done than something you haven't done. I'll go see you perform if you pay me.

*lol
Now, if there's one thing I never wanted to be, it's a ballerina. And there's not much room at neither NASA nor ESA for geriatric astronauts, despite what Hollywood wants us to believe...

Pfft, goals? Goals are for people who can't think on their feet.

First day of uni for the semester today. My current goal is to wake up and get to uni in time for my 9am pols tomorrow morning.

Current goals? PAss my A-LEvels with at least three Bs.

Then if I manage that miricle, I'll go for turning water into wine and parting the red sea...

My goal is to develop an aerosol ebola and sell it to the Communists much hillarity will ensue.:gundge: :eek: :confused: :( ;) :mp5: :p :sniper: :headbang: :mad:

My goal is to develop an aerosol ebola and sell it to the Communists much hillarity will ensue

Ah yes, because all we want is to annihilate humanity in an exceptionally painful way. I'm sure that was a footnote in Das Kapital somewhere. :rolleyes:

World Domination

Pass, Year 12, get a fairly good ENTER score, get into a uni so I can learn to program.

I plan to go to the Palace of the Eastern Sea dragon and extort an Iron shaping pillar (minimum 7 tons), golden armor and cloud ring boots. Then I'll be needing a proper title....

My Goal? Total Self Destruction.

My Goal? Total Self Destruction.

Admirable.

World Domination
Everyone wants to do that ;)
Pass, Year 12, get a fairly good ENTER score, get into a uni so I can learn to program.
You don't need to go to uni to learn to program. It will help your style and things immeasurably, but you can get the basics by getting a book on your chosen language, then either GCC, Java, one of the Visual Studio Express (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/) thingies. Even better; something you program in BBC BASIC, like an Acorn Electron. Everyone learns to program in BBC BASIC.
I'd recommend you learn C, as it's the simplest. After BBC BASIC, obviously. Java is horrible (learn C++ for OO), and VB's ugly.

What about me? Not sure... I'm at one of those "what do I do next?" stages too... I think a different job would be nice, but they're all just jobs once you've had them a few weeks. If I can make self-employed computer-building pay for itself, though, that'd be groovy.
Oh, and move out of home, but the two are probably mutually exclusive.

What's your next step in life?
Finish high school then on to college.
What are you working on?
Living abroad, learning new language and culture, getting to know myself. The usual thing people say when they get do what I'm doing.
What do you want to accomplish?
Too many things.
I know what I don't want to be: ffity and wishing I was my age.
So, I'm doing my best to avoid that. I've seen too many good bad examples.

You don't need to go to uni to learn to program. It will help your style and things immeasurably, but you can get the basics by getting a book on your chosen language, then either GCC, Java, one of the Visual Studio Express (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/) thingies. Even better; something you program in BBC BASIC, like an Acorn Electron. Everyone learns to program in BBC BASIC.
I'd recommend you learn C, as it's the simplest. After BBC BASIC, obviously. Java is horrible (learn C++ for OO), and VB's ugly.

I wanna learn C++ and make games. I know I don't need uni, but a degree will look better on paper.

Okay, my goals...

Get off my butt and get my drivers licence.
Finish university, and get a decent paying job with hours that won't kill me.
Find a girl I can share my life with.
Travel, hopefully to Europe or Japan.
Form a band, and maybe one day record an album.
Try and become relatively fluent in French and Japanese.

In the future, I hope to get a PhD when i'm able to, and maybe get a science degree as well.

Wow, and I thought I was aimless. :)

I wanna learn C++ and make games. I know I don't need uni, but a degree will look better on paper.
Yes, it will. And will help in lots of ways. And is good fun.
But that doesn't mean you can't start learning now! Visual C++ Express is free (so is GCC), a book to teach you won't cost too much (and there's always the interweb). Worth a download :)

Oh, and don't forget to get a summer holiday job at a games company whilst you're at uni. I did that, it's great fun (but hard work, and won't pay very much). Requires persistence, though. Lots of your "gimme a job!" emails will go unanswered.

Good luck :)

But that doesn't mean you can't start learning now! Visual C++ Express is free (so is GCC), a book to teach you won't cost too much (and there's always the interweb). Worth a download :)

We're doing Basic at school right now, and I'm going to get Visual Studio 2005, so I'll learn me some C++.

30 wickets for the cricket season.

Let me see here, ok:

Short term career, complete my third and final year on the JET Programme without killing my ninensei. I'd like to try and develop an exchange program with my junior high, or a junior high, back home that may eventually end up as a sister school relationship and an actual student exchange. I'd also like to develop an English resource web page that allows my kids access to pronunciation practice with video and wav files of various English sounds.

Mainly not killing my ninensei before they graduate though.

Long term career, depends on where my fiancée and I decide to settle. If in Japan, I'd like to use the year and a half in the US to gain my Master of TESOL and then get Cambridge certification to allow me to get a nice job at a university in Japan teaching English. If we stay in the US, or eventually even if we go to Japan first, I'd like to go in for and gain my Ph.D. in TESOL, focusing on the use of information technologies in teaching English as a foreign or second language. I would then either teach teachers how to do so, or take up my old advisor's advice and go run an International Students office at some university.

Relationship, Get married this summer, survive, somehow, being separated from my new wife almost immediately for another year. In two years time start our family.

Personal, Travel and learn. Always having fun.

NS, Get into the 10,000 posters club.

General, Not kill my ninensei before they graduate. That's the overriding goal right now. ;)

I'll get my BA in Political Sciences next year and then I'm going to Medical School.

I'm still aiming to get my PhD, even if it can't be right now. Other than that, a career about which I am passionate, and a contented personal life.

Power, the more the better.

A never ending goal with never ending benifits and consequences, it'll be an interesting life..

I'm going to smoke some weed, go to the pub and play poker and drink.

I like to pick achievable goals.

You guys should check out the 43 Things (http://www.43things.com/) web site. I find it really motivational. It's great to see other people working on the same things you are.

Right now I'm trying to get my debts paid off. That's the big one.

Return to college to do my A levels and then, hopefully become an officer cadet in the Merchant Navy.I have always wanted a career that involves travel.

What's your next step in life? What are you working on? What do you want to accomplish?Get a GF... win the Megabucks... survive the next day without breaking any major laws....

Get a GF... win the Megabucks... survive the next day without breaking any major laws....

Why worry about law breaking? Some of them were meant to be broken... I'd rather worry about not getting caught.

Well graduating would be nice, with a 2:2 (hell a 2:1 would be cool).

Therefore getting me accepted properly onto a PGCE course, Primary KS2 level, specialising in German.

Translation: Teacher Training, ages 5 - 11

After that, dunno. Earn money, see as many countries as possible, dedicate as much time as possible to my gf and martial arts. Live a good life :)

That'll do me nicely.

Why worry about law breaking? Some of them were meant to be broken... I'd rather worry about not getting caught.
ah.. but the law is only broken when you are caught.




Think about it. ;)

ah.. but the law is only broken when you are caught.




Think about it. ;)

A very Venitian attitude ;)
I've always admired that logic.

I'd like to get a job. A job where my education would be relevant. I wouldn't think that was too much to ask for? But nooo, when I get turned down because I'm the wrong gender (nothing about my merits or achievements) I get a bit annoyed. :mad:

Other than that, I don't know. I'm a bit lacking in goals myself at the moment, having recently completed my education. Saving the world and such would be fun, so I have hopes of one day becomming a judge.

What's your next step in life? What are you working on? What do you want to accomplish?

Same thing we do every day, Pinky. Try to take over the world!

My goals are to gain a steady income from previous work by 25. Then I can work on the things that I enjoy, that don't pay well. I want to write more, that is for certain, and do some acting. I also want to persue my interests in stage magic and psycological magic. Finally going back and doing every degree that exists is on my list :p

I dream to find a drug against aids so everybody can f... again without using this awful condoms.
It could be helpful

Anarchic revolution
preferrably the peacefull one, it requires less effort :p

Oh and if that doesn't work out, I'll become a full-time critic of the system.

I dream to find a drug against aids so everybody can f... again without using this awful condoms.
It could be helpful

*lol
Always working for the good of mankind, are you?
Or, in this case, womankind ;)

To finally sort my self out, face up to friends and family, and begin transitioning.

Although, that was my goal for last year, too. :(

*lol
Always working for the good of mankind, are you?
Or, in this case, womankind ;)
In both cases
can you imagine how it is "WITHOUT" ????

Oh God a horrible question. I've been struggling with the thought of joining the peace corp after I finish school. This possibly leading to a job working in a war zone with the UN or one of the other large rebuilding, security, and humanitarian organizations. I'm not sure what exactly I need to do to be able to qualify for such positions though.

If not anything like that perhaps law or publishing? Most likely grad school. But I dunno I gotta finish school and get out there a bit first.
Pretty much the same here. Once I finish my BA, Im gonna go into the Peace Corps(hopefully in Eastern Europe or central Asia, but maybe the middle east) After the the peace corps, I wanna teach English hopefully somewhere like China or Russia. Then I will most likely link up with a relief agency in Africa. After that, I may come back to the states, or I may never return:p

In both cases
can you imagine how it is "WITHOUT" ????

Right now, I'm having difficulties to imagine "with"...

What's your next step in life? What are you working on? What do you want to accomplish?

I am currently attending college and double majoring in philosophy and anthropology. After this I will attend a graduate school for anthropology and eventually attain a PhD; all the while continuing my studies of ahilosophy and various other subjects that interest me (such as psychology and religion/spirituality). After attaining my doctorate I will earn my living as a professor, focus in the field of ethnology, and synthesis my various areas of knowledge to write books. My ultimate goal is to design a new system of ideology; complete with a new form of morality, conceptualizing the world, and other various aspects of culture. Of course it will never be implented, but it will be a good lifes work and has the potential to ensuring for me a position among the great philosophers. Of course since I am still at the beginning stages of my plan much of this can change; and I have planned various contingencies. But that is my primary plan.

I am currently attending college and double majoring in philosophy and anthropology. After this I will attend a graduate school for anthropology and eventually attain a PhD; all the while continuing my studies of ahilosophy and various other subjects that interest me (such as psychology and religion/spirituality). After attaining my doctorate I will earn my living as a professor, focus in the field of ethnology, and synthesis my various areas of knowledge to write books. My ultimate goal is to design a new system of ideology; complete with a new form of morality, conceptualizing the world, and other various aspects of culture. Of course it will never be implented, but it will be a good lifes work and has the potential to ensuring for me a position among the great philosophers. Of course since I am still at the beginning stages of my plan much of this can change; and I have planned various contingencies. But that is my primary plan.

Wow. w00t! Let us know when you've solved all the world's problems. Post your theorems here. Who knows? We may agree with you and band together to change the world.

And, if not, at least it isn't another Chuck Norris thread.

Seriously, though, good luck! :D

My short term goals right now are to smoothly and successfully complete the sale of my current home and the purchase of the new home, while moving all our possessions.
get my two boys started in new school. Finish potty training my two year old daughter, whom hasnt dirtied a diaper in two full days now.

Then I can further consider the offer to manage an office and negotiate the compensation.

For the long term- keep my family and I happy and healthy, continue raising confident well adjusted children, and prepare them with education,advice and support to go out on their own in the world and do what pleases them most.

Thats the main stuff. There are a thousand little details. As for jus ttoday-I may shave at some point.

Get my driver's license.
Pay off my undergraduate loans.
Apply (and hopefully be accepted) to law school.
Pay off my law school loans.
Get through the day without falling asleep at my desk, so as not to be fired...

:p

In both cases
can you imagine how it is "WITHOUT" ????

Ok, now I can ;)

:fluffle:

Gat 5 A's at A level

Go to Oxford/ Durham / St. Andrews and read Shakespeare

one year translaion into corporate law

earn £150,000 per annum by 31

be nauseatingly rich by the age of 50

emigrate to Dubai or Monacon and laugh at the proletariat for the remainder of my life