NationStates Jolt Archive

do you have one? what is it? have you already fulfilled it? do you have lots of them?

i've been wondering about my own recently. sometimes i think i'd be quite happy working in the same bar forever as long as i have my friends, music, books, car and computer but at the same time i think i can achieve much more than this.

so at the moment my ambition is either: to be a mechanic for a WRC team, or, to be an archaeologist specialising in the first state-level societies of Mesopotamia, or to be a jobbing archaeological excavator if i can't be bothered doing a further degree.

Short term: graduate, and complete a post-graduate diploma.
Medium term: Marry my girlfriend.
Long term: Own and run a successful record shop.
Very long term: Die.

long term: take over the world :)
short term: graduate high school and then go to college :)

Well, one of my ambitions was to leave Germany and try living somewhere else. I accomplished that 3 years ago.

My next ambition is to stop being a contractor and either get a permanent job at the company I work for right now, or else maybe to get back into my original profession and start in a library somewhere here.

In private life, I'm trying to rebuilt a circle of friends. I had one when I first came here, but most of the people left, some of the people are not on speaking terms any more, etc., and I ended up pretty isolated.

I have ambitions of various degrees. Some accomplished, some not, some not possible.

Get my degree-done (finally)
Get an advanced degree-Done(in the most technical manner possible.)
Work in field - Done, but still shakey.
Get a page on IMDb - Done
Have anyone but me care about the above-pending. The number of single credit IMDb entries are vast.
Make my living off of what comes from my head-Still not there.

long term: take over the world :)
short term: graduate high school and then go to college :)
What qualifications do you need to take over the world?

Study at Oxford University, maybe.
Longer term: who knows? :confused:

What qualifications do you need to take over the world?
none :) but i want to get out of college befor i start. i guess its possibble there are qualifications for taking over the world...i'll let you know what the are when i find out :p

I've got a personal ambition - to get married and to have a family. On that one, I'm pretty much there (married, kid on the way).

I've also got a professional/academic goal - to get my PhD in something, either medical imaging or cosmology (haven't quite decided yet), and make my way into the big, bad world of research from there. As I've already gotten my honours degree in physics, I'm pretty much on schedule for that one too!

My short term ambition is to write a novel
My long term ambition is to reach master-level at chess.

I don't have career ambitions. I hope I never do, either; by the time I care about my job, it'll mean I have nothing more interesting in my life.

Short term: being able to look at myself in the mirror and be alright with what I see.
Medium/long term: ditto.

Mission accomplished.

My short term ambition is to write a novel
My long term ambition is to reach master-level at chess.

I don't have career ambitions. I hope I never do, either; by the time I care about my job, it'll mean I have nothing more interesting in my life.
Damn. I knew there was something I missed. I've already started writing my novel. And I've already started playing chess...

none :) but i want to get out of college befor i start. i guess its possibble there are qualifications for taking over the world...i'll let you know what the are when i find out :p
When you do, remember me. Can I have a sinecure in your world order, please?

When you do, remember me. Can I have a sinecure in your world order, please?

maby...i have to think about it :)

short term: become a Royal Marine

short term-long term: meet someone amazing who I can spend he rest of my life with

short-long term: stay in contact with my friends at school

Medium term: have kids and be a good father

Short-Long term: climb the ranks hopefully to General

long term: die heroically

Short term: (one to two years)
get my 21st birthday celebrations sorted in the next month... causing me stress (but anything's better than last year when the only people to even remark on my birthday were my parents and people on this forum...)
spend more time with glitziness and go on holiday with her sometime.
show her how much i love her somehow and do whatever i can to keep us going strong as long as i can (i ain't letting her go! :D)
get back into college (UK 6th form college that is)

Medium term: (two to five years)
get a couple more a-levels (maths), move out of parents' place, get life sorted, go to uni to study architecture, become a conceptual/design architect, live with glitz :)
get more photography kit and take more and a greater range of photos, as well as get good at playing drums (and play in a band for fun... preferably a jazz band! woo :D)
[edit: lose weight and get laser eye surgery]

Long term: (five-to-ten years plus)
raise a family as well as i can, have kids, have a nice house by the beach somewhere warm (with mountains in the background!), hold down that job i enjoy and grow old with my loving wife. not much really - just some peace and quiet and stability. some would call it boring but my parents had a pretty "interesting" time while i was growing up and i'd much rather things be simple and dependable.
travel a lot and see much of the world
get some of my photos either printed or exhibited in some fashion.
finish writing my novel. and in real fantasy-land ambition, turn it into a movie :D

edit:

Get a page on IMDb - Done
ooh do share! :D


In private life, I'm trying to rebuilt a circle of friends. I had one when I first came here, but most of the people left, some of the people are not on speaking terms any more, etc., and I ended up pretty isolated.
i hear that :(
add that to my list too :)

hehe.. 50/50 on takeing over the world or getting a nice quiet job in a bookshop somewhere. :p

.... and sorting out the horribly messed up pile of stupidity that is the NZ beurocracy. [includeing elected MPs, the education system, etc... it goes beyond the government it's self.]... that would be nice...

eat lots of tasty food...

win the Austian War [PT rp threads :D it's pretty much bound to happen. it's only really a question of if my guys survive the process or not.]

weaken the Han [same RP]

make money selling the various games i have created/am creating

the list goes on... mostly near the "eat tasty food" and "take of the world" ends of the spectrum though :p