What are your major life goals?

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I'm at a point in life where I've lost track of my goals. I've become dissillusioned. So, help me out by listing your major life goals, and maybe some that you've accomplished and how you accomplished them.

My goals :
graduate college
make enough money to comfortably support kids
become a professional level musician
inspire passion in others
get a girlfriend that identifies with my dreams
have kids

Basically, those are the things that I want in life. I guess I need to figure out how I'm going to accomplish those things.

So...what are your goals?
 
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Lifer
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I have no goals to accomplish. My only goal is to live my life, and take it as it comes. No sense in getting caught up in the future.
 
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To attain the rank of Lifer on ATOT. ;)

One post closer to glory...
 
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nihil

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in a nutshell: to be sucessful, happy, work to my full potential, and find love.
 
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<< To attain the rank of Lifer on ATOT. ;)

One post closer to glory... >>

 
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dionx

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marry my girlfriend, kids, family, stability. simple down to earth happiness. being rich not really a major life goal as long as i'm happy and in love. but it would be nice not to worry about money at all.
 
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finish up my degree in MIS and get my teaching degree in english

edit:and the obligatory do two girls at once of course (perferably unrelated to my teaching career....)
 
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My wife (GrimmX) graduates from my 1994 alma mater in 10 days. I have two children aged 8 and 10. A lady just accepted my offer on her house yesterday. So I'm doing pretty good.

I think for me there is a big question mark in my life concerning what I'll be doing a year from now. I'm working towards my Professional Engineers license, and I should be ready to test for it in October of this year, but I've had that hope crushed no less than 3 times in the last 18 months. Maybe 4th times a charm, this time. Anyway, once I have obtained my P.E. license, I don't know what I want to do next. It's one of those things where I'm so close, I may as well get the credential, even though in my heart I know that I don't think I'm going to continue with civil engineering much longer. Frankly I find it boring.

Hence the question mark. I've entertained ideas of the military, law school, property developer, corporate manager, outside sales for some technology manufacturer, research in Antarctica.... The rule of thumb is find out what you would do for free and try to get a paying job in that area (*legal* paying job).
 
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Become "All-Powerful Ruler of the World", making the masses quiver before me , and crush those who oppose me....


but until then, I want to finish my bachelor's in CS, so I can design and program one stinking, lousy enjoyable game.

oh, and I want to own a lamborghini :D
 
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NikPreviousAcct

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These are short term:

1) full time job (accomplished)
2) go back to college
3) move out
4) repair damaged relationships / advance current ones

nik
 
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joohang

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Within the next 5 years:
1) Become an MSF master trainer
2) Work as a trainer of the Core protocols
3) Adopt the Core to my life and to my work to the fullest
4) Study UML and be proficient in enterprise architecture
5) Enhance my understanding of OOP, .NET
6) Obtain MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA and MCSD.NET followed by MCT
7) Maybe graduate with an Asian Studies degree, but it's one of my lower priorities. :)

After this 5-year initial phase:
1) Teach MSF and the Core to major corporations.
2) Perhaps work at Microsoft for a while. (and play pranks on Ameesh once in a while. ;))
3) Speak at major conferences.
4) Earn enough bucks to support myself, my family, buy myself the latest hardware toys to play with, etc.
5) Work as a software architect/developer for the company's internal projects.
6) Write some books on project/team management, best practices, etc.

When I'm in the mid-40s:
1) "Retire"
2) Have enough savings to travel to every college with renowned scholars in East Asian history/culture/religious studies.
3) Finish my B.A. if I haven't done so already. Get an M.A. and Ph.D.
4) Work as a historian.
5) Lead a team of historians and adopt MSF and the Core. :)
6) Write a book on East Asian history/diplomacy/culture.

I don't have any definite goals for women/relationships/marriage, as they don't depend on my goals. :) Not to mention that if I have goals, it leads to expectations of my future significant other, which only calls for trouble.
 
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Lifer
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Why do people work so hard so they DONT have to work so hard?

If it was good enough for people in the dark ages, its good enough for us now.
 
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