Where did you see yourself 5 years ago?

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iamdjdz

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And where are you now?
Are you as happy/motivated/successful as you wanted?
Are you still en-route to your goals?
Or are you in a totally different place than you thought you'd be?
Overall how do you feel now?

5 Years ago I thought that I would be married to a girl who I'd been with for 3 years prior to that. I was planning to try to get into air traffic control and I had decent exam grades, sort of floating through uni but was never that bothered as long as I passed.

Now, I have long since broken up with said girl and despite not wanting to bother with women for a long time I am now engaged to a lovely girl who has been 100% supportive and helpful to me. I got into a bit of trouble and ended up failing the security check after being accepted to start with NATS studying ATC and lost a whole load of motivation and confidence. On the plus side I have lost 2 stone and got fitter and stopped smoking and drinking. I feel a lot better in myself, more content and happy in general. Although I am stuck (hopefully temporarily) in a job that I don't enjoy and find hard to bother with but that gets me money (although not enough to save both for the wedding, married life and a new rig lol). I have started an Open University Computing and IT BSc and am getting really good results already and finding it interesting and challenging. Overall whilst I am nowhere near what I thought I'd be 5 years ago, but I hope I'm on track to an even better place within the next 5 but who knows..
 
Lol it's not that bad, just a general outlook, mine's detailed enough I suppose but overall is it the same, better or worse or just different?
 
5 years ago I set the target of becoming like Jimmy Savile, he was my idol.

Today I'm distraught and broken, but I achieved what he achieved.

My prison stretch starts in 14 days.
 
5 years ago I was about to ask my current GF out for the first time and was in the last year of Uni. I think I have done alright career wise but thought I would earn a bit more, however the financial crash had not happened at that point!
 
5 years ago I was hoping to move back to London and maybe getting a half decent buying job. I now live in London in a Procurement Management job so all's good there :)

Love life still sucks though :(
 
Five years ago I had made the decision, to hell with it all and them all, I am going to marry that girl.
I did, and everything pretty much worked out better than expected.
Things are great, pretty much to plan, bigger house, stable, job solid, less savings than I had hoped for, expenditure a bit higher than I'd like, but it all evens out.

Five years from now, child at school, expect to still live here, car will have changed, job likely the same, unless lotto comes up. Frankly not much will have changed bar evolution of our life around the childs needs.
 
I was just starting my flying career, about to join Ryanair. I'm happy with how my career has gone so far and am happy with where I am. Fingers crossed for the future.
 
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