How has the last 10 years gone for you?

[Fishbait]

Went from working seven days a week (my choice) to having some idiot pull out in front of me one snowy night & twisting my ankle, job ended. Followed few months later by landlord getting all but one of his properties taken off of him for not paying his mortgage. Within one hour of being told this at "a hearing" at court, I was homeless.
Now, got roof over my head, keeping busy whilst trying to find work in a dead area, but things must go on
*whistles at life*

 

[RoboCod]

The majority of it has been pure hell on earth. However, I'm alive, I have good friends, a home and an interesting job, so you have to look on the bright side and all

 

[wedrum]

Bought a house had a few kids started my own business no real dramas along the way , still skint but more to life than money.
No idea for the next 10.

 

[nitram100]

Pretty good, was depressed for the first 2 years and almost suicidal as I lost my best friend to cancer, couldn't find a job etc and was in a bad way. So 7 years ago, picked myself up and retrained as a Registered Nurse, been a Nurse for 5 years and in a great relationship with a Spanish Nurse and we're emigrating to Australia next year.

 

[Efour]

Moved from London to a tiny town in the arse end of nowhere.
Changed career from something reasonabley comfortable to a "dead end" service job.
Met the lady I'm probably going to end up married to.
Overall though, I wouldn't change it for anything.
No clue how the next ten will work out.
Probably poorer, colder and ...

 

[MookJong]

Living at home
Met my girlfriend
Renovated a flat and moved in
Girlfriend moved in
We moved out and got a mortgage on a house
Got engaged
Got married
Spent a fortune on the house, complete new roof, new bathroom, news front door, hall / landing windows.

That is about it apart from going on holiday, both of us are in the same jobs.

 

[Rids]

Pretty much a train wreck that I'm slowly crawling out the other side of.

 

[mid_gen]

Pretty good, climbed up the ladder in investment banking IT which took me to Hong Kong for a few years earning great money. Then got burnt out/fed up with it, sacked it off and moved to Germany with the new gf.

Decided to get into the games industry and now here I am a gameplay programmer working on AAA titles a few years later.

Plenty of stuff I'd have done different but no regrets, had a fun decade and seen a lot of the world!

 

[krooton]

2007 - Ended toxic relationship, got in to another one (unknowingly)
2008 - Proposed, she accepted, then changed her mind a few months later (after confessing to her love to her long term ex, who told her to **** off). Ran the rest of the year single and had a blast. Same old same old in terms of job.
2009 - Got in to new relationship with lovely lady. No change in job. Move in to house-share with friend.
2010 - Bought flat with lovely lady. Very happy in relationship. No change in job. Medical emergency whilst abroad.
2011 - Pleasant enough, nothing really noteworthy.
2012 - Got a kickass cat. Then also got a new job at a new company with a 25% pay increase.
2013 - Start to concerns about relationship as I realise that I do no want children. Spend a year in couple's counselling.
2014 - Counselling confirms that we are not going to work, and we have an amicable, if sad, break up. Get a new role, 10% pay rise. Back to house-sharing.
2015 - Start dating again, meet a great lady, but we agree that we don't have a long-term future (the kids thing) and set a realtinship deadline for the end of the year. I realise that I am totally in love with her at the end of the year. She realises the same after I profess this. We watch much anime together, and take an amazing Caribbean cruise holiday.
2016 - Move in to her flat, and generally be the happiest I have ever been. Realise that I do want kids, it's just that my ex wasn't right for me.
2017 - Get engaged. Get promotion. Plan wedding.

All in all, a cracking decade, not without it's ups and downs, with an overall income upgrade of 55%, and a relationship upgrade of over 9000!

 

[Rroff]

Thread reminds me - roughly 10 years ago I interviewed for a job in a company that was in the process of moving into Tower 42 but stuff came up and I didn't go through with it - couple of years later several of the employees including the person in the position I'd applied for went down for massive insurance fraud - things could have worked out very differently - not that I'd have taken part in anything like that myself.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Thread reminds me - roughly 10 years ago I interviewed for a job in a company that was in the process of moving into Tower 42 but stuff came up and I didn't go through with it - couple of years later several of the employees including the person in the position I'd applied for went down for massive insurance fraud - things could have worked out very differently - not that I'd have taken part in anything like that myself.

Close friend of mine at the time went into business with 2 friends from his business degree at uni, it took off rapidly and he was earning great money within a few years, he left to do his own thing and a year later both of them were jailed for 3 years for something to do with identity fraud.

 

[Rroff]

Close friend of mine at the time went into business with 2 friends from his business degree at uni, it took off rapidly and he was earning great money within a few years, he left to do his own thing and a year later both of them were jailed for 3 years for something to do with identity fraud.

One way or another getting into business with friends seems to often end badly.

 

[something daft already!!]

It feels like I am in exactly the same place I was 10 years ago but I'm ten years older. I have a similar job and a similar if slightly higher wage. I have lost a job, found another and been promoted. I'm still single(ish) and wanting to stay that way.

 

[Ayahuasca]

One way or another getting into business with friends seems to often end badly.

They say you make your own luck but I don't think I know anyone even close to the luck he had, he banked into 6 figures in under 3 years before leaving, had ridiculous luck in the casino and sports betting and always seemed to avoid situations that would have had a negative effect on his life, although the latter might actually have been his own doing as whilst not neccesarily that intelligent he was very "street smart".

 

[Flubble]

it went very well until we had new managers in january this year who done nothing but make everything harder than it should be, then 3 months ago i quit my job lol, if i'm running around doing the job of 5 people (people leaving and not being replaced and guess who picked up all their work) being expected to finish the work the same then i want 5x salary!

i'm happy now though lol

 

[iamtheoneneo]

10 years ago I was in a dirty 6 person house share, with a fit but horrendous girlfriend earning £18k a year in a bitchy dire job
Im now married to a women thats right for me with a kid, 5 bed house, decent pay , pretty decent job, overcome depression (As well as you can do) and generally ok.

A good ten years overall, but yeh mistakes along the way, some regrets, some anger. But you live and learn.
As long as your motivated to always improve in any small way life will find a way of giving you riches.

 

[MooMoo444]

It feels like I am in exactly the same place I was 10 years ago but I'm ten years older.

Pretty much me. No plans on settling down for good yet.

 

[Daaaavvveee]

10 years ago I would have just started uni.......working at McDonalds to pay for my alcohol while studying.
Was a great time, but glad its all over now.

Fast forward to now,

I have a good job, engaged, nice big house and generally content with life

Still enjoying the lads holidays abroad to re-live some of the uni days however!

 

[grudas]

From 16 to 26?

Way too much..

• Finished college
• Worked in retail for a year, realised how stupid that was
• Started an apprenticeship before I was too old
  
• Got a perm job after that..
• Left house with my brother on 15k yr in London, still no idea how I survived and still managed to save ?
  
• Worked at the company for 4.5 years
• Left..
  
• Started working in another company
• Now moved out of London to west Sussex with my girlfriend..

Not sure what my future holds but if brexit doesn't turn out to be the disaster that it's looking like then hopefully buy a house here in UK and continue climbing up the ladder..

If it does turn out to be a disaster then I'll be looking for a new place to relocate to, with my girlfriend.

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

I the last 10 years i have:
Been with the same fantastic lady
Had 2 kids
Been working in IT
Had 3 jobs
Bought a house
Had about 10 cars
Moved about 5 times
Got a dog

I would say it has been the best and most important ten years of my life, and I have enjoyed it massively.

Sure, you have ups and downs, but that's life.