Where did you see yourself 10 years ago?

I’m like most of you Girls – 10 yrs ago I was 16 getting to the end of my school life , Boys and Career were the main goals in my life back then (Mainly Boys). I thought that I’d become Qualified in my chosen field, Met the Man of my Dreams settle down ,get married, have a couple of Kids, be the typical Loving House Wife, and go back to work when the Kids went off to School. Well Well My My How Things Change 10 Yrs On !!!!. I did get those Qualifications for my chosen line of work which I still do. I Travelled a lot, and I have only Just Met the Man of My Dreams – who I am madly falling in Love With every day and I’m hoping that one day he will make me his Wife as I’m really looking forward to becoming a House Wife one day and raising a couple of Kids with my Man. Any way heres to Hoping. – I am hanging for the next 10 Yrs of my life to start .xx

10 years ago I was 13 and in year 8
Around this time exactly 10 years ago my parents decided to seperate and ultimately divorce, this year wasn’t great for me. I was obsessed with a boy (lets call him DC) and he eventually asked me out behind the school buildings, we went out for 5 days before he dumped me in a note in my diary LOL.
I was going to be a doctor, marry a tall dark and handsome man, and move into the melbourne CBD and have a awesome apartment all painted purple.

I’m 23 now (feel old typing that!), I don’t live in Frankston anymore (yay! lots of my friends do but never felt at home there), I live in a really nice Sydney suburb with my almost husband (tall, dark hair, handsome and he wears glasses! wooo!), getting married in 6 weeks, been to uni a few times and going to start again in June doing Primary Teaching, Loving life!

33 – Hope to have 2-3 kids, be a fully qualified teacher, maybe own our own house (if nothing else have a lot of debt gone), and hopefully just as happy as G and I are now!

10 years ago I was 15 and in year 10.
I thought i was going to get into university straight away, meet the love of my life after uni (preferably a dark handsome Mediterranean man), marry around 25 and live overseas.

I am 25 now, almost finished my degree, which i started at 21. Married that dark handsome mediterranean man at 25 this year =)
Have not moved overseas- maybe one day you never know !

35- i hope to have 2 children by then. hopefully have lived overseas, have a successful career and live in my dream family home

10 years ago I was 9. I had a boyfriend who I thought I was going to marry and had named our three children. I was in the ‘cool group’ where sat on the oval, talked boybands, what we were wearing to the next school disco, tanning and shaving. I hated it. All I wanted to do was play tiggy, dig for bugs, make tunnels and carve objects out of soft wood on the pavement. Seriously, what 9 year old needs to shave?

At 19 I thought I would have my drivers licence, be at uni studying law and engaged. At the moment i’ve only done 2 hrs on my learners licence, i’m single and studying environmental science/marine biology at uni. I studied forensics last year, but changed courses.

At 29 I hope to be married. I will have children, adopted or biological, married or unmarried. I will have my full licence!!! I want to be well travelled and speak a second language. I’m not sure where I want to be job wise, i used to have it all planned out. Now I just take it as it comes.

this is so well written and nicely summed up!!
kudos to u for the mature views!

10 years ago I was 9. I had a boyfriend who I thought I was going to marry and had named our three children. I was in the ‘cool group’ where sat on the oval, talked boybands, what we were wearing to the next school disco, tanning and shaving. I hated it. All I wanted to do was play tiggy, dig for bugs, make tunnels and carve objects out of soft wood on the pavement. Seriously, what 9 year old needs to shave?

At 19 I thought I would have my drivers licence, be at uni studying law and engaged. At the moment i’ve only done 2 hrs on my learners licence, i’m single and studying environmental science/marine biology at uni. I studied forensics last year, but changed courses.

At 29 I hope to be married. I will have children, adopted or biological, married or unmarried. I will have my full licence!!! I want to be well travelled and speak a second language. I’m not sure where I want to be job wise, i used to have it all planned out. Now I just take it as it comes.

wow 10 yrs ago i was 15, still at school, flirting with boys, beginning to experiment with all things intriuging. i guess i dreamed of getting married and having children and having a good job. Now i hav a great job nursing and a wonderful BF however children nor marriage r not in the picture.
10yrs from now i thibnk i could see myself with a child, living coastal hopefully with my current BF… but i say llive each day as its ur last!!

Good idea for a thread1!
and wow my answers will be all over the place !!

10 yrs ago – i was 21, ive been in australia for about a yr, i moved on my own from the philippines, to come and study.
i had a slow start getting settled, and i lived in 2 places, both with roomies, until at 1yr in, i got my own place. i started at uni, and its also aroudn the time i started going a lot more ‘way out’ with my length of nails and hair lol

At the time i guess i was thinking ill move to aus, stay for a few ys for study, then go back to asia (thailand or phils or maybe malaysia).. but i didnt. i kept here coz i love it and makde suc ha gr8 lil life for myself. i also would not have assumed id still have, or be able to maitain the more out there physical look, esp for sustainable life/career. so given that ive been on a slow path of a gradual lifestyle buildin on what i wstarted then, its not so far or dif thna things id wnatd or hoped for. and im prob WAY better off than i could be if i stayed or returned to asia.

as for 10 yrs from now?? geez thats hard.. i think i could see myself getting PR or citizen, to stay and be in aus, if i can make a really good long term life here,.., just in more of the same as i live now, with climbing to higher places of income, work, home etc. Not a huge amount of the way i am or live is something if try 2 change actually.,. im already ver happy. but im always open to new chances and plans.

looking fwd to hearing feedback, or other ppls reflections 🙂

My dad always has high expectations for me and my brother to do well and so far my brother has a house, owns two cars and works for my dad in the food industry and is financially well off!

I feel quite pressured to not let the family down and also myself down so Hopefully in 10 years time I will be climbing the ladders of the buisness intellectual world, having a baby and Have my own house (most importantly)!!

10 years ago I wanted to be a teacher but after completing high school about 3 years ago. That thought never came across my mind again!

I had commenced a huge change in my life. Went back to uni to become a lawyer but sacrificed a lot to do so – a successful career and my own home. Had to let it all go in order to have some finances to get through uni (my second time) even though I received a bursary that paid half my fees. Struggled financially until I finished law (gained a Masters degree) and loved every minute of my studies. Don’t regret any of it as it was my decision, not influenced by anyone else.

1. I was 13 and in my 1st year of High School in Wellington. I had made some new friends and was enjoying it more than primary school because in my last year I was bullied.
2. I always knew I was going to graduate university, so I was right about that part. When I was younger I used to think or hope I’d be a young mum, but that’s sooo not going to happen and I’ve really changed my opinion on that.
3. 33 – I really hope I have a good career, am happy, hopefully married with at least 1 child. It would be a bonus having my own house, or at least living somewhere I really like. I don’t think I’ll still be in Perth by then, but you never do know.