The next 5 years

[WebLady]

Once the wedding is over (or maybe it already is) and life is back to normal; what are your plans? Where do you want to be in your life in the next 5 years?

[WebLady]

Me; DH and I have been married going on 3 years (this coming April), so it has been a while for us ;)

But anyway, our plans are to finish the remodel on our house (finally after 5+ yrs here) and fence in the back yard (hopefully soon) and sell the house in the next couple of years.

Then we plan to buy some land and build a house closer to where he works. I am excited about this, but it will be about an hour or so away from most of our friends and family.

Other than that, we just plan to pay off some debt.

[Danielle9608]

Well married ... of course. Finish home improvement projects on our townhouse. Possibly be selling to buy a bigger place. Make senior designer. Start a family.

[HisMuse]

Hmmmm...

A relationship with Erik's daughter.
Live closer to Erik's work.
Me have a job closer to this area.
One step closer to Erik having his own business.
Less debt.

[SerendipityCrafts]

Hmmmm in 5 years .....

We want our debt load to be considerably less
We want to be back in a house (we just aren't quite sure where we want to be quite yet)
We want a slower pace of life - so that we have some time for ourselves to get back to what is important to us
We want to be at the tail end of helping our kids with college funding
I want to be making enough money to run my biz full time without adding extra strain on DH

[Nekochanpurr]

I want to find a better paying job... and or find a way back into college.. And i want to hopefully get a house, maybe pop out a kid or two. Don't really want to think that far ahead. Don't want to get my hopes up for something that may not be possible. -.-

[uptowngirl]

In the next 5 years...

We want to remodel the kitchen and sell our house
Move closer to my family (Vermont)
Start a family of our own
Patrick starting and working full time in his own business
Go to Disneyland. Seriously we keep intending to go but then plan different vacations instead! We'll get to it one of these years! :)

[shawnsgirl]

Well, we've only been married what 4 months?? It seems rather longer though..lol..j/k...

We have quite a few plans all laid out..Hopefully everything goes that way!

First, in the fall I'm going back to school full time. In august I will finish my bachelors degree is Social Work. Then I go two years for my RN.

After I pass my boards I will go back working full time! Hopefully, doing home health or hospice..But who knows...Maybe the baby fever will get the best of me and I'll be doing OBY/GYN and work in Labor and Delivery!! I can't wait for that clinical my second year!!

Anyhow, after that's completed in two years we'll be buying a house. As soon as we're moved in..I'm talking that very day we're TTC!!!!LO Ok maybe not that soon but hey we'll see!

After I get settled and back to work full time after having the baby DH is going to get his teaching certificate possible...But we'll see...

So...hmm is that five years?? Close enough I guess..

[EarlyBird]

Well once we are married (a yr and a half away mind you) We are looking into selling this home (if the market is right) and buying a bigger place OR starting a family (Unfortunatley, the market will decide what happens with this--- whe we buy a bigger place i dont want to have a newborn or be pregnant cuz i like working on the houses so if we move right away we wont start a family until after we are all done with renovations at the new place.. if we decide not to sell or buy a new place we wont consider moving until the baby is AT LEAST a yr old. (our place will be okay for a baby, just want a bit bigger so all the kids can grow up in the same house one day)
Then- Think i will go back to school (although i may be doing this even before the wedding)
Also, want to have less debt.

:)

[Dani]

We will be married in May of 08..I can see us...
both looking for new jobs.
I would love to move out towards the country and have life slow down a bit.
Personally, I would LOVE to run a golden retriever rescue..(but would need the space)
Get out of debt (my credit card..which I am hoping to get rid of next January with my bonus from work)
Just enjoying life with my husband and pooches.
Of course traveling and visting family as well.

[ChibiAiChan]

CREEPY I just started this and this commercial about birth control came up talking about the next 5 years! Okay, anyways...

HOPEFULLY, if all goes as planned....

-get a house
-Sean going to school to be an engineer (i hope i hope!)
-Start my own in-home child care
-have some babies!

that is, if all works out =) Life does not always work the way you want it to...

[PGDesigns]

We won't be married for a while, but we're hoping to

-Buy a house, although we're not sure where we want to live...
-Run our own business
-Run a small rescue (for various dog breeds)
-Have at least half of our student loans paid off
-More traveling (especially adventure trips with kayaking and such)

[Whitewater]

My 5 year plan is pretty simple -- although 5 years after I get married I'll be 40! So that changes things too, somewhat.

I want to (over the next 5 years):

Get married
Stay married
Buy a home
Reduce my debt (ahhh, student loans) and fix my credit
Join Equity (I'll also accept simply making enough money in my career that I have a more-or-less steady income)
Persuade my best friend to move back home after she finishes her PhD.


Whitewater

[TangoWedding]

Fence in the back yard so we can get another dog. :frogg:
FH will finish school next year, so hopefully we can find him a great job where he doesn't have to work nights like he does now.
Significantly reduce my student loan debt ($15,000...ouch!)
Get me a new car
Try not to get knocked up. :bblol:

[frenchie]

In Feb of 2013 aka 5 years after our wedding, I see us
* him working on his doctorate (but getting paid to do so)
* me working in some company doing computer science or maybe webdesign or translation hehe I'm sooo indecisive about this
* TTC or just barely pregnant
* Probably still in this same city or at least still in France
* Looking into buying an apartment or even a house (hoping for a house hehe!!)

[katieandalex]

-Back to school in the states or move to Canada
-Own a newer home
-Less debt

[august8bride]

In five years:

I don't really know. Life is kinda up in the air for us right now. I'm graduating in may and so it really depends on the job I find. I know for sure things I don't want in 5 years is a baby other than that I say life bring it on.

[lizardbnorton]

In five years I want to have a job I like, preferably running or starting to run the comedy club that Robert and I want to open. Hopefully we will have 1 or 2 kids already. I want to have a home, not someplace we are renting.

Whatever I am doing or wherever I am I just want to be happy and with Robert.

[WBandMe]

Hmm, I thought I already replied here. Anyway, for us in five years we see:

TTC, whenever I get pregnant I'll stop working, and depending on the market either buying a house then or waiting until our firstborn is maybe 2 (when we'll start TTC for #2)...hopefully by then he'll have moved up pretty high at his job.....

We talk about this a lot it's just really hard to have it nailed down like a wedding date is, lol.

[deerebride]

Well let me see...if you would of asked me this question 2 weeks ago I would have a different answer for you.

I consider myself a avid planner, but something things don't work out the way we plan. I just found out that I am pregnant, so that will change some of these plans. But this is where I would like to be

Paying off students loans (40,000) ouch
Finishing my master in guidance and counseling
Working at a school closer to home
Find some friends in our small town that are more like me
Having a happy healthy marriage and BABY of course

[Nekochanpurr]

Congratulations, deerebride!! :)

[Always&Forever]

Guess I missed the first round of this post..


FH and I graduate May '09
FH attend law school (No clue where. We've searched coast to coast)
I want to get my Masters in Special Education shortly after graduation
Pay off student loans
Own a house
Begin a family in the latter end of the 5-year mark
Rejoice in the healthiness of our parents

[NurseLau84]

I know this is old, but I thought it was a cool question, so here goes..
In 5 years DH and I will be almost 29...woah that sounds weird!

-He will have his masters in engineering....I hope...ever since he got the bachelor's he's been just fine with being done with school :chimp:
-I will be at least starting my masters in nursing (either FNP, NNP, or WHNP)
-DH's specific request: Condo sells in 2011, use equity to purchase a single family home; target price under $500k (we live in New England, it's mucho expensive here :irked:)
-No kids, hopefully
-Possibly a third dog
-Traveling more than we do now
-Overall, just continue having success in our lives and being happy.

[Moon.Dust.]

ok in 5 years I'll be 34...

So there should be a baby in there at some point. Hopefully a house. Hopefully the economy's better!

I'd like to still be at my job, but maybe as part of admin as well. And a hefty pay raise. Also my bachelor's degree -hopefully my Master's as well.

I'd like to see hubby being able to write more -getting published.

Our life together -probably more of the same.

[mitch]

Oooh i love "5 Year Plans" We did one when We first got together (6 Years ago) and everything has been ticked off so far. :winktongue:

For the next 5 years?

DH to be a Site Agent in the City of London.

At the moment He drives Diggers locating Gas and Water Pipes. Electric Cables, Fibre Optics and CCTV. He loves His job. But heading towards 40 He feels now is the time for promotion instead of digging around in holes covered in Mud and Rats Pee. :bbeek:
He has been offered the Position when one comes up. The Comapny He contracts to is having a Major Re-shuffle and hopefully by Easter He'll be promoted. :)

Me to be Head Housekeeper in a Hotel.

At the moment i'm just a Chamber Maid. I have the Qualifications to do the job. Infact i'm more Qualified than My own Boss. :whyme: But like DH, i believe in working up from the bottom instead of jumping in at the top. You can't expect Your Staff to clean a toilet with a Toothbrush if You're not prepared to do it Yourself first.

Then the mundane things of Paying off Debt. Hopefully getting the chance to buy a House. Or maybe buy the one We rent off the Landlord.

In 5 Years time all of DH's Daughters will have left School. So hopefully see them in jobs they enjoy. And happy with their lives.

No Children of My own. Maybe another Cat LOL.

And who knows, crazy thing happen. I might even get My book Published!!!

[caligal85]

Gosh five years. Well, we'll probably be trying for our first child, hopefully be in the same state :), California or back in the Midwest, a new car, a good physical living situation, FH hopefully not smoking, and steady jobs for both of us.

[Ginger]

We've been married one year. Once I recover from these brain surgeries (should be 100% in a year), we want to redo the house and possibly sell. Whatever the market dictates. Really, as long as we're happy and healthy I don't care where we are or what our lives hold. We've had a rough first year (with my brain tumor and all of its complications, including 2nd brain surgery), that I now realize what's important in life.

[gwenshack]

Five years?

Well, we'll both be 36. If all goes according to plan he'll have finished law school, passed the bar, and will have a job.
In five years we're hoping to get out of my condo, that I bought assuming I was going to be a happy single person for a long time. (Obviously five years ago I was not anticipating THIS happening in five years...ah the irony of this post.)
So hopefully in five years we'll be able to get a house.
In five years I think FH wants kids, but that's still something we're talking about, since I'm a little iffy on that.
Hopefully in five years we'll have worked out any kinks that may have come up since we got married and we'll be hanging out like an old married couple who still likes to have fun. Hopefully we'll have figured out to balance time with our respective families during the holidays.
Hopefully he'll have found the location of the laundry basket. :)

[Tadswife]

Me and dh have been married for about 2 1/2 years..
in fiveyears I will be 36, dh will be 48 OUCH!
-I see my self as a nurse ( hopefully in an emergancy room nurse)
- dh will prepare for retirement
- our house will be closer to being paid off
- hopefully we'll be healthy and happy together with no children

thats about it.. gosh were boring...:snide:

[caligal85]

OMG I forgot to mention "married!" Just a minor oversight. ;)

[MrsGrady08]

HMMM 5 years...

-I will (should. it seems like its been forever) have my B.S. in Biology.
So I want to have a better job. still not sure what but something in health care or research.
-DH will hopefully have a better job
-we want to do some more traveling
-remodeling the house and maybe selling it to MAYBE move out of state (Im still not 100% on this one)
-starting a family
-and of course paying off debt:irked:

[Katie-ryn]

In 5 years we will have just celebrated our 3 year anniversary, and coming up on our 10th anniversary of being together. He will be 29 and I will be 27.

Hopefully I'm working as a graphic designer in a bigger city. He's planning on going back to school to be a high school history teacher in 2010 (hopefully starting a couple days after our wedding... eek!). He should be half way through his 3rd year of 5 (or maybe 4, depending on how many of his credits transfer). We will be starting to think about having a family. I want this now, but I want him to be closer to finishing school before bringing children into the relationship. I don't want him feeling he has to be bringing in money to support our child, when he should be concentrating on school. We will have a much better future if he finishes school compared to him working at Staples the rest of his life... My student loans should be close to being paid off, not so much for his...

[NOTKT]

Wow, 10 years at 19 and 17, that's great!

We want to be out of our current house, I mean OUT. We also want to start a family after we leave the house. DH wants to be a fighter pilot, he's almost there! I want to be debt free or close!

[Scrwballsgrl]

HMMM In five years? Well we're not married yet but I can still contribute to the thread right?

In five years; I hope to be a little further along responsibility wise at my job. And that Fh will be in a satisfying one. I hope we've gotten a house, and aren't living in an apartment anymore. And I hope we've started/starting a family.

[TwoPeasinAPod]

1. Me: Finish school.
2. FH: Will be home from his two year deployment! :)
3. We'll get married.
4. Get a puppy.

[sandy03]

In five years...

Be looking forward to our 5th anniversary!

I will have completed my M.Div and should be ordained as an Elder in Full Connection with the United Methodist Church. I also hope I have completed my CPE residency, although that is not a requirement.

Jeff should at least be working on his Bachelor's degree in either Engineering or Technical Education (if he hasn't finished it by then, which I would really love to see him do!) Hopefully he'll still be employed as a draftsman and enjoying the people he works with.

Hopefully we'll have our first child (or at least I'll be pregnant!) If I'm not already on personal leave, I'll be gearing up for it!

If we have any debt by that point, it should just be from buying a house, but hopefully that won't even be a concern!

Don't know where we will be living. The safe bet is Birmingham, although neither of us have ruled out moving elsewhere if he can find a good job and there is something available for me, although with the way the economy is (and probably still will be) I wouldn't put money on a big move!

[RosieAngel]

In five years, I want to finish my education so I can get a well paying enough job to let DH have a chance at getting his education! He is very, very successful as a programmer, but he was self-taught and only spent two years in college before running out of money. I can tell this really bothers him.

DH desperately wants to move us out of the condo and into a house in five years, but I honestly don't see that actually happening unless we leave California for good, and DH isn't willing to do that! Personally, I will be amazed and thrilled if our kitchen and bathrooms get remodeled by then!