Wow, great thread idea... I've actually been circling it all day, deciding how to approach it... If you asked me a year ago, my 5- and 10-year plans would have been totally different, job-wise.
10 years ago, I was a young man of 16. I was a sophomore in high school, and was thoroughly enjoying my activities with light design for the high school and the plays produced by the theater department, of which I was a part.
5 years ago, I was 21. My group of friends and I celebrated my 21st by getting on-the-floor drunk every night for 2 weeks straight. It's one of my fondest memories of my friends... we were all inseparable. There were no friends better than these people, at those times... I had a shit job and was going nowhere... but I was enjoying being "young and foolish" by partying a lot, doing what I felt like with absolutely no responsibilities except rent, utilities, and car insurance. For the most part, we didn't have a care in the world.
5 years from now, I'll be 31 and a Paramedic with almost 4 years' service under my belt. I will likely be married, if not engaged to or seriously involved with someone.
10 years from now, I'll be 36 and I may have upgraded my paramedic specialties to do airborn emergency medicine (the paramedic helicopters), or maybe an ER nurse. ER is more probable. I will still be happily child-free, and love my future wife more with every day that passes.
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