Comments on: Your Take: What Would You Like to Accomplish in Ten Years?

By: CHICO

CHICO — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:29:20 +0000

I am currently in junior college working to earn an associate degree in nursing.in ten years i want to have earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a law degree.I am 35 years old now.

By: Corporate Barbarian

Corporate Barbarian — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:13:04 +0000

In ten years I hope to be financially independent. I’ve taken a few steps to create alternate income streams so that I’m not dependent on a job. I’d like to eventually be “location-independent”.

By: aaron 8 Pillars

aaron 8 Pillars — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:51:10 +0000

It is very cool to see what people value most. When talking about 10 years from now, many of our goals are financially based, yet they are related to our values.
In 10 years I want to have the cashflow and business acumen to live anywhere in the world and still run a successful business. This would allow my children to see the whole world.

By: lostAnnfound

lostAnnfound — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:55:40 +0000

1. To finally be debt free.
2. To get the kids through college & give them a little head start (to be able to give them a financial helping hand towards a car, house, own business, etc.)
3. To sell the house & most of our worldly possessions.
4. To hook up the RV & travel to different state/federal parks from Alaska to Florida and everywhere in between while working as a “host family” in these parks, a different one every year for as long as we can (usually get a camp site & a small stipend, but since we will be debt free it will be just fine).

By: thomas

thomas — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:18:54 +0000

Hopefully I will have won the lottery – then all my problems will be gone!

By: Funny about Money

Funny about Money — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:17:50 +0000

In 10 years I’ll be in my mid-seventies. Huh. Think of that.

I’d like to still be solvent by then. It would be nice to have connected with some sort of altruistic enterprise (other than teaching, which I hope not to still have to be doing by then). I’d like to still be healthy and to have hung onto most of my marbles. I’d like to have more friends, and maybe even to have found a special friend who wants to do things and enjoy life with me.

Not much to ask. But from this vantage point it sure seems like a lot!

By: eric

eric — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:34:29 +0000

“family, community, and career”

That trio sounds good to me too.

By: Tina Fortune

Tina Fortune — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:57:33 +0000

In 10 years I would like to be giving away 120,000 per year from my non-profit for Single Parents, married again..and for the final time, kiddies in college, millionaire status, freedom from the mundane 9-5, visit outside of the US, meet my mother.

By: The Other Schmitty

The Other Schmitty — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:53:11 +0000

In ten years I’ll hopefully be able to say I:

Earned my PhD in electrical engineering
Didn’t saw off any fingers or thumbs
Built my own house that I’ve completely paid for
Involved myself heavily in my church’s activities
Never passed a kidney stone
Paid off all my student loans

-(and in the somewhat less likely category)
Created a personal finance blog and podcast that are slightly more popular than Bargaineering
Set the record for most fart jokes in a PF blog
Built my own electric supercar
Sold at least 1000 prints of my photos
Contributed significantly to the creation of the first commercial nuclear fusion power plant

By: Carla

Carla — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:04:49 +0000

In ten years, I will be 40.

I want to be financially independent so that I will not have to rely on a “9-5″ or state disability (right now) to stay on my feet. This is especially important because though I like to stay positive, I don’t know where I will be health wise. Working until 65 may not be an option for me.

I also want to be financially well-off financially help others in need.

I would love to be able to give abundantly to charities such as the MS Foundation in hope that they are able to find a cure. (Selfish reason, I know)

By: Paul @ FiscalGeek

Paul @ FiscalGeek — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:59:46 +0000

In 10 years I hope to be in a place that I no longer feel trapped by my very vocation due to our financial mistakes of the past. I’ll be paying myself first, giving like crazy and running my own business. This will be the result of extreme focus, diligence, faith and support of my family.

By: Cat

Cat — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:19:32 +0000

In 10 years (I’ll be 36, my son will be 11)… Financially I’d like my future self to tell me I’m debt free, on track with my assets and investments to fully fund my son’s college and retire at 60, and that I’m able to provide for both my son and my mother. Professionally, I’d like my future self to tell me I’ve got a very successful career in insurance operations with a bright future ahead. Personally, I’d like to have a second child and live in either North Carolina, Texas, Utah, or Washington. An amazing and loving partner would be great, but not a requirement. Also, I’d like future me to seem happy. And hell, while we’re wishing make her skinny.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:37:48 +0000

At 41, I hope to: have $1 million in assets, have visited 5 of the 7 continents, have a 12 year old daughter who is healthy, well-adjusted and knows she’s loved, have a deeper marriage, receive a couple more promotions, spend more time doing volunteer work, have written a book (about what I don’t know), go to church more, win 1 5K in my age group, and learn sign language, to name a few things.

By: Fairy Dust

Fairy Dust — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:14:30 +0000

that our genius son hit it big with his first (or maybe second) movie and we won’t have any more money worries ever

By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer

Kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:54:57 +0000

In 10 years (I’d be 44), I’d like to have a novel finished and a second started. I’ve recently kicked off a decade of dust and have begun writing (fiction and non-fiction) with my blog and released a 50+ page collection of my fiction short stories as a PDF eBook a week ago. The novel has about 300 words so far (basically, just one murder of the many that it will contain …) – 99,700 more words until it’s finished!

I’d actually like to be there in 3 years, but kids have a way of absorbing available free time