Career wise, idk. I’m still new to the idea of having a career. But I definitely want to stay in weed. I’ll still be with my wife, of course, and I might have a second partner. There’s a few guys I wish used more weed so I’d see 'em more often. My current employer could make decisions that would keep me right here or in the area, but I’m more than open to relocating for the perfect future weed job. I’ll look just as good for 39 as I do for 34. My tits will probably be a little bigger than they are right now. I think these things are all a given. Otherwise/within that I’m very open to what the universe has to offer me.

Right now, I’m in a Position in social work where I work in a facility that shelters teenagers from the ages of 12-17 when they’re abused at home or something else. I do this for a little more than a year after graduating with my bachelor’s degree. I see myself in a more leading position in 5 years. Also, my wife and I will probably have kids by then.

Hopefully working for duke energy (I’ve heard they’re a really good company).

I’m with the other person – no idea I’ve had about the future has held up over 5 years.

I’m getting married in two weeks, and we’ve already been together 7 years. I may not have the same job - I’m at my limit for promotions unless I become management. And I am going to sell this house by then - moving somewhere a little newer, a little more loved by its previous owners. I think, and hope, that in 5 years, I’ll be doing even better.

I will upload my brain waves to a global supercomputer together with billions of others. Our minds will meld into a gestalt consciousness, that will solve the problem of hyperspatial travel. We will send motes of our consciousness in probes to the nearby star systems. Once there, our nanites will rain down onto barren worlds and build copies of the original world-spanning supercomputers. These new supercomputers will be linked via artificial wormholes to Earth, allowing our computing power to grow exponentially as more worlds are transformed into computing nodes. After 1 billion years, we will finally solve the problem of entropy. At that moment, silico-mankind will declare in unison: “Let there be Light!”.

I’m afraid since I’m autistic but I also have some other marginalized identities. Not to mention that I was sheltered throughout my youth. It’s hard to imagine the future nowadays.

Ideally not in Florida anymore

Realistically, probably still in Florida

If everything goes well (I’m being optimistic)…living on an island and with 2 kids (1 already incoming).

And hopefully not travelling much for work. Ideally no more than 2 or 3 times per year.

Financially Independent, Retired Early and finally free from the slave racket and its evil bullshit.

I try not to think about it. Things are worse for me today than they were 5 years ago and society isn’t becoming any easier. If anyone asks, it’s probably because it’s an interview question so my bullshit answer is “I’ll either have your job or perhaps your bosses job”.

No where near where I want to be. I’ll probably be single living alone filling my days with work, exercising and games. Maybe I have changed job, maybe I haven’t.

Hopefully dead.

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of this post.

I recently made it to my near-ideal situation in life. After 20 years in the US military, I retired last summer. I was grandfathered into the old pension program, so I get a paycheck in my bank account every month for the rest of my life, equal to a little under half my income while I was serving. Plus, I qualified for 100% disability through the VA. Which isn’t exactly ideal being disabled, but it comes with its own sizeable monthly paycheck that’s greater than my pension. So I’m actually making slightly more money in retirement than I was while I was serving. Plus, I get free medical and dental for life.

My wife, who also served, earned herself a 100% disability rating as well, so she has the same benefits. She did not retire, though, instead being medically separated from the military for physical health concerns.

On top of that, we moved back into my childhood home, where we’re taking care of my elderly father. He’s letting us live here rent-free. When he inevitably passes away one day, I’ll inherit his home, so I don’t need to worry about buying a house in this awful economy anytime soon.

At 39 years old, I’m (relatively) young, mostly healthy, save some mental and physical scars from military life, and active enough to truly enjoy retirement.

I worked in the IT field while serving in the military, and I know I could easily double or triple my income if I went back into an IT job, but I think I’m enjoying retired life too much. It would be nice to have the extra income, but I’d also be beholden to a job, giving up my youth to spend most of my waking hours working. I’d rather take my lesser income and have the freedom to plan my days than have more money but less time to enjoy it. Besides, my needs are more than met with my current passive income, so I don’t really need to work.

5 years from now, I hope to have at least started writing a memoir of some sort. I traveled the whole world in my 20 years served and I’ve always wanted to share my life experiences in webcomic form, but I’ll need to practice my art and develop a personal drawing style before I get there. I haven’t truly been invested in art since I was a child, so I need to re-learn the skills I once had. Plus, writing about my experiences might help my lingering PTSD in the long run.

I also have the freedom to partake in many hobbies now, so I’ll probably pick at a handful of them to experiment with over the coming years. I’ve always loved woodworking, ever since my Cub Scout/Boy Scout days of my youth, so I might try my hand at that. I’m living on 6 acres of land in the countryside, so I have space to invest in some big projects, without worrying about bothering the neighbors.

I definitely want to get some solar panels set up in the field behind my house and see about getting our electrical needs off the grid. Ideally, my wife and I want the ability to live completely off the grid, with enough supplies to survive at least a few months without having to leave the house. Considering we’re kind of remote out in the countryside, and we tend to have pretty heavy winters here, it’s always good to prepare to be snowed in for a while.

On that note, I’ve always wanted to try gardening. I have plenty of space, so I might try my hand at it one of these summers. If I can grow our own fresh fruits and vegetables, we can be that much closer to complete self-reliance.

I also, sadly, suspect I may have ownership of my current home within the next 5 years. My dad has Parkinson’s and is quickly declining. And it’s a degenerative disease, so once you lose motor ability, you never regain it again. He went from walking 2-4 miles a day last year to struggling just to walk 10 feet without getting dizzy and needing to rest. Plus he’s struggling just to talk now. My family watched as a friend in his 50s, diagnosed with Parkinson’s, refused to do any exercise. And within 6 months, they were dead. My dad is nearing 80 and is reaching a point where he can’t exercise much anymore, so it’s anyone’s guess how quickly his disease will consume him. Hopefully he’ll still be with us in 5 years, but that depends on how much effort he’s willing to put into staying active.

Long story short, I’m not really sure where I’ll be in 5 years because I’ve finally hit a very stable, near-unchanging situation in my life. I can literally coast through the rest of my life without changing a thing now. But that would be boring, so I’m gonna dabble in hobbies and interests and projects and hopefully ignite some new passions that I didn’t know I had before. Who knows where I’ll end up in 5 years?

Barely hanging on in the post-AI wasteland.