Foo - 10 years ago today...

January 29, 1999...what were you up to? Where were you in life or otherwise? Did you foresee yourself where you are today? Are you content with where you are, better or worse off than you thought?

I was in the Republic of South Africa serving as a Peace Corps volunteer. Engaged, and if I remember correctly, living w/ my fiancee'. I had a 10 year plan, so today's plan is about what I expected. Content, and about where I had planned to be.

Where do you see yourself on January 29, 2019?

January 29, 1999...what were you up to? Where were you in life or otherwise? Did you foresee yourself where you are today? Are you content with where you are, better or worse off than you thought?

I was in the Republic of South Africa serving as a Peace Corps volunteer. Engaged, and if I remember correctly, living w/ my fiancee'. I had a 10 year plan, so today's plan is about what I expected. Content, and about where I had planned to be.

Where do you see yourself on January 29, 2019?

Interesting thread.

I saw myself in this field. maybe living somewhere else. Married my gf, which is the best part of the story. Am very content with health and more or less with fitness, though there is lots of room for improvement in the latter.

I was having fun in scouts while suffering through grade school.

Where I'll be in 10 years is really hard to say with the way the world seems to be coming unglued. But if it's still feasible at that point, I'm planning on living in rural Arizona.

I had just started working for my current employer. Possibly I thought I'd be higher up on the food chain (but only by one position max). I was also in grad school (early on in grad school).

I guess I wish I'd gone a bit further and/or been doing different type of software than I'm doing, but overall, I'm not too disappointed.

No clue. Slept too many times since then.

Think I was laid off at the time, so I would have been in a vodka fog.:p

Ten years ago? Sitting in the Third grade.

In another ten years? Hopefully a Masters or Doctorate with a kick ass research job with a wife.

I just turned 20 and I was working as a shipping clerk in a warehouse full of women.

In 10 years, I hope to see myself running a successful eco-tourism business in Costa Rica.

Hmm; now I need to dig. I was 11 at the time :) Old enough to post on BikeForums!

My family just finished their first anniversary of living in New Jersey, after moving from Brooklyn (where I live now). I was still getting into the swing of things with school ("everyone was WHACK"), and trying (but failing) to make friends.

I was working with a local computer shop at the time. I don't think things blew over yet, but were pretty close to doing so. (I started working there in September of 1999 or so, and a few months later, he got the bright idea of asking me for my dial-up passwords. I told him that he can't get those, but he was persistent on knowing. After I told him to pound sand a few times (respectfully, of course), he pretty much terminated my small job function the next day. He closed up shop maybe a year or two later, along with another PC shop that I actually liked and helped from time to time.) I was spending a lot of time learning about computers and helping local computer shops (by being a pest!).

I was also in my middle school's choir, but I distinctly remember walking the mile to school, in the cold, to catch choir practice at 8 in the morning. With Jay-Z's "Vol 2: Life of Sean Carter," my Panasonic headphones and a great CD player, life was good.

My best friend was a girl that I had a long-time crush on, but she had a lot of mental issues that really put my family at discomfort. I saw her everyday, and we would hang out and chit-chat. Last time I saw her was in the summer for her birthday party, and we talked only for a few minutes. I think I'll try to visit her again soon, now that I bring her up :) To make matters even sweeter, my other good friend also had behavioral issues, a very dysfunctional family (even their dog was ****ed up) and a not-so-pleasant relationship with my parents. Haven't seen him since he moved; i wonder what he's up to now...

Good times...(in a bad, almost embarrassing sort of way :p) My, how times have changed.

10 years ago I was in my last year of high school thinking I was going to go into computer science and physics. I hadn't yet been rejected from the university I really wanted to go to (and didn't know that I was going to go to a place that suited me much better). I had no interest in Chinese, and could barely speak any.

No way at all I saw myself where I am today, but I think where I am today is much cooler than what I had in mind back then.

I don't dare guess where I'll be 10 years from now. Assuming the economic downturn doesn't make us all turn to cannibalism and I'm still around, I'll be 37, the same age as Dennis, the constitutional peasant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOTKA0aGI0). My guess is I'll still be able to recite that entire sketch.

playing with power rangers

I was 11 years old and very content with life. lol
Definetely have lost some of my blind childhood optimism and had some turbulent years since then but life is beginning to work itself out again.

I could not answer in the 10 minutes ago today thread and you expect me to answer in here?

Where will I be in 10 years? Ask me next year, and I might give you a slightly different answer. :)

I do know that I will be in Information Technology (or so I think), as this has and will probably always be my passion. I intend on holding at least a Master's in a special concentration of Computer Engineering (probably software related, since I'm start to appreciate that kind of work more). I wanted to go for the Ph.D, but that was when I was focused on working in genetics research. Hating Chemistry hampered that goal a bit (thank God; I love what I'm doing now.)

I would like to have visited Japan and the Philippines (and conquered their women! just kidding, half), and hopefully be more fluent in Japanese and Tagalog. Half-Japanese or Half-Filipino children was (and sort of still is) something I saw in my future too, though my current girlfriend is challenging this.

I would like to have a small house in a nice area for my children to grow and excel in without the hardships that my sisters and I had to encounter living in Brooklyn, and then trying to adjust to life in New Jersey (which was better for all of us in the end). I don't aspire on being financially rich, but a rich family is a (hopeful) must.

If anything else, I would like to have a nice Trek Madone 6.9 (yes, from this year; it's somewhat of a milestone for the company and is a piece of art on its own), a carbon-fiber Colnago, some high-end steel of this era or last, and a white garage door to shoot pics for the Vintage and/or Road Cycling forum to glaze over! :)

10 years ago I was in my last year of high school thinking I was going to go into computer science and physics. I hadn't yet been rejected from the university I really wanted to go to (and didn't know that I was going to go to a place that suited me much better). I had no interest in Chinese, and could barely speak any.

No way at all I saw myself where I am today, but I think where I am today is much cooler than what I had in mind back then.

I don't dare guess where I'll be 10 years from now. Assuming the economic downturn doesn't make us all turn to cannibalism and I'm still around, I'll be 37, the same age as Dennis, the constitutional peasant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOTKA0aGI0). My guess is I'll still be able to recite that entire sketch.

Out of complete curiosity and unrelatedness to the question at hand, what made you want to learn Chinese?

I wasn't old enough to vote, pay taxes (work), or drive. :twitchy: I don't imagine I was up to much.

Out of complete curiosity and unrelatedness to the question at hand, what made you want to learn Chinese?

I took it in high school (in Hong Kong) because it seemed more useful than French or Spanish in an Asian high school, but I never enjoyed it, and spoke very little by the time I graduated.

After university, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and coming to China to learn Chinese seemed like a better use of my time than moping around my parents' apartment and looking for work. I was thinking I'd be in China 6 months, a year maximum... it's now been 4.5 years.

Wow. 10 years ago...I was working on finishing my undergraduate degree and planning a wedding. Little did I know that I would not be married 10 years later. I have always expected that I would be a teacher, so in that sense I am exactly where I imagined I would be.

I was living in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico.

I was living in Inverness Scotland, talking to an attorney in Miami about an H1b1 visa, at that point I had not idea what the future was going to be.

Move forward 10 years I have been married for 7 now live in the Carolinas and I became American.

Hope the next 10 will be just as interesting.

I took it in high school (in Hong Kong) because it seemed more useful than French or Spanish in an Asian high school, but I never enjoyed it, and spoke very little by the time I graduated.

After university, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and coming to China to learn Chinese seemed like a better use of my time than moping around my parents' apartment and looking for work. I was thinking I'd be in China 6 months, a year maximum... it's now been 4.5 years.

It's nice when life throws a nice curve ball at you like that. :)

I personally just wanted Japanese to learn to "increase" my chances with Japanese women; I picked up Tagalog from my former girlfriend, and it stuck. Now, it's just a more fulfilling goal in continually becoming more well-rounded.

Wow, some of you are young.

Huh, ten years ago I was just married. Still married.

ten years ago I was six years into my marriage (second)

Huh, ten years ago I was just married. Still married.Same man/woman? :innocent:

I was starting my final semester of college before I dropped out, and was about to get a job as a courier for a car dealership. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and little did I know how badly that job would affect my health (over weight, high blood pressure, etc). I was "into" cars (shudder) and would never have dreamed that ten years later I wouldn't even own one, on purpose. :lol: During the last ten years I've been a draftsman, truck driver, and warehouse worker. I guess I'm not where I thought I'd be, since I didn't know what I wanted to do anyway and, in a way, still don't. If I'm still alive in 2019, I'd like to think I'll be living somewhere else and have a job doing something that involves bikes, but of course for all I know I may be doing the exact thing I am now. :( I've thought about selling my house and just riding around the country for a while until I think of something, but I don't like camping. :lol:

Same man/woman? :innocent:

Woman, yup. And she just brought home pizza and doritos :thumb:

10 years ago I was a junior in high school, about to meet my "high school sweetheart". I was tops in my school in math/calculus so I was planning for an incredible career in Aerospace Engineering. I was in the middle of my first season of varsity ice hockey and we were doing terrible (we ended up with 4 wins that year). I dreamed about wanting to live anywhere but where I grew up. A bike was still just a toy to me back then.

Today, I am an admin assistant for a vascular surgeon. I went to school for engineering, but halfway through my 3rd year called it quits after a couple of co-op programs (courtesy of Northeastern University) showed me that I don't want the life of an engineer. My high school sweetheart and I broke up the summer after we graduated. I still dream about wanting to live anywhere but where I am, but it doesn't look too promising. I no longer play ice hockey, but I play inline hockey (my team is currently 14-0 in our season http://www.aihlhockey.com/team.php?team_id=52992 ). I no longer view my bikes as toys.

Woman, yup. And she just brought home pizza and doritos :thumb:

She got a sister? 'Cause I got a brother.

I guess I was starting my second semester of community college. Had been dating my girlfriend for almost a year and a half. Now, I'm working for "the man" at my first job after University, I married the same girl a couple of years ago, and we have an awesome kid (http://flickr.com/photos/gurana/sets/72157600313317718/).

It's nice when life throws a nice curve ball at you like that. :)

I personally just wanted Japanese to learn to "increase" my chances with Japanese women; I picked up Tagalog from my former girlfriend, and it stuck. Now, it's just a more fulfilling goal in continually becoming more well-rounded.

My life is nothing if not filled with curve balls :D

Actually, I see now that I left out some details: I was actually thinking of studying ANY language. My top three choices were Chinese, Japanese (I had learned some as a kid) and Russian (studied Russian/Soviet history in university). At that point, I didn't like the idea of studying a totally new language since I had studied so many part way, so Russian was out. I chose Chinese over Japanese because I figured I had never lived in China and it would be worth a shot.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread now...

I was a road cycling savant, even then.

10 years ago I was just starting out as an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Redlands in SoCal. I had a 2 year old boy who I was still taking care of full-time.

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Ten years ago I was still married and had just moved into a new house. Everyone was starting to get worried about Y2K stuff. I hadn't started cycling yet.

Ten years from now I hope to have won the lottery and become the biggest philanthropist in SoCal. I figure if I win the lottery I can have my pick of the local cougar bait too.

I figure if I win the lottery I can have my pick of the local cougar bait too.Hey, if you're that filthy-stinkin'-rich, you need not limit yourselves to locals.

"Jeeves, fetch me my Lear!"

"Ma'am, may I remind you that my name is not Jeeves, but Arthur?"

"JEEVES! PLANE! *throws beer bottle*"

10 years ago I was in the same place I am now, for the most part. I was overweight at 200 pounds back then. I was expecting to be a supervisor by now but due to crazy recent events, that mission hasn't been accomplished yet (I'm already doing the job anyway, but in the city it's "who you know"). But hey! I'm bicycling now and down to 180! I weighed 185 in 1984 so I'm doing good.
I retire in 5 more years, so in 10 years I'll have been retired. Half of the people that gave me a hard time at work will be dead and buried. God willing, I'll be enjoying early morning bicycle rides or hikes then meet up with the fellas for a good Warhammer 40,000 game.
Ernest

Ten years ago today I was in college probably thinking about what grad schools I wanted to apply to, listening to rage against the machine, looking out at snow or at least another cold Providence day and thinking I wanted to live and work someplace with warm winter weather, knew what I would probably be and am doing today (maybe a dream about where I would be living at the moment), still upset about an ending relationship before Christmas and wondering if I would find someone to love for the rest of my life and layering on clothes to ride somewhere and wanting spring to be here now.

"JEEVES! PLANE! *throws Dom Perignon bottle*"

I don't like beer.

I don't like beer.I figured you'd keep a few bottles of it around to throw at the butler, so you wouldn't have to throw the good stuff.

I would only throw empties.

Back then wifey and me were recovering from loosing our first child (lost in 1998) and planning a 2nd attempt... we wanted kids badly. Our joint salaries were 5x the state's median and we were swimming in money. We had our own house, 3 new cars... we were living very well. We had everything except what we wanted the most: children.

Ten years later, we are not making nearly the same amount of money. We no longer own a home, we rent. We now drive around in old cars and have to watch our spending carefully. But we have our 2 children.

For the future, I have no Idea. I made so many plans in the past... none of them worked. I don't wanna make any plans for the future. I just wanna raise my children well.

Ten years ago today I was in college probably thinking about what grad schools I wanted to apply to, listening to rage against the machine,This makes me smile for reasons I can't easily explain. Let's just say it's unexpected. :)


I would only throw empties.One would hope!

Ten years ago ... listening to rage against the machine...

rage against the machine is 10 years old already? WTF! I guess is time for those CDs to join the boxin the atic... the Whitesnake and White Lion ones could use the company... :(

Their debut album is almost 20 years old.

I was living at home with my parents on unemployment having graduated with average grades in a year when there was a glut of accounting graduates. I was going for bike rides and long walks around town for something to do and feeling depressed and broke.

This makes me smile for reasons I can't easily explain. Let's just say it's unexpected. :)


I was a wild child then :)

First saw them at the Pink Pop festival in Holland. I went to their summer tour opening in Atlanta around 96 and then went to see them whenever they were playing close to where I was at. They did a New Jersey show around this time in 99 which made me think about them.

That's interesting. I didn't think you would have been old enough to attend a RATM concert in 96. I went to Rage concerts back then and I am pretty old. :)

That's interesting. I didn't think you would have been old enough to attend a RATM concert in 96. I went to Rage concerts back then and I am pretty old. :)

I wasn't that old....but I was a teenager who thought she was older :)

Ten years ago today I had more hair than I do now and was working as a Rehabilitation Practitioner... my oldest daughter was just a little over a year old and she is now, as she was then... the apple of her father's eye.

She had less hair then than she does now... :)

Much has changed in a decade as besides having less hair I find myself setting out on a brand new journey and am starting a new chapter in my life.

And I don't know exactly where I will be in ten years although I am looking forward to sharing this walk with the most amazing and wonderful woman.

In ten years my daughters will become young women... their childhood is passing all too quickly here.

And I will pass the half century mark long before the next decade passes... I will hope for better health... for myself and those that I love.

10 years ago today I had just moved to South Florida and began my new job as a police officer in Broward County.

Almost immediately I knew I had made a mistake. I didn't like the job very much, and I hated South Florida.

Through an interesting twist of fate, I now find myself working as a teacher in Japan. I love the work, and I love living here.

Where will I be 10 years from now? I won't be heartbroken if I'm doing the same thing.

10 years ago I was a senior at Montana State University majoring in Political Science. I was taking an elective 400 level class called Eco-Feminism it was a seminar class with lots of reading and writing.... it was going to be ssssooooo much work. I thought hhhhhmmmmm I am not required to take this class, I have no reason to take on this much work in my last semester so why am I doing this? I looked to see what other class I could take in it's place and found an opening in a photography class... I found my passion that I still participate in. If I would have taken the photography course earlier in my schooling I have no doubt that I would have made that my major.

As it stands I have made more money and met more great people as a result of my photography than I ever have with my poli sci degree.... go figure.

So I am not sure where I will be in another 10 years but I know that where ever I am I will be happy and content with or without money... but I will be in a good space. Both my kids will be grown and out of the house... LOL at least that is the plan.