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 Cheesecat wrote:
Get a girlfriend, move out of my parent's place.

You evidently like both cheese and cats. I'd say you are well on your way.

Get a girlfriend, finish my five-years IT degree. Maybe study something else for the next five years. Physics, maybe. I don't know.

The same goal i have every night, pinky - try to take over the world.

I would like to be a bus driver. I need to get my license first, then hold it fit one or two years, so in the intermediate any job to keep me afloat would be great.
I live in the countryside where the buses spend miles between towns, and the traffic is nowhere near as severe as cities, so travelling on buses and helping people would be really nice.

My other goal was to write an RPG - I'd hit pretty far, but did it on an Android laptop, and the device crashed, wiping three years of progress. Id never backed it up. Written it on trips, train rides, hospital visits and long waits. Trying again from scratch just feels empty. Some day.
Other than that, owning a dog, running a pub in my retirement, and maybe fostering a kid.

Probably sound pretty unambitious, but I am just happy to be alive. Anything beyond that is sugar on the donut.

 Gordon Shumway wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:
Get a girlfriend, move out of my parent's place.

You evidently like both cheese and cats. I'd say you are well on your way.

I actually don't care much for cats (fine pets just don't like them a lot), more of a dog lover.

I'd just be happy to get anything done this winter, work and S.A.D are wrecking my ass something hard atm..

 whembly wrote:
What's in Tennessee? Besides Memphis? (awesome town)

Gatlinberg, Shiloh, the Smokies.
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efel45ehhm/gatlinburg-tennessee/

I need to find a new job. I currently work at a state prison for the last 12 years and after suffering my second concussion at work from being assaulted enough is enough. Tired of breaking up fights, being spit on, dealing with riots, being bitten, having to work ever weekend, swing shift, working ever holiday, ect ect... It by far the worst job I have ever had. Applied for some federal jobs and have applied for other state jobs.. So the goal for 2016 is to find a new job.

 Gordon Shumway wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
See the Boy off to PhD school.
See the Daughter off to university.
Retire to Tennessee
While retired lead a pack of wiener dogs on a terrible 20 year crime spree, raiding grocery after grocery. ALL YOUR STEAK ARE BELONG TO US!



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 Frazzled wrote:
See the Boy off to PhD school.
See the Daughter off to university.
Retire to Tennessee
While retired lead a pack of wiener dogs on a terrible 20 year crime spree, raiding grocery after grocery. ALL YOUR STEAK ARE BELONG TO US!

Been going for 6 years at this point from High School. And When I mean "Decent" I mean enough to help my mom with bills so she doesnt have to worry much.

Been there. Good goal.

Hell Frazz, if that's your goals, I'd say your life was pretty much already a success. What do you want to do for yourself at this point?

20 year wiener dog crime spree. Your local grocery store manager will know its going to be a bad day when he hears the Horn of Shrill Barking, and my battle cart, pulled by a dozen wiener dogs (he may see it coming for awhile, wiener dogs are not known for speed...). Give us all your steaks and chips and no one gets hurt! Except you cat lover!

What about if my cat is quite happy to let dogs take the food, and will quite probably hold the door open?

...My cat is not like other cats. My cat ate a raw tomato and half a kilo of flapjacks the other day. I'd say I worry, but quite honestly he seems content.

Thinking again on life goals... I published a book, started a business, travelled to a bunch of countries, and I'd say those are all things that pushed me to go on further. They're not ends, they're steps. I hope that once I get some if my to-do list done, that leads me further and I stay busy. Maybe that's a goal in itself.

Mine are pretty simple at this stage.

Promotion, family, pay off mortgage.

What are your current goals in life?

1) Money! Dollars! Sinful spiritless capitalistic values! I need that!
2) About the second point I can always manage to think later

Die happy.

Finish the pile of painting. For some reason it just keeps getting bigger and bigger!

 Frazzled wrote:

20 year wiener dog crime spree. Your local grocery store manager will know its going to be a bad day when he hears the Horn of Shrill Barking, and my battle cart, pulled by a dozen wiener dogs (he may see it coming for awhile, wiener dogs are not known for speed...). Give us all your steaks and chips and no one gets hurt! Except you cat lover!

This, but with wiener dogs instead of wolfs, and a bottle of tequila in place of the hammer?

It's an axe.

Looks like a pimp-sledge to me?

 Steve steveson wrote:
Finish the pile of painting. For some reason it just keeps getting bigger and bigger!

 Frazzled wrote:

20 year wiener dog crime spree. Your local grocery store manager will know its going to be a bad day when he hears the Horn of Shrill Barking, and my battle cart, pulled by a dozen wiener dogs (he may see it coming for awhile, wiener dogs are not known for speed...). Give us all your steaks and chips and no one gets hurt! Except you cat lover!

This, but with wiener dogs instead of wolfs, and a bottle of tequila in place of the hammer?

Exactly.

I always wanted to be an actor, or do something drama-wise, but I heard it would be difficult to find a job there, and the pay isn't very good. If I can get into a stable financial situation, finding some way to volunteer at a theater would be nice.

I've also wanted to make a cosplay out of one of my models, a converted four armed daemon prince, but still keeping the size.

Troll Britain First until I have gotten myself banned from their page. After that, mabye world domination in the name of equality and freedom?

I chose wrong.

Hear the lamentations of their women!

For the h-h-hobby, I have a pair of Warhounds I'd really like to get finished.

Or at least started.


In my professional life, I'd like to finish my bachelors in CIS. I had about a year left when I dropped out. I got my dream job about 6 months ago, and not having a degree was a hurdle; and it's going to really hurt my career growth here. I was really only able to squeak in the door because I interview pretty well, I'm pretty good at what I do, and I knew some people.

In my personal life, I'd like to try and lose some weight, which I am physically well capable of doing - I've lost substantial weight when I applied myself - but I stopped applying myself.

I'd also like to try and be more of a positive influence on Dakka. I've become sort of a jaded, adversarial conflict-craving jerk who doesn't actually do almost anything in the h--h-hobby anymore and I'd like to try and fix at least one side of that equation. Unfortunately I do revert to my base instincts pretty readily. It's a struggle.


Pretty much all of my goals are thwarted by low willpower; so if anyone has any advice, I'm all ears.

Graduate with CS degree, possibly get a masters, depends if it's financially smart.

I have many goals in life, here they are in no particular order:
Find the right woman for me and marry her, living a long and happy life together and having wonderful children.
Improve my relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Get a much better job than my current one (I work at Walmart even though I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering, but the job market around here is kind of tough, especially if you don't own a car!)
Paint all my 40k stuff to a reasonable standard.
Travel to and win a major 40k tournament (maybe not win my first one of course, but eventually win one!)
See the ocean (I'm 28 and have never been to the coast; largest body of water I've ever seen was Lake Michigan when I was, like, 8). I live in Missouri, perhaps the most landlocked state in the U.S., so maybe that's why it hasn't happened yet...
Travel to a foreign nation (just about anywhere would be good).
Go to a NASCAR race (any Sprint Cup race would be fine).
Lose weight. I'm over 300 lbs. right now, but it's hard for me to lose weight even though I work out as I tend to eat a lot (way too much junk food ).
Live to be over 100 years old. Guess I'd better see about losing the weight if I want to make this one happen!

Go on ZS, you can definitely do it. And it'll improve things for your future kids too, that they have you in their lives for longer.

Why does everyone want to have kids ? This is something I struggle to understand.

 LethalShade wrote:
Why does everyone want to have kids ? This is something I struggle to understand.

Probably happens when you have most of your life together, have a decent wife/husband, a house, an okay career and you're stuck there wondering what you should do with your life so you go "feth it, let's have a kid or 2". This is just pure conjecture on my part as I don't have any kids (at

least that I'm aware of).

Nature, I guess.

I'm quite looking forward to have a 2ft tall drunken nerd rampaging around my house.

I'd also quite like to build my own car and/or trailer, and get a caravan. I have become middle-aged.

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:
None. I actually have a complete lack of goals or motivation. I just do what I'm told to do, and hope that it goes right. Which sucks at my age especially.

I know exactly what you mean.

I'm technically now in my late 30s, I have a wife and two kids and a job, and I'm really rudderless. My goals are pretty much to get through life with a minimum of aggro, and have the odd bit of time here and there to myself to do things like painting models. Feels a bit sad when I stop to think about it...

 LethalShade wrote:
Why does everyone want to have kids ? This is something I struggle to understand.

For me, the decision to have kids was a matter of arrogance and immortality.

I've seen a lot of people in my time, and I think I'm pretty awesome compared to many of them. Now I've certainly met folks better than me, but none better than my wife. And I do think the world needs more people like us. So, we took matters into our own hands and parts beyond and created some little ones to increase the number of people out there like us. That's where the arrogance comes in.

The immortality comes in genetically, of course. Those whipper snappers look like me and my wife, and will create a new generation that also bears similarities to us- but it goes deeper than that. Every minute we spend with them, every story we introduce them to makes them more like us, and passes on the legacy of our personalities. My boys will tell some of the same terrible jokes to their kids, teach them to pee in a toilet by bombing battleships, and in general just perpetuate me long after I'm gone. It's a very cool feeling, seeing yourself blended with the person you love, and reflected from someone that looks very, very similar to you.

As you probably guessed, raising my boys is my primary goal right now- writing and publishing a novel is the secondary.

 whembly wrote:
What's in Tennessee? Besides Memphis? (awesome town)

There's the Hickok45 gun channel on youtube and his radio show.

I'm not even into guns, but I do enjoy watching this channel. Mr Hickok has a very dry sense of humour, which is a plus in my book.