5 years from now, will you be 5 years ahead?

Guess it'd depend on what "ahead" means to you. Does it means just making it on the same level and not loosing ground, or does it mean doubling what you now have? I'd say as long as you aren't loosing ground, you would be ahead. What I really hate is when they ask you that in a job interview. "where do you see yourself in 5 years from now?". It is so stupid as I would think they would be more concerned with where you see yourself NOW so as to determine if you are where they would want you to be in their company. What diff does it make where you see yourself in 5 years? Right now is what matters and what you are thinking about and hwat they should be thinking about! I even put it to the test, my husband too. THey'd ask us that question or close relation to it, and by then I'd know if I even wanted the job or not, and if not, then I'd answer that quesion with "Sitting behind your desk with your job description". Did I ever get that job? No. Same with my husband. So they don't really want to know "where you see yourself", they just want to make themselves look cool and in control and all, cause they really don't know what the job you are applying for entails and they can't let you know that so they ask stupid questions, thinking you won't notice! And if you do, they don't hire you cause then they know you are smarter than they are and they fear for their job!

Of course. I don't make 5 year plans, but I have thought of starting to do that. At the moment, I only plan 1 and 3 years ahead.

An interesting discussion for sure. I actually have tried making some goals and thoughts of what I want to be doing etc and would love to have a more successful business by then. It will take a lot of planning, saving and prayer. But I have learned anything is possible when you really put your mind up too it.

that is on a bank commercial here in Canada and you are right, it does really make you think. we have been so poor that we havent been really able to save for the future but can only make it day to day.

Well I am now. I've entered school and gotten a part time job. I want to reduce my debt and hopefully soon get a mortgage loan so I can buy a house. Those are my main goals right now, and I hope to have achieved them within the next 5 years.

Hiya bounce, Seeing as I live usually from day to day mostly I really don´t know where I will be in five years time. Will I be ahead? I am trying to work at something at the moment which is giving me a lot of challenges but I take it in my stride all I can and try to get to where I can and that´s it. I think if you live too far ahead in the future you cannot appreciate what there is now around you at least not properly. It´s good to plan into the future but you have to be anchored in the present too to be able to plan and try to work whatever it is out.xxx

While we can never know what the future holds...and life tends to throw some curve balls when you least expect it, it's good to plan ahead. As you get older, the timelines get longer. Instead of what am I going to do next year, you start thinking what am I going to do within five years. I would hope that I would be ahead in five years of where I had planned, but I have experienced plenty of setbacks along the way. As I get closer to retirement, the importance of reaching goals becomes more keen. Very interesting post and answers for this one!

hi bounce at my age I only plan ahead a year, before I die I do hope my son can eventually make enough that we can once again move into an apartment and I can leave here and be totally autonomous again .big dreams in this economy but myson told me last monday he has work for all this week and will get paid Five hundred dollars so again I am hoping. when I came here the day before Thanksgiving 2008 I had no idea I wou ld have to be here this long. My son said mom I will get a job probably in two or three months so you won't be here long. I just smiled as the economy was so bad.Its now 2011 so who knows what lies ahead. right nopw I am just glad to finally get the blasted referral to a wound specialist next week.right now I am going to write that book about what all I have been through.wow.

I am doing things to progress..it's just that I don't know exactly where it is that I am progressing to. There will be things that I am doing now that will be finished in 5 years. Actually two but that's well within the 5..lol..I wish I knew what I am preparing myself for.

It is a very interesting thing to think about. Our family is working right now on getting all of our old debt paid off. So, right now we aren't able to save for the future, but ultimately we are putting ourselves in a better place than the place that we were in in the past. It isn't easy to do what we have to do right now to get through this, but I know that when we come out of it in two years that we are going to be much stronger than we were when we started.

I would like to think that I would be 5 years ahead in that length of time. Anything else would feel like life was standing still and I was just spinning my wheels. We all need a goal to motivate us.

I sure hope I'm ahead of the current life game five years from now! I generally set goals by the day, some for the year, but have never planned farther ahead in time than a year. Daily goals I'm good at, yearly; well, depends on what life dishes out! I've a couple of goals for 2011 that I am doing what I can to bring to fruition and I have high hopes I'll meet these goals. As for five years ... Heck, I'll set one right now ... somehow, some way, five years from now I want to be living in sunny south Florida instead of cold and gloomy (in more ways than one) central Ohio.

im 20 just now. and i think its the best time for me to plan my 5 years of ahead for my better future.watever i`ll do now will affect my whole life in a large way.

Sometimes I think it is not possible to do everything what is planned. Definitely there should be thoughts what one is going to achieve in the life. If I wish to have a new apartment in the future, I should mind this aim and strive hard to achieve my wish. But if something happens that I have not expected, perhaps I have to think just how to live the current day successfully, because the future might make changes in the life whether I wish it or not.

I certainly hope to be ahead, in 5 years from now. Sometimes, this is something that is difficult to say for sure, but it's certainly something that I hope for.

Five years from now, I will definitely be ahead...my past will be behind me, and I will be loving life even more than I am now.

Five years from now I would hope I would be ahead, at least this is my goal and intention. Sometimes life hands us a bad hand that even with carefully planning we somehow remain in the same circle. I am sure that five years from now I will have enough to look back at and say, thankfully that was over and now on to my next five years.