This time next year Rodney...

[Potter]

Do you have a five year plan?

I went on a course once where we had to stand up in front of the class and say where we'd be in five years.
It was a long time ago and I was young, it was a junior leadership course and there was quite a mix, like most young men we didn't have a clue, we were just young and aspirational.

Where do you see yourself in five years?

[KungFooBob]

Flying my jetpack to the insect protein plant to reboot one of the android workers.

[weeksy]

Yup.

Oct 2026 take £100-150kk out of my pension.
April 2027 race DH World Cups with the boy... well, him racing, me spannering/driving
He'll likely still be at school for some of it, but for the times we're not doing that he/we will be touring Europe in the van to practice DH tracks and getting Mrs Weeksy to fly out to different resorts while we're away.

It'll involve a VW Crafter type van and some flying to the US i expect.

Somewhere in there will be moving to Shropshire with Mrs Weeksy, near Hopton Castle area/Bringewood etc... She'd like more space, en-suite etc... so we'll get a bigger house. Ideally with a double garage.

I'm making the assumption i'll still have my job etc

[Count Steer]

Alive would be good. I'll worry about the rest when I get there.

Re your course, if you were all aspirational surely you aspired to be somewhere/something in the future although the plans may have been a bit vague?

For the most part, in retrospect, whoever said 'Make God laugh....show him* your plans' seems about right. Some major changes have been luck/right place-right time stuff and some required a bit more planning/application.

* her/it/them/whatever

[Mr. Dazzle]

Career wise I do have to have a 5 year plan as part of my IMechE membership / chartership. That's always been the case for membership on paper, but they actually audit it now.

I won't bore you with the details

[Cousin Jack]

I have 2 plans.

In one I will continue much like today, volunteering a bit, lazing about as much as I can, and riding my bike as far as I can manage.

In the other I will have fallen off my perch and be brown bread.

Plan A is the preferred one, and seems the more likely. Plan B is however gaining probability.

[DefTrap]

Probably semi retired. I want to do something else more interesting for pin money and quite a lot more lazing about and tinkering.

[ogri]

Two years into retirement

[Taipan]

TBH, hopefully alive. I don't really look that far ahead though. I tend to meander through life, quite aimlessly and see what turns up and how things work out. S'been okay so far..

[Yorick]

Hopefully still doing trackdays and riding enduro

In 2005 I went for an interview at Travelex and they asked where I saw myself in 10 years.
I said "retired in Lanzarote" . He looked gobsmacked and smiled when I explained.
I got the job and did retire, but a year earlier than expected

[Slenver]

Not sure I've ever really planned further than a month ahead.

I think of myself like a leaf floating down life's stream.

[Potter]

Re your course, if you were all aspirational surely you aspired to be somewhere/something in the future although the plans may have been a bit vague?

I said something boring about work and promotions.
From a personal point of view I wanted to be settled in our own house (we were renting back then) on the new estate they were building just outside of town, enjoying life as a young family - and we were.

My five year plan from now is to be retired or semi-retired, living where we are now and doing a bit of fishing/shooting/motorcycle related hobby stuff a few days a week. It's fairly loose and it's the first time in the last twenty-five that I haven't had a pretty structured plan, I used to need one to present every year as a Chartered Manager, but I'll let that lapse next year, so I don't need it.

[v8-powered]

5 years'ish - possibly 7...

I'll bail out of this contracting lark, wife will sell her business. Sell the gaff we live in and buy a smaller pad, spend some time travelling before I get too old. Probably dip in and out of contracting part-time as I see fit / we require a cash injection, without touching pension pots.

[Tarmacsurfer]

Career wise I do have to have a 5 year plan as part of my IMechE membership / chartership. That's always been the case for membership on paper, but they actually audit it now.

I won't bore you with the details

Normally an IMechE or IEEE plan involves giving them lots of money and getting FA back for it
I knocked that on the head a long time ago.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Get the company to give them lots of money

[Skub]

Alive would be good. I'll worry about the rest when I get there.

As above,with a dash of good health thrown in.

Left to my own devices,I don't really make plans for very much. Important stuff like wills etc are all done and in place. The weather forecast for the next few days is about as far as I look.

[Druid]

Alive would be good. I'll worry about the rest when I get there.

As above,with a dash of good health thrown in.

Left to my own devices,I don't really make plans for very much. Important stuff like wills etc are all done and in place. The weather forecast for the next few days is about as far as I look.

That sounds like a plan to me

[Skub]

That sounds like a plan to me

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Possibly retired, definitely in a less stressful job, but I need 3 years of my current wage before I can take the drop in wages that goes with the drop in stress

[Potter]

Alive would be good. I'll worry about the rest when I get there.

Is that a retirement thing though or have you always been like that?

I’m not sure I want that much uncertainty after such a structured existence.