Whats Your Life Plan & Ultimate Goal?


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I think people who HAVE a life plan and ultimate goal are pretty lucky, because its a horrible feeling to be stuck not knowing what you are going to do with your life.

Over the past few years ive considered many career paths that I could take, for a long time I wanted to be a pc engineer, another time I was seriously considering becoming a police officer, and other times ive just thought about getting a ****ty 9-5 job, getting through the day at work and then just enjoying the evenings. Its only recently that all these ideas have been pretty much discarded, and for once I KNOW what I want to do. It seems like a dream ambition, but the best part is that it is COMPLETELY feasible. Its not just some fantasy lifestyle, if I put the work in now, I could pull this off.

I am now 19, and ive been a musician for the last 15 years, having my first mini piano lessons when I was 4. I have been taking it quite leisurely, although ive been having a lesson a week without fail with a private tutor, ive never really pushed it as hard as I really could. I now have grade 5 theory of music under my belt and im working on grade 6 practical, although I am at a far higher standard than this. (grades 5 and 6 are no walk in the park though). It was a recent trip to the mediterranean island of Malta that finally made me see the reality of things. I was staying at a four star hotel, and in one of the rooms with a bar there was a beautiful white grand piano sitting in the corner. Me and my bro went in there to get a pint, and we saw this and almost started drooling :laugh: we went straight over and started having a go, remembering and extract from a piece here and there. It proved quite difficult because we didnt have any sheet music with us. Anyway seeing this piano got me thinking, the hotel pays good money for people to come here and play piano to the residents of the hotel, so why couldnt I do that? Even as I was sitting at the piano playing bits of pieces of songs, people were commenting saying they enjoyed my playing. I thought that if I had some music with me and actually played properly, id likely blow these people away :D

To me now, it seems ridiculous that I didnt think of something like this before. I have years of experience and training with this instrument, I really enjoy doing it, and people will pay extraordinary sums of money to listen to a good musician.

On one hand, I could work here in some crap 9-5 job slaving my guts out to help other people get rich, beg my bosses for a measly 2 weeks in the sun if I could afford it with the pathetic amount of wages I pick up, and generally have people treat me like ****, OR I could travel europe playing piano in high class restaurants and hotels for ridiculous amounts of money. I've made my decision, and one way or another im going to see it through.

So thats my ultimate goal, but of course I can get there straight away, I have a few mini goals to complete before I reach my final goal. These are:

1) Put a rocket up my behind and get done with this grade 6 practical ASAP, im aiming for this november, but at the very latest it will be june next year. (examinations are only held at these times of the year).

2) Once grade 6 is complete, I plan to skip grade 7 and go straight to grade 8. Im going to do the same with grade 8 as I did with grade 6, i.e. get it out the way as soon as possible.

3) As soon as I have grade 8 to my name im going to re-evaluate my situation. If I have the finances and it is suitable at the time, I will then begin looking for opportunities to play abroad. If not, I will instead begin work on another advanced examination, such as the Diploma. I will then re-evaluate my circumstances again, and then look for playing opportunities abroad.

So there you have it. Thats my goal and thats what im aiming for, never again will I be resigned to working for some tyrant for a living! I will answer only to myself :) Life is for living after all ;)

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I think mine are similar to many others. I'm 26, have a wonderful wife and home, and a job I enjoy doing. Some of the goals I have are children, retirement, travel, and enjoy life.

Seems simple, but thats what I like.

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I think mine are similar to many others. I'm 26, have a wonderful wife and home, and a job I enjoy doing. Some of the goals I have are children, retirement, travel, and enjoy life.

Seems simple, but thats what I like.

Fair play to you :)

I take it then that no other neowinians have any ambitions apart from spending more time on neowin? :laugh:

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Ultimate goal? Get a gmail account. Oh wait, I already I have one.

Nothing left to achieve (Y) :happy:

Seriously though, land a stable job that I enjoy doing and start a small family - 3 kids :happy:

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Hmm.

Life plan:

Work as little as possible for as much ?? as possible for a few years, retire by the time I'm 25, and top myself doing something stupid in a stupidly fast ca:p:p

Ultimate Goal:

:hump:p: With many sexy supermodels. At the same time.

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Life Plan: Set-up my own business and earn lots of money. Ultimate goal: Be in a position where I live comfortably and could retire anytime I wanted.

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I just want to be happy. I have a wife, a loving family, and ready to retire by my mid 30's. I can't say it gets much better than that. I guess If I had a specific goal beyond what i've accomplished, it would be to see every thing I could see. Experience everything I can fit into my life. Oh, maybe hit the Powerball Jackpot too. I always wanting a bowling alley in my living room.

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Life Plan....pffffff long story my roadmap :p

Ultimate Goal: finding my true one, and have 1 Billion Dollar at my bank account :D

pretty much same here.

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1. Collect underpants

2. ???

3. Profit!

:D

At the moment my sole goal is to get a decent job that I like and hopefully pays well....

Longer than that I havn't really thought about :pinch:

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I want a small house in the middle of the country, I would love a nice VW bus, and a Jaguar XJS for when I feel slighlty mad, as well as no financial constraints, I don't want millions as i'd only waste it.

Some pets and a nice family would be good also.

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When you reach a certain age, you either know you're going to be successful, or not. I have come to the realization that I will never be what I wanted to be, especially in my limited capacity.

I resigned myself, long ago, that I should just be happy with being mediocre.

I don't want the nice car.

I don't want the high paying job.

I don't want the boat, or the vacations to Europe.

I simply want to live happy, pain free, and be with my friends.

Ever since I have accept my mediocrity, my "normalness" I have had a much better time.

I am content with living paycheck to paycheck, partying on the weekends, and enduring my never ending cancer treatments. Self-acceptance is the true key to happiness.

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