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Life Is Short. How Do You Plan To Live It? Dreams and goals, esp. for people moving to Seoul

#1 User is offline   saraluv7 

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Posted 25 December 2008 - 11:51 AM

Welps, all you guys are aware that beginning in the 20's, we go through our rites of passages like dating, family feuds, moving out, first kiss, stronger spiritual senses about a Higher being, college life, making money. Yet, for the late bloomers people just assume that we don't have dreams but it's just that we're late at reaching our goals! What are yours? Especially those who are planning on moving to Seoul. Not all of you are just party animals wanting fun out there, I safely assume. Some have serious goals to find a good relationship and settle down.
For me,

1. save money for board and tuition (help Mom out with this part)
2. practice being frugal by not going out to spend money on its clothes, makeup and materials(hand held camera phones, video phones etc)
3. get married to my lovely prince who's waiting for me ~* where is he? in Seoul, of course! hee
4. attend an English-speaking religious meeting place where there's greater need for native tongues like me (so excited about this part!)
5. read more books and build a library once I settle in with my prince- of college textbooks, reading material about korean history and architecture
6. learn to interior design my own future apartment or house <---- most likely back to the States if I want one of these!
7. go door to door and preach the Bible (like Mormons do) on a regular basis, like 70+ hours a month, just for my well-being and in dedication to God, because I love Him and my neighbors
8. become an excelled inspiring English teacher- always the nicer one kids go to for extra help on their other issues
9. become a fashion-smart street smart woman with cool features, accessories and eye for fashion when it comes to shopping 멋쨍이
10. have 1 child only and name it either Jacob or Stella
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#2 User is offline   Laxntiga 

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Posted 25 December 2008 - 12:13 PM

Plans? These are just general plans, hmmmmm.............. here we go!

2009

Interview for the Peace Corps
Job Hunt (recently laid off)
Move out of my apt @ the end of Feb.

At the end of Feb,

Plan A: Go to Korea to help work at and manage my moms company. Work in the marketing dept to increase sales, maybe help relocate the office to Seoul.
Plan B: Move into a friends house to live cheap and job hunt.

If Plan A: Sell my beloved Miata, work in Korea for 2-3 Months, come back to the states, job hunt some more, if that fails, go back to Korea to work another 2-3 months. When I come back, Peace Corps should have found a spot for me and ready to ship me out in 2010.
If Plan B: Job hunt, if not employed by end of March, probably fall back onto plan A.


2010

Plan A: Hope to be accepted and placed by the Peace Corps. If I am, serve for the next two years.
Plan B: If the Peace Corps haven't called me back, while waiting to hear back, find a Job and work. Study for GMATS to eventually go to Grad School.

If Plan B: Sell my Miata and buy a Honda S2000


2012

Should have came back from the Peace Corps...

Plan A: Find a job that pays me a lot so I can start start my own business model to create my own company.
Plan B: Go to grad school.

If Plan A: Buy myself a Honda S2000

2014

Plan A: If I chose plan A in 2012, I should be close to starting my own company. Assembling the right people, finding the location, finding all the vendors, contracts all signed, etc
Plan B: If I chose plan B in 2012, I should have graduated from Grad School. I will find a job, work to save enough money to start my own company.

In 2014, I should be 29 yrs old... I hope to have a good girlfriend by then, maybe a fiancee.
If I dont have a Fiancee, buy a Honda S2000.
If I have a finacee, buy a 4 door sedan.


These are just nice plans I made for myself, who knows what the future holds for us. Planning too far ahead into the future is useless, waste of brain energy.
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#3 User is offline   Rainbow-lotus 

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Posted 25 December 2008 - 01:03 PM

1) Finsh school
2) save up money so my parents get go back to there homeland and retire
3) FInish up my last fun/party young life before i settle
4) research and find an awsome job
5) i want my child to be more special and unique so i want a MIX child, meaning my bf doesnt have to be white but a different type of asian from me (cuz i hear mix asians have a higher chance of healthiest and smartest plus they r sexy*u can research on it*) also it would be cooler since i also love to learn new stuff with someone who is different culturely we can show each other our homelands and learn new languages. its just better overal
6) being a foreigner is great! so go overseas move in with my husband
7) travel the world. \


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#4 User is offline   princesspoppy 

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Posted 25 December 2008 - 01:19 PM

"Not all of you are just party animals wanting fun out there."

Lol. Hey! That's me! No..really. I mean it.

Right now my plan is: work, work, work, work some more, save money, and move to a city where I can get lost. And then...who knows..I'll see where I go from there. Probably do some odd "immoral" jobs like: work at hooters, be a go-go dancer at a club, maybe do some stripping, do some nude modeling, and maybe be an escort, for a day, just to see how it is.

All I know is that, my main life goal is to lose all world bias that I have embedded in my thoughts and brain. So I want to meet different, crazy, and weird people. I want to do different, crazy, and weird things.

So yeah, sorry if my goal isn't serious.
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#5 User is offline   yeah 

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Posted 25 December 2008 - 02:14 PM

1. accumulate as much wealth as i can, as fast as possible
2. live life to the fullest while im young- being able to travel, drive nice cars etc.
3. ???
4. Profit
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#6 User is offline   MPowerKai 

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Posted 26 December 2008 - 07:40 PM

2015

Take over my families companies
I am poor. Please spare a dollar if you see me :)
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Posted 26 December 2008 - 07:44 PM

2020

Take over the world
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Posted 26 December 2008 - 11:38 PM

Feb, 2020:

Overthrow derrek.
Once more into the buffet
Into the last good bite I'll ever know
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Live and eat on this day.  Live and eat on this day.

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#9 User is offline   Pogichinoy 

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Posted 27 December 2008 - 04:38 AM

^Hahahaha @ derrek and HERMIT

I'm too lazy to list my superficial goals, because they're the same as what I've written in other similar threads. i.e. becoming financially successful.

2012

Marry my girlfriend. tongue.gif
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Posted 27 December 2008 - 07:13 AM

Come on Hermit, at least give me a year to have some fun... dry.gif
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#11 User is offline   sillymeboy 

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Posted 28 December 2008 - 12:25 AM

I thought the world was going to end by 2012 smile.gif ?

Anyway,my goal is simple graduate college asap since it's killing my spirit. Hopefully after graduating college become financially stable. That's as far as I go since I don't plan I just live life as it happens
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Posted 28 December 2008 - 01:11 AM

Not really on topic in regards as to what plans I have for my life but the title of this thread reminded me of a line in "I Think I Love My Wife." biggrin.gif

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You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bull[shorts]. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.

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Posted 28 December 2008 - 02:21 AM

I ride 'til the wheels fall off.

Don't let plans get in the way of living your life.

All I have to say.
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Posted 28 December 2008 - 04:30 AM

summer '09
I hope to find a summer job in hk

Graduate in 2010 work a few years here and hope to relocate to HK.
I miscalculated a few years ago. The plan was move to HK asap, but God knows why I decided to keep studying to get a master degree. I should have started working after I have my bachelor degree, work 2-3 years then relocate to HK. So if I kept to the origianl plan I should be moving to HK in 2009 or 2010... Biggest mistake I made in life...
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Posted 28 December 2008 - 07:05 AM

I have recently uprooted myself from a comfortable yet mundane life in Las Vegas to move to Korea to teach English. I am enjoying myself immensely although there are a few aspects of my life that I would like to change.

1. Being overweight in a country full of thin people, I would like to lose 40-50 pounds. (20-25kg?) Living in Korea helps. I have lost maybe 7-8 pounds. The food is good and not as unhealthy.
2. Be able to fit into Korean clothing.
3. Stop going out and spending money like it is nothing. Although my salary is good, I could always save more. (I will not stop buying CDs though)
4. Use my time wisely and begin to travel. (I want to go to Vietnam, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore and Australia while I am on this side of the world.)
5. Learn to speak Korean.
6. Absorb as much of this culture as I possibly can. (Learn customs, traditions, attend festivals and further challenge myself to grow as an individual)
7. Spend more time participating in the activities that I enjoy such as cooking and reading.
8. Never allow myself to become complacent.
9. Eventually obtain a Masters and Doctorate.
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Posted 28 December 2008 - 10:25 PM

QUOTE (Laxntiga @ Dec 25 2008, 04:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If I dont have a Fiancee, buy a Honda S2000.
If I have a finacee, buy a 4 door sedan.

haha, this part made me LOL laugh.gif

for me, I'm just going to go with the flow. whatever comes comes..

but I want to have a child by the time i'm 30 lol,
and hopefully be out of grad school by then as well sweatingbullets.gif
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