What are YOU doing?

[sweethearts]

I was just wondering, what everyone wants to do in their lives? Do you have any career goals in mind.....and how are you on track to achieve them? Where do you see yourself 20 years from now?

As for me, I want to graduate with a degree in Economics, and maybe be working in business after I graduate. I see myself working for an Oil and Gas company maybe (because there are lots here)...... And 20 years from now? I hope to be happily married with a couple of kids and be living the white picket fence lifestyle (to a degree)....

what about you all?

 

[Saucy]

I'm in bible college and hope to be a pastor someday.

 

[sweethearts]

I'm already married with one baby girl, I intend to raise her and also get involved with the church. My goals are simple. I'd love to go to Bible College.

Hey sweethearts, why would you want to work for oil/gas company when oil/gas seems to be dwindling? I'm even worried about my husband's job, he just works for a gas station, I keep worrying about the fact that gas prices are going up and up and oil *reserves* are going down and down.. but do you think there is enough stability for you to maintain a job there for your lifetime?

More than anything in the world, more than a job I would love or a job my husband would love, I would want job *stability*.. to know we were taken care of. We don't have that, and it sucks. I highly recommend making sure you have it

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Yes, I agree, stability is definitely a good thing. I know plans don't always turn out the way they're supposed to, but I was just wondering what people's hopes and dreams are...where they think God is leading them...And who knows where we will actually be 20 years from now!

I'm not sure that that's where I'll end up, but I know a lot of people who are working in that field, so if it turns out that way, then that would be cool..

 

[Singing Bush]

Hey sweethearts, why would you want to work for oil/gas company when oil/gas seems to be dwindling? I'm even worried about my husband's job, he just works for a gas station, I keep worrying about the fact that gas prices are going up and up and oil *reserves* are going down and down.. but do you think there is enough stability for you to maintain a job there for your lifetime?

As a somewhat irrelevant aside to the topic at hand, and take it for what it's worth, but from what I have heard/read/had divinely revealed to me, many of the companies that are developing much of the alternative energies for things like automobiles are oil companies. I think they are intelligent enough to know that their golden goose aint going to be laying eggs forever and so are beginning to set up shop for the next major form(s) of energy where they'd already have some name brand recognition and an understanding of how the industry generally works.

Now back to your regularly scheduled conversation.

 

[Singing Bush]

I suppose I should actually answer the question too if I'm gonna post in this thread. How rude of me.

In twenty years I hope to be a married health care worker with a family.

Thankfully I'm on tract for the career aspect (in school), but not so much on the married/family part (alas, I am still azygous.) Not that I'm in a hurry mind you. Nope... perfectly content being single. Perfectly... content...

 

[BOJAX]

I dunno
I never thought I'd live this long

 

[Boss_BlueAngels]

Well, first of all I'm amazed to see that I already have achieved many of my dreams. The fact that I'm a pilot, instrument rated, and am moving on to commercial certification is my dream come true. I've already met the woman of my dreams and will be getting married... sometime in the near future.

As for 20 years, I really am not sure. I do know that I will be flying/involved in aviation in some way. And as for the topic of stability... nothing else comes close to the stability of aviation... well, lack of stability that is. But you know what? I'd much rather be happy doing something I love, than miserable being stuck behind some desk. that would kill me. My girlfriend knows what she is getting into with me and is willing to go through it with me. In 20 years I hope to have a kid (or kids) either adopted or our own, whichever we choose in the future and enjoying the things we love. (each other, and hopefully our work)

My ultimate dream is to finish my working days as a college professor teaching courses in aviation in a way to re pay the wonderful inspirations that have helped shape my life. God has blessed me greatly through aviation, and the people involved in aviation, and I want to be able to bless others with it as well.

 

[Cordelia]

I want to get my Master's degree over the next year and write in my spare time, if I have any, then take a year or two to work and try to finish and publish a novel. I'm not fussed what my day job is in that time - writing's the only thing I'm serious about, career-wise. Then I want to write my PhD. Hmm, in twenty years time I'd love to be a full time author. Anything else, I think about some other day

 

[sweethearts]

As a somewhat irrelevant aside to the topic at hand, and take it for what it's worth, but from what I have heard/read/had divinely revealed to me, many of the companies that are developing much of the alternative energies for things like automobiles are oil companies. I think they are intelligent enough to know that their golden goose aint going to be laying eggs forever and so are beginning to set up shop for the next major form(s) of energy where they'd already have some name brand recognition and an understanding of how the industry generally works.

Now back to your regularly scheduled conversation.

that may be true, but how long do you think it will take people to develop an energy source that will replace fuel completely? I know some car companies like honda have come up with hybrid vehicles...

ps. I edited out a smilie from my previous post just for you!

 

[sweethearts]

I'm already married with one baby girl, I intend to raise her and also get involved with the church. My goals are simple. I'd love to go to Bible College.

Hey sweethearts, why would you want to work for oil/gas company when oil/gas seems to be dwindling? I'm even worried about my husband's job, he just works for a gas station, I keep worrying about the fact that gas prices are going up and up and oil *reserves* are going down and down.. but do you think there is enough stability for you to maintain a job there for your lifetime?

More than anything in the world, more than a job I would love or a job my husband would love, I would want job *stability*.. to know we were taken care of. We don't have that, and it sucks. I highly recommend making sure you have it

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you're right about the stability looking grim for the oil companies...But because the majority of the corporate sector in Calgary is based in oil and gas, I don't see it slowing down so completely that people will be out of work. Perhaps it's just a downturn in the market?
Who knows maybe I'll just become a teacher.

 

[Singing Bush]

that may be true, but how long do you think it will take people to develop an energy source that will replace fuel completely? I know some car companies like honda have come up with hybrid vehicles...

True, in time there's a good chance there will no longer be a need for fuel in the sense that cars and trucks and what have you use it, but even then there will still be certain functions that some companies, such as perhaps oil companies, will be already well suited for. For example, even if we reach the point where we can recharge our automobiles in the privacy of our own home in a reasonable amount of time, we'll still need stations to recharge them during extended trips and vacations. Moreover, electricity unfortunately doesn't grow on trees just yet and while pumping electrons directly into your car may remove the need for gasoline directly, it doesn't remove the need for a source of energy at a point further down the line. Unless the world goes to other forms of energy and in a major way, it'll still need major supplies of oil just out of necessity. Perhaps other companies and industries will fulfill these needs for our economy, but I think there's a good chance many other declining industries will just adapt. Even good ol' Tobacco has started buying food product companies (not a very good example, but they're surviving nonetheless.)

ps. I edited out a smilie from my previous post just for you!

Heh, thanks. It's not so much smilies themselves which bother me, but poorly placed smilies. I was trying to convey a certain tone w/ my message and the smiley I chose just wasn't working.

 

[Ainuhina]

I dunno yet what I want to achieve in my life...I hope to get a place in a student exchange networw so I can go to the UK for a year (in 2006-2007) and to get my degree in English - though it's still some years till that...

And of course I want to find my Mr. Right and to have a family though I'm not yet sure if I want to have children....

 

[Boss_BlueAngels]

Do you really think people are going to just stop making gasoline? What are they going to do with older cars then? Cars aren't the only things that run on gasoline. They all use the same stuff and airplanes certainly aren't any near hybred technology.
The average life span of a military and/or commercial airplane is 30 years (Some, such as Boeings B-52 are going on 60 years of service!)... well, there is plenty of job security as they're still building/testing airplanes that won't enter service for another 10. And at the rate they go through gas... well, an F-14 Tomcat at max power eats 300 POUNDS of fuel per MINUTE. Nobody is every trying to make "rechargable" airplnes on a significant scale.
And jet aircraft... sorry folks, petrolium companies aren't going belly up for many, many years to come! Jets run off the byproducts of refining oil for automotive gasoline (and will burn just about anything you put in 'em) and I'd say they've got a good 100 years before we stop using oil.

With that, I wouldn't worry about your career in the petrolium/oil industry too terribly much.

 

[sweethearts]

I dunno
I never thought I'd live this long

haha...

 

[MetalBlade]

Well right now I am going to school to become a history teacher. My degree is Integrated Social Studies with a minor in History. I am going to have to go back and get my Masters. Then later I want to go back and get my doctorates in History so I can write History books. I also write alot and am trying and while try to be a full time writer.

 

[StarryEyedPea]

I wanna be, in 20 years time, continuing what I am doing now.



(that is youth and community work affiliated with churches- so spreading the light and word of God into the heart of the community!)

 

[acodno]

Right now I am a wife, and a mother of a 2 year old boy. I am going to school (sometimes half time sometimes full time), to become a counselor. In 20 years I would like to have a house in the country. My kids will probably be in high school or getting close. So I would like to be financially set, so that saving for their college education (if they want to go) won't be a problem. Also since they will be in their last couple years of school I will hopefully be planning to go on more (this is assuming I was able to go on a few already) mission trips than I was able to while they were in school. Something like that anyways!

 

[Ginsu]

I want to work on the oil rigs of Alberta.

 

[Holdinfourth]

I was just wondering, what everyone wants to do in their lives? Do you have any career goals in mind.....and how are you on track to achieve them? Where do you see yourself 20 years from now?

what about you all?

Well, I would like to continue at the job I am at (Sales and Marketing for a world leading metals industry). Continue going to school, you can never have to much.

In 20 years? I will be 49 years old! I hope to still be riding a skateboard, snowboard, and teaching my children (if I have any) to do the same. I am hoping for a couple of strong, left handed, athletic boys! (Huge baseball fan)

Right now I am on track to being "in traction" in 20 years. But God gave me the ability to do the things I love to do, so I will do them for his glory, and if I gethurt doing them, oh well. As long as I am setting an example, and furthering Gods kingdom while doing so, it is all worth it!

 

[SOLDOUT4HIM]

I want to get my BS in Biology and teach high school. Eventually I'd like to get my Master's and either be a prof. or go into HS administration. Of course I want to find the woman God has for me, marry her, and have little ones.