b3ta.com talk
You are not logged in. Login or Signup
Home » Talk » Message 6217512

If someone had asked you five years ago
"where do you see yourself in five years' time?"
how accurate would you have been?

Also, I have a cup of tea.
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 13:59, archived)
I DONT KNOWWWWW
i finished my tea :(
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 13:59, archived)
i dont think i would have been very accurate but i might have been right in a general way.
still with same bloke, still in devon, in a medium sort of steady office job...
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:00, archived)
and still garnering a lot of pleasure from life HOORAY.

(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:02, archived)
win

(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:03, archived)
In what sense?
The whole of your existance or just a small part of it?
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:00, archived)
any sense you like

(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:01, archived)

Area of residence - way off
Education - close
Friends - way off
Job - way off
Love - spot on
Money - way off
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:03, archived)
not very at all

(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:01, archived)
Not very, I was convinced I'd be dead.
I know, I know.
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:02, archived)
crumbs!
well that was a nice surprise, then
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:03, archived)
:) I thought so

(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:04, archived)
Pretty accurate,
avoiding work in a dull office job by posting here.
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:07, archived)
Pretty good, actually
last week I sat at the Chief Editor's desk, eating croissants and drinking coffee, having a chat about dependant relative clauses.
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:13, archived)
dependent
surely

and that's a fairly impressive bit of prescience, there.
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:16, archived)
I've been here so long that I'm picking up the local spelling mistakes :(
I'll be spelling it "tommorow" next.

I sincerely believed that it only took 5 years to become an Editor in a news room. Ho ho.
(, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:26, archived)