Are You Where You'd Thought You'd Be Right Now?

[Brisco Bold]

Can't say I'm thrilled with where I am right now. Figured I would have travelled more, have a higher (read: proper) paying job, have my own place, and be all around happy. But the year is still young.

Then again, as a child, my future always appeared murky; I never knew what I'd do or where I'd go.

[Dyne]

Career wise, I'm not even in the same ballpark I would like to be. Other than that, all of my high school friends are married, most have children and are miserable. Everybody keeps asking me when I'll "settle down". I keep telling them when I find someone that won't make me as miserable as them.

Not having any severe problems in my life right now gets me by. You really can't ask for much more.

[Bojack]

I planned to have 1000+ TNL posts by now but I fucked it up.

[Netwurked]

Lots of somber stories here. WTF TNL. Enjoy this mutha fucka called life.

[Brand X]

I'm in a far better career position than I ever expected myself to be in. Working on huge projects for huge clients, in a different industry than I expected, but enjoying every second of it. I'm really putting myself in a great position now to do whatever I want within my industry given a few more years experience.

Lifewise I'm only okay. I have a good core group of friends, but only a few of my very close friends still live in Cleveland. None of my friends from college live here, they are all in the NYC/Boston areas, but I at least visit them a few times a year. The only reason I'm staying here is because of my family and my job. And no serious womenz in the life right now, which I'm actually indifferent about. It's great because I have the 100% freedom in both what I do with my career, and my life, without the need to think about another person when making decisions. But also kind of sucks because I got so used to being in a relationship during the past few years that it's a little weird.

The most important thing to me is that I'm happy, which I am, so I have no complaints at all.

[Thief Silver]

I wish you and I would hang out sometime

[Type Ryan]

However, I am exactly ok with paying my dues at this stage, everything else will come to me as I earn it. My main principal in this life for everything else is just serendipity.

This is the key to long-term success. You have the right attitude about things. It doesn't seem you have a sense of entitlement that a lot of people have. Good for you. In this life, you get what you earn. Nothing is handed to you.

At 24, my goal was to be making six figures by the time I turned 30. Well, I'm almost 30 and I'm not even close to that, but I'm happy as shit nonetheless. I'm dating the girl of my dreams right now and have a good job in a rough economy, so I'm content with where I'm at in life.

[haohmaru]

Well...

I never thought I'd be a candidate for divorce, but it happened. Can't say I regret it. I'm still deciding what I want to be when (if) I grow up, but I'll do the beer store thing for now. I never really spent a lot of time planning the future - I just take each day as it comes. If I look back then there's a lot of things I would change - but who wouldn't? I guess my biggest "disappointment" is that I'm somehow STILL living on fucking Long Island and really, really, don't want to be here. My goal is to get the hell out of here when my daughter graduates H.S. or decides to come with me earlier. My GF is (a little) younger than me and will have a great job down the road, so maybe my future is to be a Mr. Mom in a decade from now. Who knows? So much can change.

All in all, life is good and all of us should focus on it as a gift and realize that the train will pull into the station a lot sooner than you think. I can't believe I'm 42. I can't believe GameGo! is coming up on being eight years old. So much has changed since the VGD/GG days. I'm amazed. Life is good.

[Daitokuji]

I would have to say that I had no idea where I wanted to be in life... until I met my current girlfriend soon to be fiance and then wife. My parents tho they took care of me didn't really give me any kind of push in what to be in life. When I graduated high school I applied to colleges but never followed through with them. I basically worked at Media Play bought lots of video games and anime and watched and played them with friends. 4 years after I graduated I hooked up with my current gf. By that time I was working in a pharmacy(which I still am) making more money than most college grads when they graduate. I bought my own house my own car and I've been going to school part time, though next year I cranking it up to full time cuz I'm tired of school. Trying to move from pharmacy tech to phamacist. Create business that can hopefully bring some kind of industry back to this broken city. I'm not there yet, but very thankful I found someone that helped me put my head on straight.

[Mr-K]

I think I've decided to go to grad school in fall 2010 back in Virginia and my girlfriend wants to work in and eventually run a bed and breakfast.

I didn't really expect these developments.