GAF, what are your aspirations?

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Kitsunebaby

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I aspire to be given money for doing absolutely nothing.

Unfortunately I'm not pretty enough for that to happen, so my next aspiration is to be a book editor. I think it would be an enjoyable career (even with all the extra hours I'd have to put in) and I think it would play well to my strengths. Just graduated a day ago and I've been readying my resume and cover letter for some open editing positions all day today.
 
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rtcn63

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And now I am reminded of:

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Goldenroad

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A little bit of money. A little bit of love. A little bit of happiness.

Maybe explore different career options one day, but for now I'm making a pretty comfortable living.

I'm trying to get in better shape physically as well. Losing 20 lbs or so would be ideal.

Other than that, I'm pretty content.
 
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Masquerader

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I aspire to conquer the world, as an unparalleled ruler.

My silly aspirations are to get a decent job, romance some guy/gal, fall in love, get married, and live with them forever.
 
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Raonak

Banned
Ever since I was very young, I dreamed of being a game developer. As I grew older, I dreamed of having a good paying job.

Now I get paid nicely as a software developer, and I do indie game development in my spare time. I love it .(Dream Module Games)
 
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Az987

all good things
I want to do something in life that future generations can look at and be inspired by. I want it to help them get through the dark times in their life like certain things have helped me.

If I can do that i'll feel like my life may have had a point after all.
 
Green Wiggly

Green Wiggly

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All I want at this point is to change jobs to something in the town where I live, so I can end my 3 hour daily commute, live a normal fucking life without being exhausted all the time, and spend more time with my daughter.
 
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rtcn63

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To be serious, I aspire to have a well-paying job that I enjoy alongside co-workers I can tolerate, and to find a woman who shares my interests but doesn't think she's too much better than me because she likely will be. I don't shower.
 
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Advocatus Diaboli

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For my part, I want to stop moving around, find a city that I can settle down in, and build up a network of friendships. Constantly traveling has destroyed, or at least hampered, most of my past friendships. Beyond that, I want to demonstrably create value for an employer, reach a commonly accepted pinnacle or triumph in my career, and then retire at a reasonably early age to a place where US dollars are worth a lot more (since I'll never be rich).
 
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Gustav

Banned
Make music

I make sure I have the time to make music, also I surround myself with people I want to make music with


Make videogames that I want to play

This is my job, and I worked on a lot of stuff I wouldn't play myself. That is why I quit my current job. This is why I stop working in F2P/mobile etc. unless it is for a purpose (make enough money to open own company)


Never work on things I am not proud of

I will not waste my time for others anymore, I will handpick what I will work on. Either I work on things that are my vision or I work for a person that I trust to have good vision. Never again will I work for corporate interests. Originally wanted to start my own company but things got pretty wild recently (see next)


Emigrate to the US

Took part in the Green Card lottery and won. Hopefully I can leave Germany for good next year.


Never wear a suit

I don't want to have anything or anyone to do that requires a dress code. Not interested in that kind of bullshit. I do what I want, I wear what I want.
 
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SillyEskimo

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I'm 39 and on cruise control now. Wife, kids, career, ect. If every single day was like the one before it, I'd be more than content. With 2-3 big vacations a year and 4-5 extended weekend getaways, I honestly couldn't be happier.

I really want to see my girls grow up into healthy, happy, and successful women. I put a lot of time, energy, and money into making sure that happens. I guess my aspirations have outgrown myself and include not only my existing family, but the prospects of the next generation as well. I want my wife and I to be the bedrock on which my whole family can count on.

Job wise? Retire from my current job I guess. I like it well enough and get paid well. However, work has never been a driving factor in my life at all so i never give it much thought.
 
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Goddard

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I don't aspire to be anything. I consider the idea that jobs, careers, or generally speaking aspiring to become something, are beneficial to society, and something everyone should want to do, ridiculous. I aspire to be free, and I am very free, so I have nothing I aspire to become or to do. If you need something to "drive" you, or you need a fancy title to be satisfied with your life I consider you a very pathetic individual.
 
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Pimplitosaurio

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I want to be debt free, retire in my 50s(lol I wish), decent money in the bank, kids that turned all right(at least better than me) and write a little bit more. Also help my wife with the garden and grow stuff, lots of stuff

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Ok now, here is my secret/not so secret aspiration: When I'm older(let's say 65, 70 or so) I want to buy a popsicle cart, learn to make popsicles, then I will leave every morning from home, I will walk a lot in the streets, selling popsicles for little money(if this "business" makes enough money to not be in the red that is succes to me) and giving wisdom for free(with a popsicle included!)
 
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Spirit44

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Video Game Programmer. Years of contemplation, along with discussions with people in the industry.

My drive is by far the desire to create anything that my mind can comprehend. Allowing others to play the crazy thoughts that live in my head.
 
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Aztechnology

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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

-To keep an open mind and not be consumed by existential angst.
- To live a "Rich" life. One where I do not need for essentials, and have a career in which my job is a facet of my life I find intriguing and don't mind doing. Also that the job provides me with enough currency to spend quality time with friends and pursue hobbies during my free time.
-Have close friends lol, not let work and the grind consume all my time.

I've recently set my sights on attending Digipen for BS in CS and Game Design. After a few years switching between a mundane school and mundane labor I visited and really felt at home there. Provided I get accepted, I'm finally excited about my life direction.
 
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zeemumu

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Spirit44 said:
Video Game Programmer. Years of contemplation, along with discussions with people in the industry.

My drive is by far the desire to create anything that my mind can comprehend. Allowing others to play the crazy thoughts that live in my head.
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This was my original aspiration too, but the industry is so weird right now that I'm having second thoughts.
 
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Gintoki313

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I just want any job I can get. I don't care what it is, I just want to work. I've been job hunting for months, so I don't care anymore. Just give me something to do.

I don't want a family, but I wouldn't mind if it turned out that way. So right now I just want a job, I'll think about my future later.
 
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Night Hunter

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Gustav said:
Believe in yourself, Bro :)
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Don't get me wrong. I do, I really do. I know that I have what it takes, but I also know that I'm not from the US, that there are thousands of others like me, that the competition is fierce and the market is small, at least for the things I want to do. The odds are against me and it's on me to beat them. The only thing that I actually got going for me is that my good friend slash flatmate knows (and I mean actually knows) a few people from the BBC and a few fairly big producton studios, whatever that's worth. He's on track to shoot his first movie (10 mill budget) next year and maybe I just go with him to Vancouver. Haven't quite figured that out yet.
 
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SugarDave

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I really don't know. I tend to either overthink things or view them from every angle equally so no plan is set for too long.

I mean, I'd like a fulfilling job but it's such a vague statement to make and I have no clue what that would entail for me. I've always thought I would love to get married and have kids one day but recently I've grown quite resistant to the idea, thinking the path of least responsibility would be ideal. Travelling the world is something I equally want to do and don't, for reasons I'm not even sure.

I don't know. I'm starting to think what I've actually always aspired to have is an easy life, the kind that most people would look back on in their old age and regret, but man, sitting down and doing nothing with most of your time is just so wonderful.
 
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HolyBaikal

Banned
I aspire to be cute and do cute things.

I aspire to remove all my body hair permanently. And I'm looking into it all the time. I spend a lot of time shaving and plucking my body hairs and waxing. Which is time consuming and not fun and painful. So I can't wait to have laser hair removal done.

I want to get all sorts of plastic surgery, too. I have a few blemishes. And I'd really like to change my nose a little bit and make my face cuter. Plastic surgery is getting safer and safer I've heard, so I'm excited about it.

I also want to become transhuman and be a cyborg. And have all sorts of amazing computers and things as a part of me. And not just have the body of my dreams, but have all sorts of amazing enhancements. I could always play video games or watch anime or do things like that no matter where I am. I could be like an amazing desktop and always upgrading myself.

I've noticed that a lot of people are really proud of their computers and things like that. Because they've worked really hard and done a lot of nice like having multiple graphics cards and an overclocked CPU and things like that. I could be my own desktop computer and always upgrade myself. That would make me feel so amazing. I don't need a desktop computer if I'm my own desktop computer.

Having the body of my dreams would be my computer case. The best computer case I could ever have. And with nanotechnology I could have computer enhancements in my mind and all over my body. And I could enhance everything. It would be like having an SLI computer and always upgrading the graphics cards. I could have millions of little CPUs and GPUs and other types of computer things inside me making sure I'm always happy and healthy.

I see my body as like a desktop computer that I'm just starting to upgrade.

And I aspire to live as long as I possibly can. I don't ever want to die. I can't imagine ever not enjoying life.

And I aspire to keep being happy and doing what makes me happy. And I want to make lots of friends who understand me and love me and what makes me happy.


And there are a lot of things I would like to do and get better at as a way of improving myself and humanity. And expressing myself and who I am and what makes me happy. I love cuteness and androgyny and moe and I'd love to be better at drawing anime. Some people can even make lots of money doing that, I'd love to be able to do that. But just being good at it as a hobby would be really nice. And I love music, I'd love to be able to become a hardstyle and hardcore DJ and make all sorts of cute amazing happy music like people like kors k and USAO who inspire me.

And I'd love to get good at programming. So that I can make the kinds of video games I love to play. I want to be like the people who make games like Fortune Summoners and I want to make games like those. If I got good at art and making music, I could make everything for the game myself. That would be so great and would give me so much self expression.

And I'd also kind of like to work in medicine like regenerative medicine and neuroscience. I want to live a long time and making it happen would be a good idea. I feel like I would be really passionate about working if I knew I could make people live longer and healthier from what I was doing.

I aspire to so many things. I think it would take a long time to talk about them all.
 
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Blargonaut

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HolyBaikal said:
I aspire to be cute and do cute things.

I aspire to remove all my body hair permanently. And I'm looking into it all the time. I spend a lot of time shaving and plucking my body hairs and waxing. Which is time consuming and not fun and painful. So I can't wait to have laser hair removal done.

I want to get all sorts of plastic surgery, too. I have a few blemishes. And I'd really like to change my nose a little bit and make my face cuter. Plastic surgery is getting safer and safer I've heard, so I'm excited about it.

I also want to become transhuman and be a cyborg. And have all sorts of amazing computers and things as a part of me. And not just have the body of my dreams, but have all sorts of amazing enhancements. I could always play video games or watch anime or do things like that no matter where I am. I could be like an amazing desktop and always upgrading myself.

I've noticed that a lot of people are really proud of their computers and things like that. Because they've worked really hard and done a lot of nice like having multiple graphics cards and an overclocked CPU and things like that. I could be my own desktop computer and always upgrade myself. That would make me feel so amazing. I don't need a desktop computer if I'm my own desktop computer.

Having the body of my dreams would be my computer case. The best computer case I could ever have. And with nanotechnology I could have computer enhancements in my mind and all over my body. And I could enhance everything. It would be like having an SLI computer and always upgrading the graphics cards. I could have millions of little CPUs and GPUs and other types of computer things inside me making sure I'm always happy and healthy.

I see my body as like a desktop computer that I'm just starting to upgrade.

And I aspire to live as long as I possibly can. I don't ever want to die. I can't imagine ever not enjoying life.

And I aspire to keep being happy and doing what makes me happy. And I want to make lots of friends who understand me and love me and what makes me happy.


And there are a lot of things I would like to do and get better at as a way of improving myself and humanity. And expressing myself and who I am and what makes me happy. I love cuteness and androgyny and moe and I'd love to be better at drawing anime. Some people can even make lots of money doing that, I'd love to be able to do that. But just being good at it as a hobby would be really nice. And I love music, I'd love to be able to become a hardstyle and hardcore DJ and make all sorts of cute amazing happy music like people like kors k and USAO who inspire me.

And I'd love to get good at programming. So that I can make the kinds of video games I love to play. I want to be like the people who make games like Fortune Summoners and I want to make games like those. If I got good at art and making music, I could make everything for the game myself. That would be so great and would give me so much self expression.

And I'd also kind of like to work in medicine like regenerative medicine and neuroscience. I want to live a long time and making it happen would be a good idea. I feel like I would be really passionate about working if I knew I could make people live longer and healthier from what I was doing.

I aspire to so many things. I think it would take a long time to talk about them all.
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Sooooooooooo... you want to be a hairless modular Nobel Prize-winning kawaii-borg script doctor...?




Becoming immortal should be first on the list, everything else will come after. Augmenting and eventually replacing your body with mechanical components will likely be the most possible (out of all your goals, besides the more reachable goals of learning game development and/or medicine) in the coming decades. You'd scratch off the danger of dying by disease too. If by a long-shot that technology somehow comes into existence in our lifetime, you'd effectively be immortal, as long as you maintain yourself well, AND hairless (two down!). The need for plastic surgery will be made redundant due to your shiny customisable artificial body. Provided that humanity survives with you and the planet you're on isn't destroyed, you can learn to do everything else in the billions of years you have until the heat death of the universe (unless you find a way to stop that too).

GET TO IT
 
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xandaca

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If every possible dream came true, I'd publish a series of books before moving into showrunning on TV and maybe directing a couple of video games. A marginally more realistic version would just be to get my books published. Given both are pretty unlikely at best, I'd be happy just finishing the 12-part series of books currently residing in my head and self-publishing them online (one is already up, just eleven to go...) and eventually being able to retire to the country with a couple of dogs.
 
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Deified Data

Banned
If I can get something published before I'm 30, I'm basically satisfied for life. Doesn't have to be a book. Could be a short story in a magazine for all I care. I have no idea where to start and basically no motivation, however.
 
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Necrovex

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My main aspiration involves waking up to a job where I have some enjoyment, but more importantly, fulfillment out of it. That is why I decided to join Peace Corps, as a way to start myself on that particular career path.
 
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late to the party

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My main aspiration for life is to live a simple, peaceful and happy life - have a good girlfriend (have been single all my life) and get married with her; do a decent, and hopefully fufilling, job and being able to get paid enough to support my family. Also stay healthy both physically and mentally.
 
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Mupod

Member
to get a job I don't hate doing, won't lay me off after 4 months and pays ok enough that I can survive and sometimes buy video games.

feels like even asking this much is impossible at this point.
 
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Beaniedude

Member
When I was a kid I aspired to get a job where I would be able to help people by using science!
Now I'm on track to get that job and I don't know man, now I just want to do creative works. Perform on stage, do stand up, write stories, be in a band.
I guess I can always just do both.
 
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Gamerloid

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My biggest goal is to become CEO or CFO of Apple Inc. Its been a dream of mine for years now. I'm a fan of big goals, because if you try hard and don't end up reaching it, most likely you're still in a great position.
 
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zeemumu

Member
Gamerloid said:
My biggest goal is to become CEO or CFO of Apple Inc. Its been a dream of mine for years now. I'm a fan of big goals, because if you try hard and don't end up reaching it, most likely you're still in a great position.
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That's...actually a really good point and method of motivation.
 
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