Forty years ago...could you envision yourself today?

[300UGUY]

Nope. 40 years ago, I was working full time, going to school part time. I no idea how I got here!! A long, strange trip....

I'm good. I have a great wife, and good health.

 

[Pixguy]

I too could not have imagined where I've ended up today, quite happy and blessed.

40 years ago I was in 8th grade middle school picturing any female under 25 naked. Come to think of it, I still do that but have raised the age by a few decades.

 

[300UGUY]

I too could not have imagined where I've ended up today, quite happy and blessed.

40 years ago I was in 8th grade middle school picturing any female under 25 naked. Come to think of it, I still do that but have raised the age by a few decades.

??? I still look at the 25 yr olds. Doing anything is severely limited by the wife of 30 years....

 

[oldpilgrim]

In 1975 I was out of the Army for 4 years. Had a wife and 2 young kids. Had just bought a small house on a small lot near the center of town, and a small tent trailer for weekend camp outs. I had a 1969 VW Fastback to pull the little trailer and was building a garage, taking the commuter bus to Boston to work, (long days). I was bringing home $100/wk, my wife didn't have to work and we were comfortable and happy. I had no debt other than a $90.60/mo mortgage.

I was too busy working, and raising my kids to really think about 40 years later other than I had to save something for retirement, which I did.

Things have changed a lot since then. I'm retired, have a nice new house, same 2 kids, same wife, 6 grandkids and $100 week barely buys gas.

 

[Looking4new]

40 years ago, I was 28 and hauling gravel for a living. How I got where I am today? I don't have a clue, but I am here and still in good health. House and property are paid for as are the boat and Jeep. I just gotta finish paying off the tractor and I am over 1/2 way.

 

[JDgreen227]

oldpilgrim...what you said about $100 a week barely buying gas...well, about a year after I moved into that starter home, my brother stopped to visit...we were both earning about $3.50 an hour then. He was telling me, quote:

"It's so expensive...car payments, insurance, gasoline, food, rent, beer....IT COSTS ME A HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK JUST TO SURVIVE" (emphasis added here)

:laughing: :laughing:

 

[jlgurr]

Well, let me see... Wow, at the time I had no idea my "perfect" life on the farm was going to crumble a year later. I was 8 then and my parents divorced when I was nine and we moved to the suburbs away from the farm. Made a few bad choices but mostly good along the way. After college most of my planning was made by the company and I was along for the ride. Wouldn't take anything in this world for what I have been blessed with in the past 10 years. Great wife and family, good job, and a little bit o' land to play with. Probably ought to be thinking more about planning but just having too much fun.

When I am your age JD I hope to be right where I am now, just a little wiser, a bit less stressed, and playing with the grandkids.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

40 years ago, I was five years old. Life didn't turn out as I hoped.

 

[EddieWalker]

40 years ago, I was five years old. Life didn't turn out as I hoped.

I was 9 and in the 4th grade. My memory of what I wanted for the future back then had something to do with spaceships, which never happened.

30 years ago I was in the Marine Corps and I thought that when I got out I would go to school, get a degree in business and buy rental property.

20 years ago I was a Union Steward, working for Airborne Express and excited about buying my first house. I think my plans for the future where something along the lines of retiring from Airborne when I was 65 and then moving out to the country somewhere.

10 years ago I was trying to sell a spec home that I had built and worried I was going to go broke because of all the changes to the lending laws. Scared me pretty good and convinced me to go into the Home Remodeling business instead. My thinking was that it was better to get paid after every job, or while doing the job and having income coming in then to spend months spending money and not knowing if or when I would get paid. My goal then was to be able to make enough to live a decent life and not have to go to Lowes or Walmart to get a job.

My goals for my future are now completely different then at any time in my past. I want to develop my land into a farm and become self sufficient. I want to continue to grow my remodeling business, but mostly to make enough money to develop a wedding venue on my land with a long term goal of having three separate, unique venues at each corner of the place.

I do wonder what the next ten years will be like and where I'll be, what I'll want and what my priorities will be?

Eddie

 

[Professor Marvel]

I'm 57. Still don't know what I am going to do when I grow up.