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

[JDgreen227]

Back on my 23rd birthday, I was learning new skills and getting a foothold in my long-term career, and struggling to make the payments on a 2-year old Nova hatchback , plus I had just purchased my first home, a tiny handyman special and I really had no clue as to how to maintain it, let alone renovate the place. My social life basically didn't exist, and my only real toy aside from a boxful of Craftsman tools was a $50 Monkey Ward push mower.

If I could have envisioned my life today forty years ago, I sincerely would have been shocked...I never thought my life would change so radically.

What about you guys?

 

[newbury]

Sort of what I planned on and hoped for.

 

[JDgreen227]

Sort of what I planned on and hoped for.

"Sort of" is so open to every kind of interpretation there is. Let me state that I truthfully amazed and pleased at how positive the changes in my life have been...with one caveat: Getting old enough to have so many health issues...:laughing:

 

[DKCDKC]

Forty years ago I was in the process of leaving a fun job at Lion Country Safari in Georgia to go corporate in Virginia, my home state. I lost money on a house, saw the birth of my son, and felt the loss of the company zebra-striped car I had used through the OPEC Embargo... And that carried a lot of lions, cheetahs and other animals.

After a career in corporate and freelance - and some other things - I am not where I thought I'd be, but I have no complaints. I've enjoyed my family, my work, my friends and my life. Don't have great wealth, but I have land and a tractor. I'm good.

 

[DFB]

Sort of what I planned on and hoped for.

Me too :laughing:

At 23 I had just got married, at 27 I bought my then wooded property outside of town and have had it ever since. Paid cash most of the way to develop it...well, driveway, septic, etc. Took a long time but finally built a house. A lot of ups and downs along the way. You lose some you win some. But overall with a lot of hard work and some good fortune, I can say within reason I am pretty much where my long term focus had always been. And interestingly enough the several abrupt major life changes I had to deal with along the way has actually enhanced the end result

But growing up...geez I had no clue!

 

[RockyNY]

40 years ago? Let me see, I would have been -15 years old. Don't recall too much planning going on at that age!

 

[dave1949]

No way. 40 years ago I was teaching school, had a six month old baby and was living in a 2nd floor apartment 1000 miles away from here.

Come to think of it, I'm not exactly sure how I got here let alone foresee it. :laughing:

 

[k0ua]

Lets see 40 years ago I was 20 years old and working in a TV and appliance shop fixing TV's. No, not a lot of planning. A year later I was a deputy sheriff.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

40 yrs ago, that would be during the great pig chase of 75.

I'm pretty sure, as I was pushing that pig along, I was envisioning myself 40 yrs down the road living 300 miles away from the farm. NOT

The scary part, is my dad, 30 yrs before this pic, was fighting in WW2. Wonder if he envisioned the great pic chase of 75?

still don't know what this picture is about, was it his helmet, or his target?

 

[mjarrels]

I was starting my NAVY career, round the world many, many times. Have seen and done things that most people don't even dream of! Wouldn't trade that experience for anything. Picking up Vietnam boat people to watching the fall of a dictator (Marcus) with a front row seat during my two tours in the Philippines. Now, walking to the mailbox is a chore during winter.

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