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What will you be doing in the year 2037?

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HighlandWorrier · 28/09/2018 16:59

Inspired by DS's homework project, I decided to write my own essay on how my life will be in 2037. Come and share what you will all be doing in 2037 yourselves...

It is the year 2037, I am 62 years of age. DH and I are enjoying our retirement in the South of France where we spend half the year. DH has taken up golf and I am still occasionally teaching piano. We spend our days relaxing by the pool and having lots of cheese and fine wines, what's not to love!

DS has just got married to a lovely Irish girl and is working at a prestigious law firm. DD is studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and we are looking forward to her visit next week, when we get to meet her new boyfriend!

Ours days in Scotland seem a lifetime ago, when the kids were little and causing mayhem. The years do start to fly by once you reach this age...

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knottybeams · 28/09/2018 22:42

Dp will be 60 and ill be 58. I'd like to think we'll have got around to a wedding. More importantly we'll both have got where we're going career wise: with a bit of luck I'll be a partner, and trainer. If we don't have a cleaner I'm not going to be happy,in fact I'm not going to play!

DD will be 22, so just graduated or maybe doing a postgrad in something that she loves. She's 3 now so that could be anything from astrophysics to cheese.

DS will be 19, just home from a gap year and in the midst of freshers week.

Loyaultemelie · 28/09/2018 23:02

In 2037 I will be 55, Dh will be 74, oh fuck that sounds weird. Dd1 will be working on the farm and will be 27 and we will be worried how to stop her giving everything she has to her partner because she's generous to a fault but very naive. Dd2 is 22 and has finished uni and started her high flying career (possibly as leader of the free world!) as a vet. Dh and I are splitting our time between here and Malta where we have a house

Sharpandshineyteeth · 29/09/2018 01:29

I will be 57. I hope all of my 5 children can find joy I their lives. I hope they want to spend time with me and we can all get together and have a good laugh.

I hope I’ve travelled more.

I am bloody desperate to stay alive. I’ve just finished treatment for breast cancer but there is a chance it will come back. Probably because I’m so in it at the moment but I am constantly thinking that soon I will discover it’s gone to secondary breast cancer and that will be it. Which is even more odd is that I am having the best time at the moment. Getting older suits me and I love the little things in life

wineandwhine · 29/09/2018 01:55

I will be 49. I will still be married to DH, working as a law lecturer in a university while doing photography on the side and we'll be financially comfortable. DC's will be 30, 27 and 20 - hopefully learning to navigate this weird little life with partners in tow and maybe even DC's themselves. I will have a Leonberger.

keyboardjellyfish · 29/09/2018 02:32

I will be mid 40s, hopefully with two teenagers (I'm currently TTC). I'll be in the midst of home educating and working for a charity. I would have done a PHD and we'll be traveling in our truck a lot with a base in Glasgow.

KizzyWayfarer · 29/09/2018 02:43

My work is related to climate change so the way things are going I’d rather not think too much about what life will be like in 20 years time. But let’s hope that we get our act together in the next couple of years rather than having to go round in 2037 saying, “Yes we told you this would happen. Yes it’s going to get a lot worse and no we can’t stop it now.”

InterstellarSleepingElla · 29/09/2018 03:15

When 2037 arrives I will be 58, I will be working in research (likely industry but ever hopeful it would be in academia). DH will be 70 and retired so finally able to relax and spend time enjoying his hobbies. DC1 will be 35 and hopefully settled and happy and able to just cope with life. DC2 will be 22 and on a mission to take over the world!

So scary thinking that far ahead whilst also knowing in the same breath 19 years is nothing...

Graphista · 29/09/2018 03:47

I'll be 65, dd will be 36. I'm hoping life is at least a little easier for me than it is now, that someone's invented an amazing drug or something to cure OCD or at least massively reduce its impact, that pain killers have been improved in efficacy and reduced side effects.

Living in glasgow hopefully in a small but comfortable accommodation.

If I'm really lucky the economy and disability employment rights have greatly improved so I was able to work in a way suitable for me and contribute to society as well as being able to earn again. I'm not retired yet but hope to in the next few years.

I'm able to enjoy the city, occasionally going to the museums and art galleries, maybe a show, meals out with friends.

Dd has 3 DC that I adore and are growing into wonderful people, I've been able to provide some support to her in caring for them sometimes and have a lovely relationship with them. Her partner/spouse is kind, thoughtful, considerate and hard working. She's working in a career she enjoys finds meaningful, she's railing against it now but she really would make an excellent teacher. So perhaps she's finally listened to mum and trained as a teacher. Or else she's gone into advertising which is where her interest lies now, perhaps working in copywriting or client liaison. Hopefully her disability isn't yet affecting her seriously and maybe there's even been developments in treatment so that she's not in constant pain. Also, that she's not passed it on to any of the dgc (genetic).

Old friends are discussing retiring if they haven't already, but the bonus is I get the occasional visit from a dear old friend and get to reminisce. I may also be able to visit them on occasion including those that live overseas.

If we're going REAL fantasy scenario route, I finally finished a novel, got published and it was a hit! But I'm rebuffing all offers to turn it into a film, instead I envisage a tv series. I've met a kind, fun and thoughtful partner who can deal with all my crap baggage and I've discovered I'm not useless at relationships after all! I have a couple of dogs of my favourite breed who dd complains lightheartedly I spoil. But the dgc love them too. I managed that trip to aus to see family and a couple of dear friends that emigrated there a few years ago. I'm living in my 'adopted home town' (lottery winner house prices!) and able to see my dearest and oldest friends on a regular basis.

"Man plans, and God laughs". Old Yiddish saying. - yep already well aware of that, but we can dream.

I'm holding onto another Jewish saying - "this too shall pass"

Noboozeforme · 29/09/2018 04:23

God this is depressing.

I'll be 64 year old and DC will be 46 and 35. I'll probably be in a wheelchair claiming benifits, living alone. My two wonderful kids will stop by once a week..

Ok, that's all to depressing. Going to stop there !!

fussychica · 29/09/2018 08:54

Well if I'm still alive I'll be 81 OMGShock. DH the same. DS will be 45.
Hope we are all still fit and in fine settle.
I hope I'll still be living independently, I'm terrified at the thought of living in a care home, if they even exist by then.

StillMedusa · 29/09/2018 09:06

I'll be turning 70, dh will be 76! The kids will be 45, 44, 43 and 40. 45 yr old will be a GP with one child, 44 year old will be in Australia, 43 year old a senior nurse manager with 2 kid and 2 dogs. and 40 year old will be in supported living with his friend (my absolutely dream for him)

I'll probably still be working part time as I can't retire til 68 anyway. Dh will have retired from his main job but will do casual work and will go on very long cycle rides. I'll have 2 cats and a dog! Our pensions will be rubbish so we will live modestly!

Camomila · 29/09/2018 09:08

Oh fun!

I'll have just had my 50th birthday party! My parents are there and still in good health. DS will be home from university and the other two younger teens (as yet hypothetical!) aren't being grumpy and moody because its DMs big birthday.
DH surprises me with a 2nd honeymoon.
Work is going well and I've just been given a professorship (can't even spell it!) and am occasionally a talking head on tv.

(visualisation is meant to be good for achieving your goals isn't it?)

Bluesheep8 · 29/09/2018 09:16

I'll be 64.And still working.

Gettingbackonmyfeet · 29/09/2018 09:18

I'll be 58 and DP will be 54 and still claiming he gets ID'D for alcohol Hmm

I'll be Managing director of a care company with a successful sideline in delivering anxiety workshops

Ds1 will be 25 and probably in academia and travelling everywhere to learn as much about the world as he can....he will be more than capable but flood his flat on a regular basis because he forgot to turn a tap off when he suddenly though of a new type of dinosaur claw.

Ds2 will be 22 and I suspect causing mild havoc as he will live life to the absolute fullest and occasionally forget the sensible stuff

DP will be running his own training and assessing company and we will spend our downtime on the boat which will have finally morphed from being a shed on stilts on a dry dock and actually be on the water (although 2037 may be a generous estimate for that actually getting done ...more like 2057)

Of course the robots will have taken control in league with the squirrels and this will all be a virtual world where I don't realize I am a slave who picks acorns for the overlords

HumptyNumptyNooNoo · 29/09/2018 09:19

I'm dead , but floating around watching my great grandchildren play and giggling at my now grey haired daughter! She's turning into a version of me, that'll annoy her!

TheBeatGoesOnandOn · 29/09/2018 09:38

I'll be 47 and DH will be 50. and DDs will be 21 and 24. I'll be enjoying a career I like and hopefully the girls will be studying or in jobs they like.

Onesmallstepforaman · 29/09/2018 09:58

Probably feeding a worm or twoGrin

strumpetblowingatrumpet · 29/09/2018 10:02

Going on the diagnosis I received yesterday probably be receiving dialysis waiting for a new kidney. Scary thought.

strumpetblowingatrumpet · 29/09/2018 10:10

Haha, sorry about that, that was a pretty self absorbed attention seeking post.

MsAwesomeDragon · 29/09/2018 10:12

I'll be 59, DH will be 69. So I'll still be working, possibly having taken either a step up to earn more money or a step down to enjoy a better work life balance.

Dd1 will be 39 so hopefully she will be settled and happy with a long term partner (could be married, might not be) and a couple of children if she wants them. I'll enjoy being a grandma and will spend as much time with them as is feasible, depending on work patterns and location as I think DD will have to move further afield for work.

Dd2 will be 29, so again will hopefully have a career underway and will be settling down, thinking about children, generally enjoying her life.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 29/09/2018 10:20

I'll be 78, living in poverty, in a fucked up world. My kids will be in their late 40s, looking forward to years of working,before retiring late in life on a pension that will barely sustain them, never being able to afford a decent house and with an nhs that is just a memory.

HighlandWorrier · 30/09/2018 16:48

Enjoyed reading these thanks for joining in. Here's hoping 2037 brings us all good health and happiness Smile

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MiddlingMum · 30/09/2018 17:30

I will have either downsized drastically, or will have the current house filled with adult children and grandchildren because of the ludicrous house prices around here.

I will be in my 70s, but fit and healthy, outdoors in all weathers and considered to be that slightly batty old lady that every community has.

Jojoanna · 30/09/2018 17:34

I will be very tired

darkriver198868 · 30/09/2018 17:58

I will be 49. I will be working and in a good solid relationship . My daughter's will be 22 and 19 and hopefully we will be in contact . (They have been adopted.)

I will have had third child as I have come long a great deal since I was mentally ill.

(I am very optimistic)

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