What do you think your life will look like in 2030?

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I’ll have a nine year old and a six year old. I’ll be 49, turning 50. Hoping life will be easier in many ways and not quite as full on!

I hope to be part time at work although I’ll ask for three days spread over four so I can drop off and pick up at school, very much hoping (and longing) for one day off a week.

Hope we will have more money!

Oh god. I'm pretty content with my day to day life but just thinking briefly about where we might be in 6 years and I feel decidedly overwhelmed and sad?! That's not good.

So, mission is to make sure I'm as content then as I am now I guess 😬

Much as it looks like now. Can't really see anything changing in just 6 years. Not planning to move house or change jobs. I hope I will have been on a few big holidays. Maybe I'll get a dog.

I wrote out a big long list of how I think like will look like and thinking about how things will be brilliant and then deleted it all in case it tempted fate. I'm optimistic about how it could look like but not bold enough to think it all couldn't be undone by misfortune.

Second child off to uni and starting to make plans to buy a place in the Canaries to live in part of the year.

Gosh. Well, I'll be turning 41 that year. Hopefully earning more money. Recently started a new career and it's going well so far. Hoping to be a bit fitter by then and go on some nice solo holidays.

DS will be 22. Currently he has plans to do a medical degree so if he does, he will still be studying at uni.

Kids all flown the nest and in the last push of working full time before going part time and looking at taking some of my pension.

A grandchild would be nice but unlikely.

Don't expect DDog to still be around, likely to have even more cats than at present!

Possibly will have moved house.

I'll be 42 with a 21 year old and a 15 year old, with husband for 25 years.

I'll hopefully be happy in work (like I am now).

Will hopefully be living in a different part of the county to where we are now.

On a more personal note, I will be off the antidepressants, feeling better about my history and had closure with it all. I'll be 5 or 6 stone lighter as I need to lose the weight but I've been saying that for years and it's not happened yet

I'll be 58, three years retired and hopefully starting to spend what we've been saving for, travelling and spending lots of time abroad.
And hopefully in good health.

My OH turns 60 in 2029, same year as we hopefully pay off the mortgage, and twins finish Uni (assuming they do a year abroad/in industry). So 2030 is the horizon for fewer financial responsibilities / commitments, more freedom to travel, more disposable income, hopefully more leisure time as could potentially reduce hours/ do something different at that point. I'll be 54 and hopefully still in good health 🤞

Husband and I downsized to our flat, enjoying our family and each other.

I'll be 57, kids will be 27 and 22. I hope life will be easier than it is now. I'll be working part time and will have actually managed a few holidays will just DH and me. I yearn to feel a bit more free and easy and to just have holidays with DH.
I'm so over parental responsibility at this level and would like to loosen the apron strings.

I'll be 50 with grown up children, one prob at uni, one prob still at home. Definitely new house.

Not sure if I'll be in the same job, hopefully same company different role.

Looking forward to the next phase of life with DH (travel, fitness) but sad that my parents might not be here then ☹️.

I’ll be 60, DC will be 40 and 39. Not sure life will be much different to now! Neither of my DC have plans for DC of their own and are both single by choice. Obviously that can change but they certainly seemed fixed on the no DC thing. I don’t have a partner and also not looking for one. No big life plans on the horizon. Not looking to move house, will be here till the end! Any travel I want to do, I’ve been doing over the last 15 years or so and that will continue I hope. Not looking to change career at this point, although might cut my hours somewhat at around 60.

It all sounds quite boring reading it back but we’re enjoying a period of stability after many years of changes, difficulties etc, so it’s welcome. I haven’t had the easiest of lives so just pottering along as I am until retirement will suit me just fine.

My DC are aged 14 to 18, so I see big changes in the next few years. Leaving home, uni, learning to drive etc. At the moment it's still quite full on (they all do lots of sports so need lifts to training and matches) so it will be a big change. I'm making plans to do stuff for myself!

Whatever it will be, at least I hope we still be healthy, housed and eating nice food, having all over Europe peace and still will sit on my bum on the sofa and looking at green views from my window. If by that time the views are sea or any other water, still be welcome - I am a free bird and have an easy attitude

I'll be 47 with a 21 and 19 year old. Hopefully retired or very near that point!

Peaceful.
I'll be dead by then.

It had better bloody well be peaceful anyway. If there's a sodding afterlife I want my money back. 🤣

Pretty good if all goes to plan. Mortgage is already paid off and we're already established in forever home. Weight loss goal will be achieved. I'll get some more stylish clothes and take up new hobbies. Will be financially secure so probably more trips away exploring new areas.

On the other hand, there could be nuclear war and none of that will happen.

Carpe diem and all that.

I will be turning 40. DS will be 8. If all things go to plan I'll also have a 5 year old. I hope I'm still working part-time. I also hope we are in a new home - a detached 4 bed is the dream (currently a 3 bed terraced).

I’ll be close to 40 and will finally own a house (I hope!). DS will be at secondary school. We’ll still live in the same area because we love it here. I expect DH and I will still be in the same jobs as we’ve no reason to leave them, paid well, happy, etc. We’ll be debt free, in good fitness and health (something we’re currently trying to sort out) and I’ll finally have figured out what hair style/colour suits me! We’ll also be going on a few holidays a year. I’m feeling very positive about the future.

Kids to have finished uni and be moved out - youngest possible just and looking at another bog move to different part of UK for DH work - as he seeks further promotion.

Think we'll still be paying the mortgage off - we'd be early 50s but a manageable amount and while move might push us to a more expensive area we may be able to downsize. I don't think we'll be mortgage free though. Hopefully we'll be enjoying more weekends away.

I'll be retired and unable to afford the heating on.

The dog, DH and I will huddle around a candle, wrapped in blankets, living on lentil soup probably.

Are you unable to carry on working? I'll have to work into my 70s probably.

DH and I will be 52. Mortgage will have been paid off 1 year, DD will be coming up to sitting A-levels. So we most likely we will have spent the last year frantically saving our previous mortgage payments + her school fees up for Uni.
Once she is at Uni we will look to both start winding down ie dropping a day - 2 days per week until we are 60. Hopefully also planning lots of holidays abroad that we missed out due to school fees.

I am unable to keep working. I've had to give up work this year. I am on PiP with a chronic health condition. DH is quite seriously disabled.

By 2030 I won't quite be receiving my old age pension, I'll be 65 at that point with another 2 years to wait, so we might not be able to afford the candle...😉