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!

Wow in 2030 I'll be 40, with an eight year old, 10 year old and 17 year old.

Hopefully be living in a bigger house. Looking at unis for our eldest. I'd love to be working a bit more, hopefully having an annual holiday which we can't currently afford to do.

I'm hoping life we will be getting better and easier. Only last year we were having to use a food bank, I'd only just starting working again (very part time) and my husbands job was awful, so much has changed in the last year for the better, I hope that can continue I feel like it's time for us to get some good luck and hard work paying off.

I'll be 50 as well, OP! My DCs will be 7 and 11. I feel sad just at the thought of my eldest going off to big school. We're in a pretty comfortable place and I'm a sahm with no plans to return to work. I hope I'll be able to use my time once the youngest is at school to get back to my own interests, work on some projects and have more quality time with DH. We moved house last year to the home where I hope we'll stay until the DCs leave home, but we've had no time to redecorate so I hope it would look more like our place by then.

Hope DH and I will still be healthy and happy, and the same for our DC. More of the same I suppose, as we are very lucky atm. I hope my eldest has ditched the current partner but what will be, will be; as long as she is happy.
In the next six years I would imagine the two oldest relatives will die, I hope they manage this with peace.

In 2030, assuming still alive, I will be newly retired. I don't know what that will look like yet as I will probably have moved house and I don't know what interests i will have then or what my health and finances will allow.

DD will be turning 6 and I'll be 45. Hopefully plodding along and the house will almost be the way we want it probably gearing up to do the kitchen 😰

In 2030, I'll be 49. Aim to be mortgage free by then. We may have DC1 in Uni, DC2 in college. I like my job, happy to still be doing it in 6yrs time. I want to have some decent holidays by then.

I’ll be 53. My daughters will be 30 and 25. I’ll be at least one, possibly 2, promotions ahead so either in the most senior or second most senior job possible. I’ll have finally finished all my career focused learning and be studying just for fun.

Mortgage will be long gone, unless we make that one more move im wondering if we should.

DH will be 52 and I probably needing a hip replacement from his running, or there abouts. Life should be nice. Busy, demanding with work, but plenty of time to enjoy each other, travel and have fun too.

Honestly I hope to be a director and have done my child rearing. And have my nice flat in the centre of London and a wine cellar with my chums around more often for dinner.

I'll be 34, how scary 🤣

I'm praying and hoping I'll be a mother by then, we've had 4 miscarriages and losing all hope!!

Hoping to be debt free

Been abroad with Dh (would be his first time)

New job in something I enjoy doing

Possibly living in a different area

Hope me and DH are still in love and as happy as we are now 🥰

I’ll just be turning 50 with a 17 year old and 15 year old.

Expect to have moved home. May even have changed careers. I hope I have been able to take many more far flung holidays with the kids. Praying for good health for all of us.

6 years? DS will be doing A levels and hopefully still playing just one of his current 3 sports at a good level. Hopefully he will have entered and mostly travelled through the puberty tunnel so will be starting to like us again. I also hope he will have grown at least a foot as he's very paranoid at the moment!

DD will be 15 so will probably hate me and have regular emotional melt downs and need a lot of support but won't let me give it . I expect to feel very helpless and desperately worried about her as I remember how shit it was.

My business will be ticking over with regular repeat clients and not too much work to bring in new business due to referrals.

I will be fatter but stronger and healthier

I'll be 70 if I'm still alive. DH will be 66 and coming up to drawing his state pension. Hopefully both dogs and cats will still be alive. I've got a Foster Son with learning disabilities and he's 17 now. He couldn't manage on his own ATM. I'm wonder if he would be able to live independently at 24. I don't think he would although he is making steady progress, but it's just very slow. Maybe he could live independently in 10 years time. I'll be happy if we are all still alive and well not in pain.

I’ll be 42, so my husband will be 37 and we’ll have a 14 and an 8 year old.

Hopefully I’ll be eight years from retirement, and our teenager will have at least some days where he doesn’t hate us/life is so unfair etc. But I guess our life will likely be fairly similar, we’ll both likely be in the same career just a bit further up the ladder.

Our poor chickens and cat probably will have died, but as the dog is three he will still be here hopefully.

I'll be 47 and I'll get a new photo for my drivers license. Dc will be mids 20s, 12 and 10. Probably won't have any pets anymore. Not planning to move house.

Apart from that I don't know. I usually like to have a plan , even if it doesn't end up being like that. But there's nothing. I suppose I will return to employment after being a sahm .

Weird to think about! DD will be 19 and I imagine she'll be at uni or travelling. She's very adventurous. DS will be 17 which is very hard to imagine (he's so young got his age). I might be working more hours. Other than that, life will be similar

I'll be 50, kids will have flown, mortgage paid off. I'm already going part time from next year but will still have more money and time on account of one already flying. Hopefully another dog. I'd better be on the other side of peri by then because I'm fed up already!

Gosh it’s only 6 years 😱I will be turning 69 , drawing my little pension and thinking about renewing my driving license in good time for 2031.

The younger of my 2 lovely dogs may, with a bit of luck, still be with us. My DH will also, finally have retired, and will continue to moan about the weather and the Scottish government. And I will have to deal with that all day, without that 8-6 hiatus I currently enjoy

No idea! I'll be 56 and the DC will be 22 and 19 so we'll have moved onto the next stage of life. DC1 will probably be finishing uni, while DC2 will be starting. I will hopefully have a PT job by then, or maybe I'll be mired in issues with my, by then, 87 and 82-year-old DPs? God, I hope not! My car is already 8 years old, so I assume I'll have a different one, but we'll still be in the same house unless something catastrophic occurs in the next six years. Again, I hope not!

In 2030 I will be 48 with a 20 year old and a 16 year old.

I hope I'm doing a job that brings me true fulfilment, that I'm good at it and more relaxed in myself.

I hope I'm fitter and thinner than I currently am as my weight and health hasn't been great these past couple of years.

I'd like to have moved house as we are clearly outgrowing the one we are in; and the new one needs more bedroom space and a garage!

We will sadly still be chipping away at the mortgage but hope to have been on a few more foreign holidays before the children are too old to want to come with us!

I'll be mid-fifties, and my kids should be fully independent and probably living elsewhere. I don't anticipate grandchildren though, as they'll only be in their mid/late 20s.

I hope I will have reestablished some kind of career (not working at the moment after a period of ill health) and we will feel a bit more financially secure than we do at the moment. Hopefully DP and I will be free to enjoy a few more holidays and weekends away, visiting our kids and doing the things we enjoy.

It's likely that DH's parents will have died and we might have had a substantial inheritance too, but I worry for his mental health which can be fragile.

My DP's are younger and fitter but a lot can happen in six years so I maybe doing more caring.

I'll be 35 with a 9 and 7 year old. On the fence about trying for a 3rd in the next few years so maybe a younger one then too. I think I'll still be working at the same place, hopefully with a more senior/better paid role. I love our house and would happily stay here but it's probably not comfortably big enough for 3 DC so we may have moved if we did have another by then. Not far though, I love where we live.

not sure where i will be living
whether dh will still be with us, or dm
i hope ddog is
might be a grandparent
i hope to be partially retired but will have 3 1/2 years before my state pension is able to be claimed

In 6 years I'll have a 20, 15 and 14 years old DC. I'll be 45.
I suspect that life will be similar to now and we will be planning our move to the country once youngest has completed high school.
Hopefully all Dc will still be happy humans and DC one will be either at uni or working in a job they like.

Much the same day to day.
I'll probably lose the last of my paternal family by then so Christmas etc will be different.

OP! I am you from the future. I have a 9 and 6 year old. I am 50.

I am very sorry to say that I'm working harder than ever- we still need childcare for school pickup and holidays and every day is a juggle for who starts work at 6am and who does dropoff. My job and DH jobs are now the classic mumsnet "big jobs", as we are at peak career. Yet with COL there isn't ever enough spare money for anything proper fancy like a housekeeper or help with cooking or even a proper nanny (As no nannies want a job of 6 hours termtime, 50 hours holidays! So you get students etc who can't cook or get the kids to do homework).

True, I'm not racing after a 2 year old, but it's still a full load of washing and meals and homework and musical instruments and reading records... every day. And showing up for work like a grown up, and being responsible for a larger team.

Weekends are full of football practices and parties. A party every weekend. At least one.

Also two other bonuses -

1. they don't go to sleep til 9.30 or 10 and if you want them to do anything other than gaming or screen time, you have to engage with them all the time and talk about friends and sports and whether a shark could eat a crocodile. It's brilliant, but knackering in a different way.

2. Your parents might be really sick! We have two who are living with probably terminal conditions so we can't go more than a fortnight without juggling some help for them too.

Life is rich. It's good. But it's not a wind-down. Not yet.