What do you think will be different in your life in 10 years time?

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Apart from your age
Maybe different job

I hope you are. Keep the faith 💐.

I’ll be 40 and very close to being an empty-nester 🫣🫣🫣
All three of my DC’s will be young adults.
Thinking about it scares me a bit!!

I’ll be 55
DSC will have finished uni and off living their lives.
DH will’ve been retired 3-5 years and I’ll have 2 years left in work so will just be looking forward to travelling and living a much slower life than a full on corporate job!
This is obviously dependant on health though so fingers crossed

Eldest will have probably left home and the youngest will be in secondary. I’ll have nearly/paid off my mortgages and hopefully huge my own income by then. I’ll also be fit and healthy like I promised myself 10 years ago! Fingers crossed DH is exactly as he is now.

Too scary to think how my life will be in ten years. I live day to day,
I don’t think long term as I live with a long term health condition.

I'll be nearly 80 and DH nearly 85, if we're still here.
If I am reasonably able, I will be pottering about and maintaining my coven and drumming attendance.
If not, I will be reading, listening to music, net surfing and zooming.
I think I will still be able to afford a cleaner, gardener and so on.
I may not be driving any more, so will be using buses or taxis. Who knows? Maybe trains to further destination.
I will retire from my job as a sessional registrar.
We might have installed our downstairs bathroom, to make life easier.
I might consider having lodgers or some way of using the rooms that would bring in company and or money. There will be many people unable to live in the village they grew up in for financial reasons, and letting some rooms out might be a good thing.

In my dreams kids will be young adults nd hopefully independent.
DP will have moved to sunnier climate ( won't hang around when kids are grown up) and i might think abut downsizing and moving somewhere else, maybe the seaside or countryside.
Reality is kids will probably still be at home, DP will be under my feet and I'll be stick where I am now.

Don’t think I will still be here in 10 years

I'll be 55 with a 10 year and 15 year old 😂

Youngest dc will be 26 (so probably all left home). So living alone.
Maybe grandchildren as dc1 will be 31 (I'd had 3 by that age).
Probably downsized so don't know where I'll be living.
Be very poor as I currently rely on disability benefits and won't be able to work whatever the government say. I'm actually quite apprehensive about the next 10 years with lots of changes that will probably be ut of my control.

My mum will be gone
hopefully grand children will be here
retired (praying)

My eldest will be 30!! So fuck off with your ten years from now 😂 😂

My DS will be 21. I will have God willing been ordained 7 years and hopefully have learnt to drive and shifted some of this excess weight (that's hanging around from covid times)

I plan to be married with kids or if no kids then a few dogs.

Neither will I...which strangely gives me peace

Dead, maybe

Retired early, mortgage paid off, enjoying relaxing days with my DH.

Please don’t worry - it’s not usually inherited

Honestly no idea. 10 years ago I didn’t have an inclination of how my life would be today. And that 10 years has gone far too quickly! Already lost parents. Think I’m in my forever home unless I have a lottery win. I’d like to travel more, I’d like life to be calmer and my brain more settled. My health will have gone downhill more but there’s hope that it won’t have.

All these answers are wonderful and thoughtful, they also assume the world remains as stable as it is today.

AI is about to disrupt most knowledge work. We don't know the implications of this yet. Some upsides for sure (medical breakthroughs), probably significant workforce disruption (which may affect our pensions?).

I worry about war and economic crashes.

I know this will come across as gloomy. I really hope I'm wrong. It was a surprise to see tech and geopolitics haven't been mentioned, that's all.

I'll be 81 and still be having my hair highlighted in 4 shades of blonde. I'll still be having my nails filed short and gelled red. I'll still be a size 12 and wearing jeans, boots with heels (not stilettos!) and fitted jackets with scarves from Boden and Joules. I'll probably still be wafting Coco Mademoiselle around me and wearing subtle make-up. I hope I still have opportunities to wear my best jewellery occasionally.

I'll be a divorcee with no desire for a man in my life but I hope I'll still have my close friends and my dogs. My children will be in their 50s and my grandchildren will be doing A levels and at Uni, where I intend to visit them and be mildly embarrassing but welcome.

I hope I will have embraced all the new tech that's coming our way and be proficient. I'll have an electric car by then I expect but won't be driving long journeys. I'll probably still be a member of the Labour Party (unless Corbyn is resurrected) and be helping with canvassing/leafleting (no hills!).

Or I could be dead (and buried beneath a wildflower meadow).

Hopefully I won’t be working full time!!

I’m hoping I’ll be a headteacher by then (currently deputy). DC will be teens and that will be very different. Our house will hopefully look very different as we have big plans to do a lot of work soon. I have a few things I’d like to achieve in my hobbies and I’m hoping I’ll have another dog too.

I'll be 76 if I'm still alive.
Hopefully might have a great grandchild.
My daughter and her partner will have got married and l will have a new daughter in law and two step grand daughters.
I will still be holidaying abroad for a week every month and hopefully still have my villa in the Canaries. ( I'm here now.. been 25 degrees today).
Best of all l will definitely have two new hips.

I’ll be 62, and I expect to have changed jobs (planning to move on within 2-3 years). DD will be an adult, but probably won’t have left home even if all is going well thanks to London rents.

This is assuming we haven’t all been vaporised in a nuclear strike between now and then.