20 years from now...

[Farrowlesparrow]

What do you think you will be doing?

This isn't about where you think the world will be, but rather where you thinkyou will be. Will you be stuck in a crappy job working for someone you don't like? Will you have achieved your goals(If indeed you really have any, rather than pipe dreams) set for the next 20 years?

Obviously 20 years is along time, especially when you are trying to predict something but where do you see yourself being?
Personally, I'm going to be retired. Its something a little too complex to explain over the internet, but I've set my goals and I'm working towards them. I reckon I'l be married, likely have a couple of kids who will have grown up a bit by then. I' have a nice house, built to my specifications. A nice car, whatever they will be selling by then. And I'l have the freedom to travel (well, financial freedom. Mobilising the family is a different thing altogether)

 

[Dedalus]

in 20 years i will be 40 :O

but i aim to be working as a full time developer, with a great team of friends who understand eachother, and want to be making brilliant games. by that time i'd also like to have written at least one book, or a play even. not too bothered about how much money i'll have, as long as it's enough to keep me in the job i like. not too bothered about having a wife, or kids, but if it happens, cool.

so in general i'm not really worried about what material posessions i'll gain in 20 years. but rather what i will be able to create and apply myself to in 20 years time.

 

[Ames]

The apocalypse....

The Mayan calendar is supposed to end at 2012. Scary stuff.

 

[The Mullinator]

Realist: Probably married maybe a kid on the way. Stuck in a dead end job that unlike alot of people I will actually enjoy it. I will be a programmer for either a standard software company or a game development studio.

Pessimistic: Nothing will really work out, jobs will be low paying, boring and I won't feel like I have accomplished anything for the greater of society. Eventually I may put myself into a self imposed exile where I will abandon all of civil society and become a hermit living in the wilderness.

Optimist: I will either be a game designer beloved by gamers all around and be married with lots of money made from a successful game. Or I will be someone who becomes a successful business man and uses my power and wealth to influence the world in ways that I see it best for humanity.

You can never be sure so I like to create all sorts of intersting predictions.

 

[ShadowFox]

The apocalypse....

The Mayan calendar is supposed to end at 2012. Scary stuff.

It's only scary if you actually believe in that hullabaloo.

I hope I will be a successful individual in 20 years, but who knows.

 

[Dalamari]

I hope to be working in Sector C Test Labs.....

But I guess I'll be either doing 2d art for a company, or building computers at a store down the street for $15 an hour.

 

[CrazyHarij]

My postcount will probably be one million on hl2.net. j/k

Hmm.. I'm not really sure, I'll probably still be in sweden or moved to the UK, I'll hopefully have a wife and kids, a nice house, a so-so car and by then I've probably left my comic drawing and moved on to hobby-painting but with a bunch of published comics in my records. My normal job will probably be working as a pilot/something boring with offices or a random labour thing. Or perhaps I've managed to become a full time concept artist at a movie or game company. If I've done that however I'll probably be in the US if it's not nuclearized by then.

I'm pretty sure I'll be heading straight up, I've been in some deep shit for a while and I'm positive things will get alot better in two decades for my part.

 

[Bad^Hat]

No idea. I suck at thinking about/planning the future. Ideally I'll be on tour with my band

Hmmm, now my mission becomes clear, I have 20 years to get a band

 

[CyberSh33p]

in 20 years, I have a few possible outcomes that I would ideally be doing.

1. a coder for a game company, making the next big hit
2. a bank robber, if I'm too lazy to code or my academic future doesn't turn out great. I have accomplices so I'm not alone.(yeah, seriously)
3. I'm living in new york city, with some job, and by night I am fighting crime in the bad neighborhoods around the city, with an assortment of interesting but undoubtedly not expensive gadgets(yeah, seriously)
4. sturggling for life or dead if Titor was correct

thats about it. maybe I'll relearn piano and join a band, that'd be cool. but I won't do it

 

[Foxtrot]

I will be dead from the wars...the ones Titor has prophesized...all hail god Titor! Our savior from the future!

 

[CyberSh33p]

I will be dead from the wars...the ones Titor has prophesized...all hail god Titor! Our savior from the future!

you realize the irony, right?

I will be dead... Our savior from the future!

 

[Foxtrot]

you realize the irony, right?

I will be dead... Our savior from the future!

I know....why else would I bother posting? Titor guy is such a joke, he tries to warn us of wars that are coming, but really for no purpose because he tells us most of us are going to die and there is nothing we can do about it.

 

[^Ben]

I will be a sex god simple enough.

No really i'll be working at valve (game developers become sex gods in 20 years time)

 

[evil^milk]

ugh... i don't want to think about the future

 

[Prince of China]

Half-Life 3 will be released!

 

[Yuri]

Farrow, your post makes me so upset.

I need to find a college to go to, I'm in 11th grade, have 1 year yet and haven't even peeked. I don't know what the hell I want to be.

I would enjoy doing level design for a gaming company, but... I don't know how possible it is to do that...

Orthodontist, Dentists, and Optomistrists all have great pay and small hours, which is what I like...

I'ma cry now.

 

[nw909]

I'll be waiting for Half-Life 2 to come out.

 

[CyberSh33p]

I'll be waiting for Half-Life 2 to come out.

rofl, nice

quickly, use up all those jokes before the preload! once that starts, they're forever dead

 

[Letters]

I'll be in Australia suckin' down tarragon tea with my wife and playing croquet with kangaroos while rolling in the cash I got from blackmailing the CIA, FBI, and the Secret Service.

 

[Yuri]

rofl, nice

quickly, use up all those jokes before the preload! once that starts, they're forever dead

Announcement: "Valve has delayed HL2 for at least another year *AFTER* the preload due to technical difficulties."

Dammit! My ass itches so bad but I can't scratch it!!

 

[<RJMC>]

Half-Life 3 will be released!

no
Half-life XIV will be released

 

[outpost]

I have no idea what I would be doing. I would like to think that I might have a job that has something to do with technology or biology. Dammit I really need to start thinking of this stuff.

 

[Baal]

I don't know what I'll be doing in 3 years....so....yea...

Hopefully Rich...ridding the debt that University causes.

 

[B.Calhoun]

I hopefully will be a 3D artist/creating monsters and such for videogames. Im an ok artist but i need to get more creative. Then maybe i can make that my profession. I want to own a nice apartment in the city, but in 20 years ill be 35 so i might have a house wwith a wife instead.

I dont dwell on this though, i just hope this is my future.

 

[McFly]

20 years from now..............


..............................
we will be waiting for hl2...........

 

[SST]

Im am gonna be the porn Star Called MasterBlaster. I have it all planed out. Just a 3 more years till im 18 and i start. In 20 years i plan to still be a Pornstar but have aids and a lot of sexually transimited desices and I plan on having 10 wifes

 

[KidRock]

In 20 years I will be richer then I am now

 

[Wraith]

waiting for them to release half life 2

 

[CyberSh33p]

waiting for them to release half life 2

nw909 beat you to it a long time ago, try again...

 

[ShadowFox]

rofl, nice

quickly, use up all those jokes before the preload! once that starts, they're forever dead

Time to bust out the DNF jokes.

 

[Sprafa]

I will be dead.

 

[Sparta]

I'll be in Australia suckin' down tarragon tea with my wife and playing croquet with kangaroos while rolling in the cash I got from blackmailing the CIA, FBI, and the Secret Service.

Learn to play Cricket, its much better then Croquet. England will tell you otherwise though, mainly because they suck royal ding-dong when it comes to cricket. No offense brits.
And in 20 years i'll bet you're wife is gonna look like Farrah Fawcett

 

[Ghost Freeman]

in 20 years i will be 40 :O

but i aim to be working as a full time developer, with a great team of friends who understand eachother, and want to be making brilliant games. by that time i'd also like to have written at least one book, or a play even. not too bothered about how much money i'll have, as long as it's enough to keep me in the job i like. not too bothered about having a wife, or kids, but if it happens, cool.

so in general i'm not really worried about what material posessions i'll gain in 20 years. but rather what i will be able to create and apply myself to in 20 years time.

What he said.

 

[Neutrino]

In 20 years hopefully I'll be deep into the areospace industry and working toward expanding our presence in space.

That's one of the more optimistic goals anyhow.

 

[lePobz]

I'll be 41, hopefully with a wife n a few kids... and a boring middle-class techy job.

Nothing special, although I don't want to be.

 

[LAYP]

The apocalypse....

The Mayan calendar is supposed to end at 2012. Scary stuff.

On christmas

 

[CyberSh33p]

On christmas

well, what else is baby jesus gonna do on his birthday? kill us all!

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Or maybe since the calander stops...it will just be Christmas for ever! :O

 

[Raxxman]

Married with kids, maybe...

Otherwise working a lab someware making something technical.

 

[HatRabit]

ill live in a cardboard box behind a McDonalds, eating their garbage and playing games on my wireless laptop that I paid for by collecting rusty nails and selling them to tourists.