Current Events > Where did "you from 10 years ago" see yourself today?

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What did the you from 10 years ago think your life would be like today (10 years after 10 years ago).

Was the prediction accurate?

Would your answer change dramatically if the question was about 5 years instead of 10?
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dead

i still doubt i'll make it to 40 but i am open to being pleasantly surprised
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it's likely to be the same. alive with lots of plats i earned with past and present systems.

10 years before: i didn't have those since i played on a gamecube.
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10 years ago I was posting on GameFAQs.

10 years later I am still posting on GameFAQs.

What has changed?

I have less consoles and games to play with since then >:(
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Studying to be a video game developer.

I am in fact studying to be a banker so oh well
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no idea
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Probably nothing like I am today. -_-
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Ten years ago, I was finishing up 12th grade. I thought that today I would have a math PhD and be teaching at some decent university. I also thought I would have made at least one small but meaningful contribution to mathematics and that I would also teach part-time at a high school and help out with their math club since I enjoyed math club when I was in high school.

In actuality I dropped out a few semester after the Master's (without getting the PhD) and though I do work in math education and enrichment I am not currently teaching at any university or high school. Lately I have been planning to transition more into programming than math, but I haven't done enough of that, so it's hardly even worth mentioning about present me.

If the question were about 5 years ago, then I would've dropped the high school math club part and would've said I'd be teaching Community College with far more interest in teaching than in math research. Five years ago I would've at least known I'd be in the Seattle area, whereas 10 years ago that would not have been in my vision.
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Darkman124 posted...

dead

i still doubt i'll make it to 40 but i am open to being pleasantly surprised

I had a history teacher in high school (coincidentally, 10 years ago I was in his class) who said he didn't thinl he'd make it to 40. He was like 37 then. But sure enough he did make it to 40. In his case it was more like he wasn't sure if he wanted to be that old though, not that he thought any malady would prevent him from reaching the milestone.
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FlashOfLight posted...

I have less consoles and games to play with since then >:(

Did you get rid of your old consoles? :O
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DreamwaIker posted...

Did you get rid of your old consoles? :O

Never, I always keep those around because I'm paranoid of having to want to buy them again and them either not being available or being 400 bucks plus.
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Then how do you have less to play with?
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pichufan2000 posted...

Studying to be a video game developer.

I am in fact studying to be a banker so oh well

You could always find a happy middle ground and handle the management of in-game currency purchased via real money.
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DreamwaIker posted...

I had a history teacher in high school (coincidentally, 10 years ago I was in his class) who said he didn't thinl he'd make it to 40. He was like 37 then. But sure enough he did make it to 40. In his case it was more like he wasn't sure if he wanted to be that old though, not that he thought any malady would prevent him from reaching the milestone.

i am not expecting maladies

there's a lot more people who don't like me than i care to admit and i am already aware that a number of them are quite violent
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DreamwaIker posted...

Then how do you have less to play with?

That's a good question.

I have to keep the other games stored away, along with the consoles, to make room for the current console, PS3, to be hooked up to the TV, cause I don't have enough space for more than just the two PS3's I have, but my game library is less than from the previous ones, and of course PS3 isn't backwards compatible, otherwise I'd still be playing the other games I have in storage.

In contrast, the PS2 could manage PS games, so it was real convenient :/
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