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1) Realistically, where do you think you'll be five years from now? What job will you be working, will you have family/friends/pets, where will you be living and how? Five years from now...I will be 29. I will likely be working at some underpaid job, doing something quasi-related to my field, but just not quite all the way there, like I might get to drink a glass of water on my break, rather than actually working with the organisms in the water. I will still be the Trophy Single of Family and Friends, who cries herself to sleep into the fur of her cat, after talking to all her successful, married, happy friends on the phone. I imagine that I will still be living in the basement of my father's house, or if I am really lucky, I might have an apartment in town (Antigonish of course). 2) Unrealistically, given a perfect life, where do you want to be five years from now? Living the high life in a city (Halifax, Ottawa, Montreal, etc, etc). I have the perfect job (an editor at a major publishing house), making oodles and oodles of money, and my husband, who cooks and cleans, does too, so we have everything that we could ever want (including a HUGE library with floor to ceiling bookshelves filled with books,alternating with windows in between, and large oversized comfy leather chairs in front of the fireplace). We haven't had kids yet, but are planning on it soon. My student loans have been paid off, and I am happy about everything, no regrets, nothing. Let the good times roll. 3) What's the big barrier keeping number one and two separate and distinct, or is there one? Well, let's see....number 1 is reality, whereas number 2 is just a dream. Usually the barrier of reality is a little hard to over come isn't it? 4) Utterly and completely abandoning realism, make up where you'll be in five years. Alien abductions and portals to alternate universes are encouraged. Working as a Victoria Secret Model, jetsetting across the country. Coke, men and the good life. With an unlimited supply of books at my disposal. 5) Where did you believe you'd be now, five years ago? Pick a crucial event of the past five years and tell us where you would be now if it had been different. Five years ago, I naively believed that I would have gotten my dream job upon graduation, I would have been planning my wedding to my boyfriend (who I met in my 3rd year Marine Biology class), and I wouldn't have a care in the world, other than what shoes to wear with what outfit the following day. Moving to Calgary was probably a pretty crucial event of the past five years....and if I hadn't gone out there and realized what "the real world" was like without an education, I might not have gone back to university and graduated. Hmmm...if it had been different and I stayed here without taking a break....I would probably would have become a drug addicted pycho, or something along those lines. Not the productive tax paying individual I am now!