Your Future!

MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
<div class="IPBDescription">and how your going to obtain it.</div> hey all well im bored. so its up to you to entertain me..

im gonna start.

what do you want to do with your life and how aer you going to go about achieving this?

me? i want to join Swat in my younger years, then retire and have a gaming cafe in my older ones when i have kids and i want to actually live.

the plan to get there is;

1, work 2 jobs with gf working 2 aswell, for 2 years to get some back money saved up to just pack up and move to the us...
2, the reason is then ill be 21. i want to get into the police young.. cos otherwise ill miss my shot. and i refuse to go to a country where i would be considered a child. after being an adult already for a year here.
3, buy a small apartment in PA (dont know where yet)
4, do the police thing, and try my best to get on swat. before anyone says how hard it is etc. i know i can do it.. and ill be damned if your gonna tell me different.
5, when me and my fiancee person decide to settle down officially (im estimating around 36 odd, when ill be past my swat prime anyway...) ill retire from police work, and open my own bar/gaming cafe and then ill get old.. watch my children grow up and yeah <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->


and i know lots of things could affect it. but you gotta have faith ya know?

so share with the nsssss'rs whats your future plans?
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  • EpidemicEpidemic Dark Force Gorge Join Date: 2003-06-29 Member: 17781Members
    I'll become a mad scientist and move into my underground lab in hawai <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • UZiUZi Eight inches of C4 between the legs. Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13767Members
    By military action against...certain nations.
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    I shall rule the world. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it. My plan is as diabolical as it is simple. Nobody can stop me now! NOBODY!

    Mwahahahahahahahahaha!
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Why do these replies not surpise me? Most people don't have a fully-fledged plan of their life yet. Many people will never have one. In the end, there are too many uncertain factors (in your case: whether you get into SWAT or not. Yes, I know you consider that a certainty. I don't. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->).

    Me, I'm planning to get proper internet access back so I can play games. Unfortunately, that means that I'll have to work. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    I'm noticing a trend... :>

    interesting plan - good luck with it... we can go out for a drink when you get here =P if I haven't fled the country by then that is...

    my life plan is very loose - to try to do as well as I can in the business world, move in with my womans, have babehs, retire out in the country, maybe in New Zealand...
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+Nov 19 2004, 05:54 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Nov 19 2004, 05:54 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Why do these replies not surpise me? Most people don't have a fully-fledged plan of their life yet. Many people will never have one. In the end, there are too many uncertain factors (in your case: whether you get into SWAT or not. Yes, I know you consider that a certainty. I don't. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->).

    Me, I'm planning to get proper internet access back so I can play games. Unfortunately, that means that I'll have to work. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Oh, they all underestimated me at first. Every last one of them. And they still do. But they won't for long...

    Soon, the earth will know the iron grip of my unbending will. Submit before me now, and evade my eventual and inevitable wrath!
  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    edited November 2004
    I took criminal justice courses in highschool lol so I started out early.
    .

    Then you get your college degree in criminal justice administration, or just criminal justice, or criminology, or forensic science if you want.
    Work part time as a police dispatcher.
    Get a job as a police cadet.
    Get rehired as a seasonal police officer.
    Move into permenant location for full time job.

    <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    oh yea for police/ law enforcement type jobs. Being ex-military is to your advantage during the testing and hiring phases. You get free points on the test.

    Although the only prior "military expirience" I ever had was as an Airman 1st Class with the CAP being the radio guy on ground SAR teams.

    Dont do any drugs even marijuana. Dont get in any trouble. They will ask you if you have ever been arrested/put on probation etc even if it was as a juvinile.

    Get good grades especially if you want to go federal.
    Lots of federal jobs hire non cj related majors too such as the FBI hires tons of economics, foreign language, political science, psychology, and accounting, as well as computer science.

    Be in good physical shape.

    Any police academy has lots of phyiscal training aspects. Complete with drill sgts etc. State Police agencies are especially big on this too.

    When applying for a cj job and you

    fill out application
    Take a test
    Writtian and physical test. On math, writing, english skills, etc running, weight lifting, body mass to weight ratio must pass in some places, obstacle course etc

    if accepted you get a background packet.
    This packet can include you telling them your bank account numbers, past addresses, past girl/boy friend names (they want to dig up any dirt on you) where you have lived (dont live out of country for a long time b/c then they have to send somoene over there to do your background investigation, and u might get moved to the back pile) and lots of other personal stuff.

    If you pass that you have an oral interview usualy its you and a panal of interviewers.
    If you pass this
    You have to go through a 550 some question psychological test.
    You have to go through a polygraph lie detector test.

    This wole process can take up several months.

    and you have to do all this stuff every time you apply to a different agency. In some cases agencies that are close to each other MIGHT share some of the stuff like the psych test score but not a whole lot.

    Agencies might give u conditional employment. As in take you to the advanced stages of the application process but during that time you cannot accept/work for another job in law enforcement.


    Basically its a big pain in the **** but if its something you really want to do its very much worth it.
  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    I am going to end up where ever the hell I end up, and in order to get there I am going to take whatever the hell path falls infront of me that provides the most potential benifit with the least potential effort. Right now I'm doing a comp sci major at some university that I got a bunch of scolarships at.
  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    good god, if it's that hard to become a cop, I hope you get paid $200k a year =x
  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    I want to make games. That's why I got into programming, and why I'm doing Computer Science. It'll take a while, though - I need more homegrown games under my belt first.
  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-DiscoZombie+Nov 19 2004, 09:44 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DiscoZombie @ Nov 19 2004, 09:44 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> good god, if it's that hard to become a cop, I hope you get paid $200k a year =x <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's not "that hard to become a cop" it's that hard to become a cop with a decent shot at doing something you might call a carreer. To meet the minimums of basic constable work you don't need a whole lot in terms of education, but to acctually take the job anywhere you have alot better chances of basing yourself earlyer for those positions then attempting to do it later.
  • RedfordRedford Monorailcatfjord Join Date: 2002-04-28 Member: 528Members, NS1 Playtester
    The funny thing about reality: Plans never work.
  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Redford+Nov 19 2004, 10:10 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Redford @ Nov 19 2004, 10:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The funny thing about reality: Plans never work. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Which is why I have the plans I have <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Swiftspear+Nov 19 2004, 05:16 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Nov 19 2004, 05:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Which is why I have the plans I have <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    They won't work though. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • HawkeyeHawkeye Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1855Members
    Anyone ever watch that movie "The Score"? Robert Devito made a curiously profound quote in his movie regarding planning your life. He essentially said to figure out what you want to do for the rest of your life, no matter how hard. Then, you spend the rest of your life trying to grab the pieces of the dream until you finally have it.

    I don't think it was just a movie line. The writers were trying to get through with something with that one.

    It's good solid advice.
  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Swiftspear+Nov 19 2004, 09:57 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Nov 19 2004, 09:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-DiscoZombie+Nov 19 2004, 09:44 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DiscoZombie @ Nov 19 2004, 09:44 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> good god, if it's that hard to become a cop, I hope you get paid $200k a year =x <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's not "that hard to become a cop" it's that hard to become a cop with a decent shot at doing something you might call a carreer. To meet the minimums of basic constable work you don't need a whole lot in terms of education, but to acctually take the job anywhere you have alot better chances of basing yourself earlyer for those positions then attempting to do it later. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Where do you live? US or some other country,

    i ask jsut b/c you used the word constable.

    In the US some states still have a branch of law enforcement called constables.

    They usualy either fill in the job of keeping order in very small communities where the population doesnt warrent an "offical" organized police force, or they are given the task of serving subpeonas and stuff like that.


    PS

    Police in america usualy make around (on average starting) 33-38k a year starting depending on starting expirience or other qualifications. So nothing great.

    Then depending on where you are, things such as rank, added qualifications, and time spent with the department that amount will increase.

    A police officer can make a LOT (as in a significant amount) of overtime pay if they want too and depending on where they work.

    Also depending on where you work and live is another huge aspect.

    State police in NY make about $10k more a year then their counterparts in PA state right below them for example.

    Also "littletown" AL might make $33K a year starting while the cops in Aspen CO, might make a LOT more. The more higher tax base of the area more money to invest into police. A Sg.t or LT or Cpt. Rank will make a lot more money than a lower ranked officer too.
    Federal jobs or being a LT you might get $56K -$80+K depending on what pay scale you find yourself in.
    But then again state and federal police get state and federal health and other benifits.
  • CMEastCMEast Join Date: 2002-05-19 Member: 632Members
    At 25 - Bigger place, a job I enjoy

    At 30 - Wife, kids (2 or 3 maybe although its really up to her and luck), a good job in the computer industry where I'm respected by my peers. A mortgage (not gonna be unrealistic and hope I'll own the house by then but you never know!)

    At 40 - Kids that do what they're told! No mortgage, good pension scheme

    At 45 - Affair with a 19yr old super model, a sports car (or a hover board <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->), quit my old job to run lan parties and play games, the usual mid-life crisis stuff.

    50 - My wife takes me back (or joins in), my super model gf/ex uses some of her money to fund my grandest scheme yet, a zepplin!

    60 - Using the latest in technology I reduce my age back to 25 again and float around the world in my zepplin biggin it up gigalo stylee while hosting lan parties (I can fly all over the world so can pick up clan members in Europe, America, Autralasia etc).

    100 (65, 30 after my latest regeneration) - RULE THE WORLD!

    All planned <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->, it will happen, mystic meg told me so.
  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    East wins the thread so far =P
  • TheWizardTheWizard Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10553Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Moquiao+Nov 19 2004, 06:58 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Moquiao @ Nov 19 2004, 06:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> hey all well im bored. so its up to you to entertain me..

    im gonna start.

    what do you want to do with your life and how aer you going to go about achieving this?

    me? i want to join Swat in my younger years, then retire and have a gaming cafe in my older ones when i have kids and i want to actually live.

    the plan to get there is;

    1, work 2 jobs with gf working 2 aswell, for 2 years to get some back money saved up to just pack up and move to the us...
    2, the reason is then ill be 21. i want to get into the police young.. cos otherwise ill miss my shot. and i refuse to go to a country where i would be considered a child. after being an adult already for a year here.
    3, buy a small apartment in PA (dont know where yet)
    4, do the police thing, and try my best to get on swat. before anyone says how hard it is etc. i know i can do it.. and ill be damned if your gonna tell me different.
    5, when me and my fiancee person decide to settle down officially (im estimating around 36 odd, when ill be past my swat prime anyway...) ill retire from police work, and open my own bar/gaming cafe and then ill get old.. watch my children grow up and yeah <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->


    and i know lots of things could affect it. but you gotta have faith ya know?

    so share with the nsssss'rs whats your future plans? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    My friend is a SWAT sniper and long time hunting buddy (my dad taught him how to shoot)

    If you want I can ask him for his email address if you want to get a first hand account of what it is like.

    You mentioned that you live or will live in PA which is why I mention this as we both live in SE PA.
  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    Wizard check your pm's mate i would like that alot..

    and yeah, i can do it Davis i know it is hard, but i can...

    p.s aside from the stupid comments for which i say (stupid **** bastards)

    this thread is really interesting... its 'inspiring' to hear peoples dreams...
  • CMEastCMEast Join Date: 2002-05-19 Member: 632Members
    Thanks <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> /me bows

    If you just want the serious bit then go up to about 45, I got corrupted <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-CMEast+Nov 19 2004, 11:05 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CMEast @ Nov 19 2004, 11:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Thanks <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> /me bows

    If you just want the serious bit then go up to about 45, I got corrupted <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    about 45? so does that include the supermodel or not?
  • CMEastCMEast Join Date: 2002-05-19 Member: 632Members
    Well its certainly an ambition <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    I would actually prefer to fall in love, marry and spend the rest of my life with the same women but if I'm being realistic then the chances are it wont happen... in which case you may as well do it with a supermodel <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <b>concretely planned stuff</b>

    2004 07 17: enlisted in the USMC for 03 field
    2005 06 05: graduate high school
    2005 06 27: go to MCRDSD, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, get my **** handed to me for three months
    2005 09 2_: graduate boot camp
    2005 10 __: go to to the Marine Corps' School of Infantry

    <b>the "lifer" future</b>

    2005-2006: go to Iraq, see combat
    2007 onward: indoctrinated into/recruited for some type of specops group
    eventually: become a high level NCO and organize/assist in strategizing efforts in whatever conflicts the USMC will face.

    there are a few other futures i'd like to see but they're not as well thought out as that one.
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Redford is still right though. Learn a lesson from the greatest military tacticians throughout history and keep a plan handy for when (not if) your original plan doesn't work out exactly the way you had planned. You'll thank yourself.
  • BirdyBirdy Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16825Members, Constellation
    The same thing I do every night Moquiao. Try to take over the world! <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Birdy+Nov 20 2004, 03:36 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Birdy @ Nov 20 2004, 03:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The same thing I do every night Moquiao. Try to take over the world! <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    moron.


    ziq im glad your plans are going well so far...
  • AmbassadorAmbassador Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13942Members
    Going to become a movie producer.

    To do that I'm going to the University of Southern California. After I graduate, I've got a job setup at Austin Studios in Austin, Texas. After that we'll just have to see.
  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    <!--QuoteBegin-SoulSkorpion+Nov 19 2004, 08:55 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SoulSkorpion @ Nov 19 2004, 08:55 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I want to make games. That's why I got into programming, and why I'm doing Computer Science. It'll take a while, though - I need more homegrown games under my belt first. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That was my original plan. After reading about what the games industry does to people . . . well, I think I'll be changing my major to ECE.
  • TheWizardTheWizard Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10553Members, Constellation
    edited November 2004
    Well, right now I am working to get a few positions as a project lead here. I am working to start an apprentice type program for HS students in the works.

    Eventually I plan to become a Capture manager for the company though its probably the most stressful position you can get.
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