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10 years ago I was 13 and thought I would be married at 23 and have kids at 25. I am engaged at 23 and will be married at 25.

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Ten years ago I was 19, in college, living at home and studying psychology on a premed track. Very focused and driven towards my goal of becoming a physician.
Saw my future... with love, medicine and children.



Today, I am approaching 30 and I am a doctor. My days are filled with beautiful kids, although not my own...at the end of the day my apartment is so quiet! The man in my life brings me pure happiness...he is all I need. In this last decade I have learned alot. I have an appreciation for life now that I never had before. I now know the strength of the human spirit because I have seen it in action for the last 15 months in my training. I am no longer working towards a single goal, but rather living each day and taking in all of it's lessons. everyday they are there if i look hard enough. It sounds cliche' but it really isn't what you become, it is how you get there.

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10 years ago I was just breaking up with my idiot ex-boyfriend who I still swear was gay- that's another story- I thought I would have been married in a year or two and have all my kids done by 30 and live in Northport and maybe only teach part time.

Um didn't happen. Here I am turning 34 only married 3 years and not done having kids and I am still working full time. Though I LOVE my job.

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10 years ago, I was just going into high school. My biggest crisis was that my boyfriend's parents were forcing him into catholic school, so we wouldn't have class together. I kept busy by turning myself into SuzyHighSchool - I did anything and everything.

I saw myself going Ivy league, graduating early, and living the crazy single corporate NYC life in a beautiful apartment near the park.... I thought I would be a career woman, and I was never interested in having children or living in the burbs.

I met Rich 3 years later, and my world morphed into something I never expected it to. I realized that a state school was the most economical for me and my family, and I didn't want to be too far from Rich.

Fast forward to now: I'm 23 (and a half!), getting married in a year, stilllllll struggling through school because I have no idea what I want to do with my life and I've changed my major 4 times, can't wait to move to a quiet place down south, make a home, and start popping out the babies

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10 years ago I was a senior at NYU. I figured that I would be a social worker. I wasnt focused on marraige or children at all. Here I am a married teacher with a baby.

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10 years ago I was living in Long Beach with my now husband but still living life and partying.

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10 Years ago....I thought I would be in broadcasting at this point...probably working in some rural town working my way up...thought I would be married to someone I met at college by 26 and have a child by 28....


WELL got the married part down...NOT to someone I met at college..THANK GOD..changed careers (AM desperately looking for a job in my new career)and am no way having a child anytime soon

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Ten years ago I was starting my junior year at Hofstra. I was pining after someone who hardly saw me as anything more than his friend's kid sister.

At that point I was taking publishing studies classes. I expected that by 30 I would be a senior editor at a children's publisher, married and have kids.

Well, I worked in publishing for six years. It didn't work out. I am back in school to be a librarian (a career I never considered). I am married and the first baby is due in Feb.

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Ten years ago I was starting my freshman year of college. I had an intended major in accounting and no expectations of getting married. I really had no idea of what I wanted or what direction Iwas headed in. I chose accounting because my mom was an acocuntant and I had no idea that there were any other options out there for me.

Ten years later...I met my DH the first week of freshman year (September 3rd we started dating), changed my major to Human Resources and now I am specialized in compensation. I owned a co-op (didn't even know what that was 10 years ago) and will hopefully own a home and start a family in the next few years.

It's amazing where life takes you and after thinking back on these last 10 years...I can't wait to see where the next 10 takes me.

I love reading everyone's posts...this was a great thread to start!

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10 years ago I was 19 and getting out of a bad 4 yr. relationship and got my tattoo in honor that I escaped that person. I was loving Nassau Comm. College and still wondering what I wanted to be "when I grew up". Who knew that one year later I would meet my future husband.

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I was 14! I thought 24 was ooolllddd. I didnt think about 10 years away - but I dont think I saw myself getting married, or my dad and uncle dying unexpectedly. I think due to all of that I DONT look 10 years into the future - who knows what is going to happen next year?

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Ten years ago, I was 29 sitting at the same desk I am right now, renting a house with friends and having a blast.

If you asked me then what I'd be doing now, I would have said I definitely would not be sitting at this desk! I'd be a married SAHM with a couple of children. So, I'm off a couple of years.

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I was 14-I was soooo crushing on my now (husband-yikes!). He kept telling me he didnt like me and didnt want to ruin our friendship-hahhah little did he know....

I thought I would be married by 24-which I am, and be a famous actress in Hollywood-so im not there yetttt but maybe one day....

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10 years ago, i was 16, going into my junior year of HS. i was excited, getting ready for the next marching band season- LOL
i have to say, my life now is pretty much where i thought it would be. i'm married to a great guy, we own a house, and i work at a school as a speech therapist. i always knew i wanted to work at a school, just was never sure what i would be doing there- LOL
as far as kids, i have a genetic disorder that makes me unable to have kids, that i've know about since i was 5 or 6... so i always knew i was going to adopt. we're planning to do that in the next couple years... i'd like to at least start the process before i'm 30- so so far, we're right on schedule!

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10 yrs ago i graduated high school and the party began!!! i was preparing to start my freshman year at The Ohio State University....the only thought in my mind was to get the heck out of Ohio. I did not care how or why...but I had to run like the wind.

4 years later...I did!

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10 yrs ago, I was 19. I thought that I would still be living the single life waiting for Mr. Right to come along...