Question #1: Where do you see yourself when you're 60?

It's my least favorite job interview question:  Where do you see yourself in five years?  Heck, I don't know.  Am I supposed to know? 

But I know Marcus and I want to open a bed-and-breakfast after retirement.  So, when I'm 60, I see myself running a successful bed-and-breakfast business.

Comments

[Marcus]

Of course I see myself running that same bed and breakfast. As I recall, you will actually keep it running and I will be responsible for entertaining the guests. Leaving the real business decisions to me would be unwise!

[Uri]

I think technology will be sufficiently similar that, when I need to see myself, I will use an optical mirror.

Uri

[Evangeline]

Oh no! Don't let Marcus handle the guest entertainment! It's a recipe for debacle.

I suspect that when I'm 60 I'll still be looking for my next great passion through community ed, yearning for a date while rejecting offers, and trying to grow out my hair. Nothing ever changes.

Hey Helen-- can you make an RSS feed available for your blog?! I'd love to keep track of it through my aggregator...

[Glen]

I'm going to be an old hermit living in the mountains. The townspeople at the foot of my mountain will deliver food and supplies once a month so that they won't have to see me the rest of the time. But then, I thought you knew that :-)

[T Scott]

That's just slightly over ten years for me -- but ten years is a helluva long time. And I've never been any good at predicting even two or three years ahead. But... I think the odds are good I'll still be in Birmingham, and probably still at UAB. I'll be playing a lot more guitar.

[G Grove]

By the time I hit 60, I figure that Charlotte will have locked in some castle along the North Sea coast where I will spend my days in a delussional-state... wearing newspaper sailor hats, waving a wooden toy sword, and carrying on about how I beleive that seagulls are after my pudding.

[Phillip Bach]

I see myself standing in front of the mirror, looking at myself and thinking, "Man, I'm 60!! How did I manage to live this long?? Oh well, I don't look too bad, for 60, I suppose." Then I'll have some more coffee.

[Linda Socha]

Having just breezed by 60 and ambling on toward more unchartered territory, I confess that I am thinking I had no idea how young in being this milestone would feel....the liberating one I guess.
Aunt Linda

[Todd]

I see myself retired to a mountain home in Colorado, writing full-time and enjoying the freedom that would bring.

[Marie Ascher]

It's insane to think it but my kids will be 24 years old -- so we should be set to enjoy our "golden years." I've a similar aspiration to yours, although mine is a little gourmet shop with a rotating menu (whatever the heck I feel like!)

Wherever I am, I see a smile.

[Cynthia]

I'm 36 now, so by the time I'm 60, I hope to have finished the PhD I started 3 years ago.

[job interview questions]

Nice, but I think question is too tricky.

Thanks!