Where do you see yourself in 5 years time

I am sitting in one of the Starbucks in Penang, sipping a cup of coffee while writing this blog (2nd April) - Li Houng

I receive this title on 29th of March in my English class. Seriously, it took me more than 3 days to figure out what and how I should write about this blog. Be frank to you, I am a person who don’t even know what I am going to have for lunch tomorrow. I am a kind of person who lives for now and without any future speculation. Well, I think this is a good chance for me to plan for my future which allows me to see where I am in 5 years’ time.

Let’s see how my life will change in 5 years’ time. I believe my life will have a real big different than now. I definitely will have a full time job in 5 years’ time. Actually, there are a lot of fastest and shortest ways that can make you to become a millionaire easily, as long as you are dare to take the risk (the risk of losing a lot of money $). So, 5 years later, people who dare to take risk will probably become a millionaire when they are 28 years old. But me, I am not a risk taker. I will only be a worker who receives moderate income per month. I don’t mind to work like a cow with moderate income, because to me, the money which earn easily will go easily too as people said easy come, easy go.

I see myself working in a multinational company in Penang, it may be Intel, it may be Agilent or it may be others as long as the company can offer me better benefits. I love Penang so much until I believe I still will be here in 5 years’ time. Now, let’s narrow down the scope as there are many departments in a MNC that I can work in. I definitely will be one of the employees who work in Human Resource Department. I am not an admin, not a secretary but a very successful manager in that department. From the first time I came into contact with the Human Resource subject I have made up my mind to work in this department or in this field. I found interesting to study HR and I scored well on this subject too. My core skills will lead me to be a successful manager who can handle both in my own job and also retain good relationship with colleagues.

I will be a typical office worker who work 5 days per week. My life seems to be tougher than those who earn money in a way of shortcut. Fortunately, I am not a lazy person when come to work, I am actually a person who works compulsively, in a simple word, I am a workaholic. So, my lives will probably surrounding by work only during that time. Other people’s perception is, a life which surrounding by only work is called lifeless but I do really enjoy this kind of lifestyle. I believe, during weekend I will sit in a café, sipping a coffee like what I am doing now with my working laptop. I will work from café instead of work from home. In order to avoid living “lifelessly”, I will balance my life with travelling to different countries or places. In 5 years’ time, I will be a person who already travelled at least 3 countries in a backpacker style. I may travelled to London, Venice, and Paris and so on to the place that I would like to go.

I am not sure you heard about World Vision or not. It is a Christian organization working to help communities lift themselves out of poverty. You can join this organization, doesn’t matter what religion you are, by sponsor the poor children with certain amount of money. They usually focus on children. They provide shelter, food and also financial assistance to children who need help. In 5 years’ time, I believe the number of children I will sponsor is around 5. You may curious about how much I am going to sponsor per child. Actually, in a group of 12, the amount that I am going to sponsor for a child is just RM60 per year. So, in my financial condition, I believe I can sponsor around 5 children in 5 years’ time.

Check out the link below to know more about World Vision, let every child free from fear.

http://www.worldvision.org/

Now, you may wonder about my marital status. Most of my friends said that 28 years old is the most suitable age to get married. I agree with them, but I won’t get married in 5 years’ time. So, I will remain single but still attach to my current loved one. There are many reasons why I see myself don’t get married yet. One of the reason is I believe I still not yet or unable to achieve my own dreams. What is my dream? One of my dreams, which actually not a big one is I wanted to go New Zealand for working holiday. I want to stay at there for at least 6 months. Living at there and experience the different culture and lifestyle. But, I will have too many commitments in my life then until it restrain me from achieving my dream. So, I wish to get married only after I achieve my dreams. If you have same interest like me ( working holiday in New Zealand) you may check out the link below:

http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/stream/work/workingholiday/

In 5 years’ time, I will become a successful person no matter in workplace or in my life. I will be a successful person who already bought a house, living happily with my family under the same roof. Other than this, I will also buy a car with my own saving. So, this is where I see myself in 5 yeas’ time.

What are you going to do after graduate?

Why are you studying this program?

Do you ever think about what are you going to do with this qualification?

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5 YEARS’ TIME?

Oh gosh! I really hate these kinds of questions because I think there is no need to tell everyone about my future. Moreover, I never ask for yours, why you keep asking for mine?

Doubting…

In fact, to answer these questions make me feel annoying and sometime feel a little bit of stress. However, these feeling tell me that I am actually trying to escape from the reality. I feel stress because I really don’t know what am I going to do in the future, needless to say five years, even for next hour. (But now I know I will be writing this blog for my next hour…)

This does not mean that I do not have ambitious. When I was in primary school, I wish to be a teacher. I changed my mind when I came to secondary school. I like calculation. I wish to have further study for Mathematic until Master or PHD level. But what I am doing now doesn’t in the same direction of my ambitious. I am currently final year student for Degree level in business management. Hmm…There must be some reasons. Yes, it is! Before I came to this private college, I was in Form 6 for only one year – the Lower 6. My experience in this year caused me to change my mind again because I found that the Mathematic in this level is hard for me; it’s two or three level harder than those I learn during secondary school. So, I don’t think that I am able to handle those in Master level, don’t even think about the PHD level. At last, I get lost. My ambitious become unclear after that. I once wanted to open a bridal shop, but also have wanted to open a unique café. Recently, when I receive this blog title from my lecturer, something came to my mind. “I WISH TO OWN A BRIDAL SHOP ATTACHED WITH A CAFÉ!”

My name is Lin Wei. Some people will call me Ailsa because I named myself in Facebook as this name. This year I am 23 years old, and it’s my last year for study life. I should cherish this year very much! As people said study life is always enjoyable than working life. Most probably I will be working after this year, maybe in a HR Department of a company or work in a bank. However, in five years’ time, I don’t think that I still working.

Firstly, after 5 years, I will be a mother of one or two children, and of course a wife of my rich husband. This will be a happy family. I will educate my children with the most appropriate way. When they are doing the right thing, praise them or give them present if only when u think it is needed. On the other hand, when they are doing the wrong thing, give some appropriate punishment so that they can learn from that. They will not behave like most of the children I met now – like a boss in the house, being coddled, impolite, materialistic. I always believe in this statement, “Like father like son”. Parent attitude always reflected from their kids. Life is miserable with kids around? I disagree. The key is how you educate them.

Besides, as a mother, as well as a wife, my responsibility will be taking good care of my children and husband. I love cooking and baking. Most probably, kitchen will be my workplace in five years’ time. I will be enjoying with prepare meals for my family. I will also be the only housekeeping staff and secretary in the house as well as my children’s driver. Oh! It sounds tiring but I am happy to serve them. The deepest desire of my heart is still want to have a happy family.

Maybe if my five years working life allow me to save some capital to open up a business, I am going to make my wish come true – open up a bridal shop that attached with a café. Or maybe my husband is rich enough to invest in it. However, here comes a problem. If I would to open up a business, I will lose my time to get along with my kids. Do I really need to have a choice between them? Maybe I can hire someone to help me look after this business so that I can spend more with my family but is it what I wish? I believe that I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

This is where I see myself in five years’ time from an optimistic view. Unfortunate things may also happen to me within these five years. After five years, my marital status will change from in a relationship to single. I will still working like a cow in an office taking the same salary like past five years. I will threat myself with luxury goods or delicious food once a month when I get salary. I will go for a travel with friend when I get my bonus. Maybe I will found another Mr. Right of my life after five years and get married with him two years later at the age of 30. Oh, no! Marry at the age of 30 is my limit.

To be honest, I am the kind of person who never thinks to be a successful woman. No matter how many five years, my life will be as simple as it can be. My husband will be the strongest support in every aspect of my life. I could said that I will 90% rely on him and only 10% on myself. You can’t judge me as useless. Every person has their own living style and this is mine. Not to say that I cannot be independent, it’s just that I choose to be dependent.

A life doubter-Yeeearn

As time goes by, I realized that I am no longer a kid anymore and there are so many dreams I want to achieve and more. It brought me silence when I see the figures on my birthday cake even though I am not old enough to die, but then I know it is the golden time in my life to working out and make my dreams come true. If I was asked about what I see myself in five year time, basically I hope I am still alive because a lot can happen even in just a minute. In five year time, I can be successful, a failure, or dead. Therefore, if I was blessed and still being healthy and available, I want my life to be as enjoyable as I could. Even though I’m not born to be rich, but I want my parents and my life be easier and free from financial limitation. I would like to experience those lives when people do not have to look at the price tag. Anyhow, the reality hits me so hard because there is no fairness can be conducted in every single life. Hence, a five year plan has to be developed because, “Rome wasn’t built in a day”.

A good plan may differs in types of achievement, such as goals in Career, Bucket List, Financial, Family, and Personal. If one man do not have desires, he could not really plan a five year plan without knowing his life plan. It will ends up writing five chapters of a story without deciding the story’s plot. After all, it took me some time to figure out what I want to be in my future. Do I want to be as wealthy as Bill Gates and owes a good social status? Or am I just happy enough with the way I am now? I have a lot of desires as I am slowly growing as an adult, it makes me upset somehow when I realize what I have lack of. I should just stop being a trash and start deciding, and develop plans for my own.

In five year time, I wish I was working with passionate and doing what I love; love what I am doing at the same time. I wish my job is to make this world a little bit better, a little hope I can bring to peoples. I hope I am a capable and reliable working partner to my company and colleagues, I hope my knowledge never stop growing. I want to be trained as a professional, someone who is confident with what she is doing and gain respect by people. I know I am a service provider, I love making customers happy and I really want to prove those bad customer service provider wrong. In today’s society, no one wants to spend their money on a “black” face or what we called bad customer service. No matter what business sector I am working in the future, I will never forget how important attitude and etiquette of being as an adult.

I am a very thankful person, I love my parents with my whole heart. This is because they are the most important person in my life that makes me so grateful and they are the main reason of my happiness. My parents always give me what I wish to have, even though they never had enjoy their life before. I swear I will do everything just to make them happy and proud of me, in terms of love, money, personal achievement and so on. In five year time, I want to be debt free and own my own house and car. I want to call my parents for holidays and birthdays and make them free to see the world together. I know exactly they would not be there forever as time passes so quickly, and I want to make their end of life time as enjoyable as it could be. To be able to do that, I must work hard and pay as much toward debt and do savings for passport and vacation. In order to be debt free, I must be in the middle to owe less than 10k in debt and start house payments as soon as possible.

Other than that, once I was 27 years old, I wish I am dating the correct man who loves me more than I do. I wish he is the reason to make me smile from my heart and he loves me just the way I am. A man who loves my parents and our kid that we going to have in the future, FOR EXAMPLE like DAVID BECKHAM

. Maybe it is not necessary to be married so soon, but I hope I’d be happily married and raise good kids. And my new formed family will be on good terms with my parents and sibling’s family members just to form a bigger picture of a happy family. The reason I want a correct man to marry with is because I want my life to be secured and my parents don’t have to worry about me anymore. I might not a ~~big dreamer~~, but I want to be a responsible daughter, a capable working partner, a lovely and beautiful wife or girlfriend, and one day an understanding mother for my children.

“Every man dies, not every man really lives.” stated by William Ross. Away of being something great to others, I want to be a better me in five year time. I hope I have the time to chill on the beach, having glasses of wine and physically fit all the time. I will follow a diet plan, to make sure I am not putting too much weight due to the reason I love food so much. In future, I see myself as a queen, but a queen who owns respects of others instead of fears. Last but not least, I wish I could learn a new language, go skiing and diving, fly in a hot-air balloon and be a patient person in five year time. Instead of seeing myself driving a Maserati while wearing Christian Louboutin heels, I wish I am happily living in my dream house with my family members called HOME SWEET HOME.

Where I see myself in 5 years’ time?--Robben Siah

Before I begin talking about my future five years, I wish to have an intro about myself. I am Robben, 24 year old and I come from Penang. I’ve been raised up in a single parent family as my parents divorced when I was four. I have a brother which I have not seen him for almost ten years. All along these years, I considered myself as the only child and I lived along with my mother who is the greatest mum in the world. When I was young, my mum went overseas for job opportunity with higher pay. So I have to live with my mum’s siblings, growing up in different families. Growing up, my mum alternated between working two and three jobs at the same time. It was easy to see it wasn’t easy. Since childhood, I told myself not to take the similar path as my parents, I want to have my own complete family one day when I grew up. Until the present, I am still working towards achieving my dreams and I believe that day will come soon.

Where would I be after five years? Perhaps I might be telling you, I want to gain a lot of money, pursue wealth, status and happiness through material. Yet this is not realistic. I do not wish to have this kind of attitude for my entire life. I have read about one quote showing the importance of goal setting in life, here goes the quote: “You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.” (Zig Ziglar). For me, I have set my life goal and my main objective is to strive towards in achieving my goals. Bear in mind, goal setting is the primary step toward successful goal achievement. I set goals in life to ensure long term success.

On my previous semester, one of my lecturer required every student to come out with a picture to show “the difference of yourself before and after five years”. The picture became my daily motivation because it reminds me on my five year plans and I am achieving my dream step by step. I have a contented life right now where I am a full time retail associate and also a part time student taking two-year business management degree courses. My friends and families have always asking me if I ever feel exhausted of this kind of hectic lifestyle. My answer is no, I never regret choosing to work and study at the same time. In fact, it might be a little fatigue and stressful sometimes. But I always take it as challenge in life and face it optimistically.

I dream to get married and build my own happy family after five years. I will finish work at six o’clock and get home on time to dine with my dearest family. I always have the picture of me after work whereby I will drag and place my office bag on the corner of living room, lay and relax myself comfortably on the sofa. At this moment, my pretty wife will be preparing dinner in the kitchen and reminding me to go for shower with her sweet soft voice. We will clean up the dining room together after meal and talk about the story happened on that day. Sometimes, we will spend time communicating about workplace, politics, gossips and also future. Moreover, I plan to bring my whole family travelling to different parts of the world each year. That’s how my life going to be after five years. How wonderful it is if all of these come true one day.

I will become a successful man five years later. My working life as a successful manager is I will reach Uniqlo outlet by eight o’clock in the morning every day, switch on all the lights and computers, and open all the entrance doors. I will check and read all the emails and documents sent, update myself on the current store situation in order to make precise job arrangements and brief my staffs about important things to take note. After making arrangements, I will walk around the entire store, checking for any mistakes or incomplete tasks. All of the above are job responsibilities which should be done by a store manager. That’s how I begin my busy workplace. I always follow the principle of “Plan – Do – See” where this principle is vital to maintain the overall store performance.
Definitely, I will become one of the store manager of Uniqlo in Malaysia. Some of the people might feel that the job scope in Uniqlo is selling or promoting clothes to customers. Yet it is more than just selling clothes. We sell high quality and good services to our customers. I wish I could grab the opportunity to work in different Uniqlo outlets located at overseas such as Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and etc. By that time, I believe I would have strong mindset to take the challenge to work globally.

As short, I will work hard to transform into a better me after five years. I will boost my confidence level, master more language skills such as Japanese, and train myself to achieve more goals. I understand that if I stay in my comfort zone and afraid to make any changes right now, I will still be the same person with the same mentality after five years. Time is gold and I must treasure every moment in my life because human live only once.

When I reach the age of 29,

I will become a successful son for my mum, a proud husband for my wife, a super dad for my kids.

I will keep myself fit and healthy as I were still 24 years old.

I will gain five digit salary every month and give the best to my family.

Once again,

I will become a better me five years later.

||My working place right nowwwwwww||

Coffee shops are everywhere. On every street corner and inside the shopping mall in Malaysia. And inside each and every coffee shop is a hive of barista who don’t want to be there. Barista with dreams. Dreams large and small. Coffee isn’t their end goal as one might assume. Naturally, a lot of shops do want to hire people with coffee or food service experience. One coffee shop owner I talked to recently said he’s pretty strict on hiring people with experience because they have a feel for these things. However (there’s hope!), he said he had take someone with less experience but with a great attitude over a skilled barista with a sour personality any day. As I was looking for a job in my community, I started to get a feel of some skills to have to succeed as one. Knowing these skills is really important. I have to make sure that I am good fit so that I can enjoy the job and succeed at what I am doing, and so I get benefits on my job and I enjoy my job as an employee as well. I apply this job is because that I am in good fit and I love the environment while in my job. Attitude will affect personal quality while I am working.

[Every espresso shot is come out with different taste of the coffee, and this is the reason why I like coffee J]

Having the right skills and traits will ensure that I did the best part in barista while I enjoy my work very well. I have found some keys to make me more successful in my journey of a best barista. A coffee shop barista at least I know how to be around people. This includes being friendly and relatable. I have to engage with the customers, as well as enjoy working with my team members. These help me to improve my communication skills to be more successful in 5 years time. Be personal but also professional, realizing I am represent my company. Customers will come back to the coffee shops besides the food and drinks is good, but also when there are good services, friendly environment, get some feedback from the customers and research about what makes customers satisfied and what goes wrong when customers are unhappy. It really helps me a lot while I am always observing around and understand the situation of the customers. Become a barista not only with good coffee but also attach with a smiley face to the customers.

-This is how the environment in this cafe-

In coffee shops, I will be hired to make drinks and keep up with orders and efficient service such as faster order been made to take more opportunities and able to serve more customers. I have a high work ethic and willing to work hard. With my experience, I shall be comfortable providing quality work in a fast-paced environment, self-motivated to see and do what needs to be done around my area. Being a barista really is a lot of work, but I am willing to do it well. Cleanliness and sanitation is very important in the food industry. Having high standard of hygiene and keeping areas clean is a great train to have. Always keep yourself in clean situation will helps to level up your personal attitudes.

Latte Art by me ^

In 5 years time, I am ready to become the famous coffee master not only in Malaysia, but also in Thailand. Obviously, I am making some assumptions for this stage of barista life, but I really do think that working as a barista can work at any stage of life. From conversations I have had with my family members, my crazy friends, and some of the regular customers of mine. Every time I go to work with a kind of heart as people needed my coffee to makes their every morning so energetic. I feel that I am so useful for some people that lack of energy or motivation; I will lead them to be more cheerful with a cup of good coffee. My job can remedy without adding the stress and hours that often comes with other jobs. It also adds an element of socializing, talking with customers and catching up with co-workers. Every single moment to be with me, there is no negative energy. I will try my best and did a great job no matter what stage of life and I will just find myself behind the espresso bar again.

[Coffee hunting]

Besides, I think a degree is not only about securing a career. Its journey also lays a foundation in terms of life experience and people I meet. Sometimes people may unhappy about their choice after graduating. For me, I wanted to do more and unleash my potential creatively. I wanted a different challenge and the challenges of being a businessman no longer satisfied me. I wish that I could have my way with both careers because I may not have a strong leadership. However, I have to make a choice of securing my job with my opportunities or follow my passion doing something happy that what I had done right now.

After putting a lot of effort from learning the skills, a barista is not a cool job that many people think of it. Become a barista is not easy like you watch from the drama like “coffee price”. It is totally different from the real life. Barista need to be tough enough because every coffee you made to the customers will affect their emotion in a day. Also, barista need to deal with the customers. I have set a goal to achieve in 5 years time and I wish that I could open up a coffee shop around the world to offer the best coffee to the customers. I hope that I can become experts of the coffee and coming up with cool ideas of new coffee and the better ways to brew coffee without heats. Additionally, I wanted to be a professional barista based on my work ethic and personality that I learned from the past. I believe good attitudes and a kind and genuine character might change your life become more successful and I will never get lost in my future with all my characteristics and the skills in my life.