Future Plans

Kris X · Post by **Kris X** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:03 pm

(So I got the idea from the Ideal job thread, but this is a bit more detailed)

What are your plans for the future years-do you see yourself traveling? Maybe moving? Or perhaps persuing a career? Will you still be doing webcomics?

My plan is to graduate from college, during that time working on a sketch for Cirque du Soliel. I'll audition and either make it and spend 1-3 years on it or not make it and then move to Canada. I'll probably buy a apartment studio and work in writing and comicking. My income job will be photography and given the various places to do photography I'll probably work from assignment to assignment in several companies and sections. Once an established Canuck and having enough money in savings I'll go backpacking alone to Europe and just draw and enjoy the cultures around me. Hopefully by then I'll find a place to settle (Either France, London, or any UK cities). I'll keep a small apartment there and wait for a best-seller book to be published (Yeah right).

I'm not a big-buck house person, so I'm willing to starve for my dreams. If I make it big-I'll only own small places in my favorite areas....

Is this so far-fetched?

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:15 pm

It'll require some real effort, but no, it's not that far fetched.

Beth and I are looking to move to Florida sometime near the end of 2006. By then we'll probably have a kid, or one (or three - triplets run in her family) on the way.

Beyond that, we're not sure.

Harvey · Post by **Harvey** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:17 pm

Not to sound overly jaded or anything. But once upon a time, a young man had great plans. He dreamed of working for a big company, and making tons of money before quitting and starting up a liesure business in the carribbean. Money is all he'd need to be happy, and he dreamed of travelling the world seeing everything his parents didn't get to see. This is how successful people live... isn't it?

Then, he graduated school and discovered even the most detailed and elaborate plans are inconsequential, prone to the whims of destiny... easily dissipating into the ether.

Moral is, live for today... you may just be disappointed with tomorrow.

btw Kris, how was vegas?

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:18 pm

I'll still be teaching and living right where I am. Hopefully this little hobby will still be rolling along. I'm quite happy where I am, to be honest.

Akujintails · Post by **Akujintails** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:22 pm

So far my plans only go up to leaving school and going to college nyu.. I'm not much for planning ahead, I don't even know what degrees to take or what job to do nyu.

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:26 pm

Dissatisfied with the entertainment business, I will turn to male modeling. I will spend four years on the runways of NYC, Paris and Singapore. My modeling career will end abruptly and tragically when Naomi Campbell splashes me in the face with a lethal mixture of acid, Chanel #5, Diet Coke and human bile.

Harvey · Post by **Harvey** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:30 pm

Toxic wrote:Naomi Campbell splashes me in the face with a lethal mixture of acid, Chanel #5, Diet Coke and human bile.

Classic...

Akujintails · Post by **Akujintails** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:31 pm

You're not very optimistic, are you Toxic? :3

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:39 pm

Getting out of this country and moving to Ireland. Probably swallowing my pride and working as a journalist for a while. Then finding a nice niche in publishing or marketing and staying there.

I will also have a big house filled with nice boys.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:41 pm

get a job, buy another house with the money I get renting out the current one, have three kids and not get killed by some whacked out 7 foot tall guy from the future.

These are very loose plans.

PieceOfSkunk · Post by **PieceOfSkunk** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:09 pm

I'll graduate college in two years and hopefully wind up in the video game industry. In five years, I will become part of Nutcracker's harem. In six years, I will have become accustomed to the chains.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:11 pm

My ideal job? Working in my trade, then comming home, drawing comics and getting payed for that too, is it a bit too much to ask?

When would I surf the net? On job, of course.

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:20 pm

I expect to have advanced further into the deep dark depths of Michelin Tires, maybe get higher up in the communications area. I dunno. Point is, I'll work there, and collect my fat paycheque. Hopefully I'll marry Kailana after a while, and maybe I'll have more readers for my webcomic, which I fully expect to still be updating on schedule, still battling the same other 6 artists in the lazy 3x a week grind who simply refuse to lose.

That or die at 41. That sounds pretty lucrative too.

War · Post by **War** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:31 pm

Me and Merc will buy a nice old reliable car, and tour the world. I will punch a lot of people in the face.
I have a list.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:35 pm

Either be the Network Engineer at work, or working elsewhere. Penetration testing sounds pretty cool, and can pay pretty well.

Probably no more webcomicking in a couple years. At least nothing that anyone here would recognize.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:36 pm

War wrote:Me and Merc will buy a nice old reliable car, and tour the world. I will punch a lot of people in the face.
I have a list.

It's true, he does. Quite comprehensive, actually.

Harvey · Post by **Harvey** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:46 pm

Warren wrote:Penetration testing

Hehehehe... penetration... hehehe

Faceless · Post by **Faceless** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:48 pm

I plan to travel the world in two years when I have the funds... After that, I'm not sure.

War wrote:Me and Merc will buy a nice old reliable car, and tour the world. I will punch a lot of people in the face.
I have a list.

Am I on that list?

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:37 pm

Faceless wrote:
War wrote:Me and Merc will buy a nice old reliable car, and tour the world. I will punch a lot of people in the face.
I have a list.
Am I on that list?

How can he punch what you do not have?

or was that the joke? ^^;

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:18 pm

During college: work on assembling a cartoon short and/or a show pitch for graduation.

Post college: if the show pitch works, do the show. If not, try to get a job in my career of choice (animation, TV, voice acting, film, games). If can't, apply to CalArts and Academy of Art University for 2d/classical animation.