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Ask HN: What is your goal in life?
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#2I ask this because honestly, I don’t know, and that’s kind of interesting. I’m in college now, and I want the basics: to have a good job, be married. But other than that, the future is kind of vague and uncertain. But that’s ok.
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#3My goal is to live the life I want to live knowing that what I want will change over time. My biggest drive right now is to gain financial independence through both lowering my cost of living, a high savings rate and continuing to grow my income. I work full time as a software developer but have also started a business on the side with a partner. That is part of my strategy of increasing income. Recently, I've realized that business, while bootstrap profitable, is not going to grow as fast as I want so I am going to start another business (and I expect this cycle will continue until I reach FI -- it may continue beyond that as it is fun).
So my goal is overall happiness with financial independence being a key part of it. I should note that I do not strive to be excessively frugal -- just cut where it doesn't impact myself or my partner. I've also elected to have children and I think that contributes positively to my overall happiness although it can be expensive and they can take a lot of time (so I think that is very much an individual choice).
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#4Work for an space exploration company, and work on software for flight guidance or testing. Currently I have mostly web dev experience. Being self-taught, unemployed and with my experience being snubbed it's gonna be a very tough road ahead.
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#5I view life in 1 year increments. For this year, I aim to become fitter and healthier.
On the professional front, I would like to switch to a different team and seek new challenges!
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#6I view life in 1 year increments. For this year, I aim to become fitter and healthier. On the professional front, I would like to switch to a different team and seek new challenges!
That’s a great idea. Makes it easier to turn far off dreams into immediate and actionable goals.
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#7My goal is to live the life I want to live knowing that what I want will change over time. My biggest drive right now is to gain financial independence through both lowering my cost of living, a high savings rate and continuing to grow my income. I work full time as a software developer but have also started a business on the side with a partner. That is part of my strategy of increasing income. Recently, I've realiz…
Yeah, FI is a huge one. But it’s tricky - at the end of the day it’s just a means to more life goals. If you won the lottery today, that’d mean you’d have to come up with a new life goal for tomorrow.
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#8I view life in 1 year increments. For this year, I aim to become fitter and healthier. On the professional front, I would like to switch to a different team and seek new challenges!
That’s a great idea. Makes it easier to turn far off dreams into immediate and actionable goals.
100%, I find it hard to take a marathon approach and keep chipping away. Keeping the immediate goals in mind with an overall path to follow keeps me motivated more!
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#9To build a lighthouse.
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#10To not be forgotten.