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how has this decade been for you?

post #1 of 57
1/1/10 at 5:37pm
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have to say, this decade has been pretty good for me. 3 kids, a new start in a new country, very happy with the way I live. no complaints pretty much, had a few bad years in the middle, but all in all, has been pretty good.

how about you?
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post #2 of 57
1/1/10 at 5:58pm
GT, the first part of the decade was rough but the second half has been good. It looks like the start of this one will be good too. Some of my longer term plans are starting to come to fruition so if nothing else things could be real interesting.
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post #3 of 57
1/1/10 at 6:00pm
graduated elementary in 2000, highschool in 2004, then finished secondary school and started my first full time job. all in 10 years. dam time goes by. i remember when i was 16 thinking 20 year olds were so old. i cant even imagine what is going to go on for me in the next 10.
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post #4 of 57
1/1/10 at 6:21pm
It started well and continued to get better. Lots of pinchable moments. I feel very fortunate.
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post #5 of 57
1/1/10 at 6:24pm
Mixed for me. Changed jobs in 1999 so had great promise at the beginning of the decade. While the job has been fine, hasn't been the upward opportunity I'd originally hoped. That was OK because we were really more focused on my wife's career. Left her prior firm and started a new firm with two other women. Very financially lucrative which permitted a very nice lifestyle. Lots of travel and toys.

Ended the decade with a divorce. Now feel like I'm really in a transition. Exciting. Having fun so far.
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post #6 of 57
1/1/10 at 6:28pm
It's been pretty good. Can't complain.
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post #7 of 57
1/1/10 at 6:34pm
The last decade was basically leaving childhood and entering real adulthood for me. My first girlfriend was in 2000. I finished HS, finished college, got a full-time job. Worked, and loved being all on my own in a big city, with cash to burn and girls to meet. Worked, started disliking it. Just at the end of the decade, over the last two years, I really started asking myself what I want to do with my life, what my purpose is. Broadly, the last decade pushed me through the trials, tribulations, and world experiences to take me from being a boy to being a self-guided man on an internalized level. I believe the next will allow me to build on that foundation and shape my life more clearly and in line with my beliefs, on an external level. The end of the decade was actually a disconcertingly apt divider leading into the next "book" of my life.
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post #8 of 57
1/1/10 at 6:35pm
New Year's '99-00 - grandmother's funeral New Year's Eve
New Year's '09-10 - party, blowjob at the stroke of midnight

This decade is bound to be better.
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post #9 of 57
1/1/10 at 6:39pm
'04: graduated from Princeton Law '09: made partner at Cravath Pretty good.
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post #10 of 57
1/1/10 at 8:09pm
Generally awful.

Thankfully, the kids are doing OK and the finances are intact and going in the right direction. So the big picture will eventually be fine.

Still, I could do with a break.
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post #11 of 57
1/1/10 at 8:15pm
Graduated from college, then law school, into not one, but two shitty job environments. Moved/lived in 4 different cities. Worked a couple of years doing stuff I enjoyed, but had no future. I'm 30 now, and it's time to grow up.
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post #12 of 57
1/1/10 at 8:58pm
This decade I went from a kid to a man. I think I ended up in much more of a traditional family man situation than I expected 10 or even 5 years ago, and also in much more of a regular type job than I expected for how ambitious my plans were. But I think I am well on my way to becoming the kind of man I would have looked up to 10 years ago, and my life is good overall, so that's really all I can ask for.
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post #13 of 57
1/1/10 at 9:59pm
its 2010 and im not starting univ until the fall of this year, im going on 24, it could be better
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post #14 of 57
1/1/10 at 10:01pm
Not awesome.

Got my first real job out of ad school at a teeny-tiny ad agency with a boss who was entrenched in the old ways because he was a big shot back then. He still smoked cigars. In the office. Anyway, couldn't get out of it until the place closed down in 2008, so that's 8 years at one place. Spent all of last year freelancing off and on, and only recently got another full time gig. The place is pretty cool, but it's such a change that I'm still adjusting.

Fingers crossed this is the beginning of big things...
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post #15 of 57
1/1/10 at 10:57pm
I have to say this decade went terribly wrong for me, but I learned a lot. Gotta take everything from the last 10 years, and turn it into a huge positive.
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