<p>To retire at 35, you must work your butt off during those 10-15 years.</p>
<p>Considering CCer’s ‘procrastinatious’ nature, it will be as rare as a flying elephant. :D</p>
<p>It’s funny how most people here want to change the world for the better.
Me, Id rather work towards a position to do something horrible, like cause financial, environmental, and cyberspace disasters, and be remembered as a tyrant and someone akin to any one of the world dictators. That way when I go to the afterlife I can look down on earth and know that I have struck fear in the souls of others.</p>
<p>Jk Thats horrible, I’d never do that, but I do want to put the message out there since there are people who have such a fantasy here on cc, but they just don’t talk about it… I have a dream and aspiration to improve the financial life of others by being teaching consumers how to avoid debt and how to live smartly. My aspirations are to build and design a small yet one of the most efficient homes to my style, to a style which my future wife can enjoy and to save up wealth to rebuild a disaster site.</p>
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Yeah, I missed this one. However, this was a response to my post which clearly stated that I would like to have the ability to retire by 35, not actually retire. In any case, the mention of a Caribbean island purchase should lead one to assume that the comment is sardonic.</p>
<p>I will be struggling to get tenure at 35. >:</p>
<p>^ But once attained, life will be quite enjoyable.</p>
<p>Right now, as my senior year looms ahead, all I can think about is getting into college - and a good one. But I have realized that beyond those aspirations, I want to become a doctor and save the world from the corruptibility of disease, sickness, and bad health. It’s not your “let’s cure cancer”, but it’s meaningful and personal.
Before I can do that, I would desperately like to get into NYU 
then a good medical school.
That’s eight years right there.</p>
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<p>You are acting like wanting to be able to toy with the idea of retiring at 35 isn’t as chichi and meretricious as simply wanting to retire at 35. These are, without doubt, both uniformly ludicrous and pretentious.</p>
<p>I would like to see the world changed by the sparking of a revival. I would like to see people in multitudes, in America and all over the world, turn to Jesus.</p>
<p>As for my aspirations, I’d like to get a stable and content/happy family and to be able to support it.</p>
<p>Go to a university with my beloved one,and see what I’ll become in the USA.
After my graduation,work for a big company to accumulate experiences.
Then,1. Looking for a better position
or 2.estabelish my own brand
I love fashion,I love my work,I love being the best.But most of all,I want to be happy.And that requires me to have someone destined.
Salary does count a lot,but it doesn’t worse my devoting all my time on it.</p>
<p>Travelling with my family every year is what I promised to myself.</p>
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Pretentious? Perhaps. Ludicrous? Not really. Plenty of people who succeed in the BB -> HBS/SBS -> HF/PE tract have that kind of money. Notice that none of the posters have adamantly claimed that this will happen, only that such a scenario is a dream/aspiration. I see nothing wrong with that.</p>
<p>Change the world. Overhaul the general financial system to avoid more breakdowns of economies that we’re witnessing now. Turn my country into a corruption-free country. Be the first person to win the Nobel Prize in both Economics and Peace. Maybe even Literature too!!! It’s a dream. It’s not going to happen, but nobody said I can’t try!!! :D</p>
<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>My name’s Kristin and I’m about to be a college senior. I’m absolutely not trying to hijack this awesome thread, but I thought you might be curious to know “What could happen in 4 years, after I’ve done some work on these ambitious plans of mine?” so I figured I’d share a little with you.</p>
<p>My high school idea to change the world was pretty vague–I wanted to do something to make a difference by serving others (guess I wanted room for interpretation). I figured the best way to do that would be to get a sweet scholarship to my dream school (at the time, University of Virginia), go onto medical school, take a few years off to run free clinics in a foreign country, then return back home to set up a practice and start a family.</p>
<p>Step 1: sweet scholarship to dream school. That one was almost a check–I ended up an alternate for a full ride to UVA, and ended up at my last choice safety school and thought I was absolutely doomed. Boy, I couldn’t have been more wrong. I’m here now, at my home state’s big public university, and absolutely couldn’t be happier. Lesson learned–you can make it work where ever you go, but you won’t believe that until it actually happens to you. </p>
<p>Step 2: figure out a way to start making a difference by serving others–this one came in a big way at a somewhat unexpected time. I decided to go on a medical mission trip to Costa Rica during my sophomore year of college and it absolutely changed my view on medicine, for the better, likely for the rest of my life. My trip sparked an even greater desire to devote at least some of my time to the people who are most often overlooked, and I couldn’t be happier. Lesson learned–inspiration comes when you’re least expecting it, so don’t be afraid to just sit back and enjoy yourself. Something great will happen to you eventually, and when it does, run with it. </p>
<p>Step 3: find a great idea, run with it–Using Costa Rica as my inspiration, I continued working with underprivileged groups of people in my home town. I fell into this role of attending doctor visits with clients to make sure they understood what was going on. My friends thought it was a cool way to volunteer, so I decided to start a student group of volunteers who worked like I did, teaching people with poor health literacy how to be better consumers of health care. My school, for reasons I still don’t understand, refused to sponsor it. So I decided to appeal to the state, and now we’re recognized as a nonprofit corporation statewide. I’ve presented the model for my organization to health literacy professionals across the nation and within my state. I’m proud to say that it’s taking off beyond my wildest dreams, and I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes. Lesson learned–when you know you have a great idea, find a way to make it work.</p>
<p>Future steps involve going to med school (working on applications right now) and serving in other countries (which should happen within the next five years, fingers crossed)–I’ll keep you posted, if you’re interested.</p>
<p>Bottom line: you guys have some great stuff here. It’s easy to get derailed by things that seem like failures, but do your best to find that silver lining. Had I given up when I couldn’t find a way to make my dream school work, I probably would not have done a tenth of the things I’m most proud of today. All it takes is a little perseverance and some creativity.</p>
<p>Keep going! A famous Italian explorer’s motto was “step by step you reach the top”–I’m pretty sure that applies to each of you.</p>
<p>All the best,
Kristin</p>
<p>Combining the realistic interests in post #11 with the random dream in #19…</p>
<p>Cheap school -> accounting major + CS minor or CS major + math minor</p>
<p>Get into either IT consulting or internal audit and travel 75+%. Live in hotels and sleep in the office when at “home”. Work way too hard, but that’s okay. Gradually transcend into a more managerial role on projects. After 20 years, experience a breakdown and cut back on the travel/hours. Gradually learn to live with a desk job.</p>
<p>^^Thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>Ahhh, congrats! A featured thread!</p>
<p>kristen is seriously cool</p>
<p>now I’m thinking more, I kinda just want to be happy but I also want to work with kids. I think the funnest thing I’d like to do is somehow take the expensive things like robotics to kids that can’t afford it (like I can’t) but I have no idea how that’d work.</p>
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<li><p>I want to find a way to increase human lifespan. I’m into biomedical engineering research on artificial organs, bacteria, serums, etc that may induce regeneration/increase in human lifespan. That’s a HUGE goal in life</p></li>
<li><p>Create viable robots to be used in war/military instead of humans (came after watching Iron Man and Gundam Anime XP)</p></li>
<li><p>Eliminate racism…I wish I can see interracial couples EVERYWHERE in the world.</p></li>
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<p>^ I don’t like your 1. Sorry but I don’t figure people ought to live so long as we do, it’s unneeded except if the organs are used for the younger in accidents.</p>
<p>But we should get together for 2, I call dibs on wearing those pointy bada$$ glasses as we build though.</p>
<p>Actually I think I’d like to help build robots that would go into space, much more practical than sending humans who could actually die and get hurt by radiation.</p>
<p>I would really just like for robots to be much more mainstream and less of something just for the rich, like what ford did with autos.</p>
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<p>You also make it sound like its impossible to retire at 35. Its a wish that I hope to pursue, especially because I mostly have the resources to do so. My dad retired at 39, he worked for a BB firm and moved on to HF. It’s not impossible at all when you’ve already established connections good enough to land you a job at GS and straight to a HF without going to bschool. Don’t call me idiotic when you don’t know anything. I said I want to retire from banking at 35 and live a comfortable life teaching, never ever said that I’m going to sit on my *** and eat chips and drink beer. When you have the salaries of a BB associate/VP/MD, and work till 35, you certainly have a good enough salary to retire.</p>
<p>Maybe if I bolded Goldman Sachs, Harvard Business School and Hedge Fund you won’t make the same mistake yah?</p>
<p>Lucky, do you happen to be a TTGL fan ;o?</p>