What are your aspirations in life?
- To live a healthy and meaningful life
- To travel everywhere that is safe
- To work and live in Asia
- [Possibly] Invest in real estate
What do you want to be doing in the next 5 years? 10 years?
- In less than 6 months from now providing there are no visa issues, I will have moved to China to work at a university as a foreign expert.
- 3 years: have taken it steady and adapted to Asian culture as well as travelled to surrounding provinces and countries during my holiday periods. Then to move on to the next stage:
5 years -> to open a company in China, most likely an export company of a product I cannot disclose this early.
Do you have any academic or professional aspirations?
- To continue studying reading and written Mandarin Chinese. And most importantly develop my spoken to fluent.
How will you achieve those aspirations, goals and objectives?
- To continue eating healthy and exercising multiple times per week. To improve, I need to develop good sleeping schedules.
- Providing there are no hiccups, moving to China to work will happen in 6 months +/-
- To develop learning Mandarin, I will continue to learn little and often until I move, then I will join an intense study class whilst I am there to focus on learning more each week. At the moment I know enough to get by and negotiate prices etc, but I would like to eventually have meaningful conversations with others.
- As for my export company I can research and guess as much as I like, but until I am there with both feet on the ground, I will not focus on it too much.
- As for real estate, that would likely be my ambition and drive if and when I return to the UK. This is more of a long term life plan. I will only do this if I intend to live for the rest of my life in the UK.
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Interested in some of the responses so far. We have a good mix of people on Sythe and its great to see those with ambition. A lot of my hard work ethic came from e-commerce, including ebay, dropshipping, amazon, and virtual goods communities such as here.