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Main priorities in life?

Was doing a Quidco Opinions survey today and thought I'd share this list with TSR to see what y'all think

Please bear in mind that these should be treated as stand alone achievements, try not to make the intuitive link between e.g. marriage & kids, education & career :h:

Also, besides voting for your TOP priorities, feel free to comment specifically upon on the order of them, and/or add your own, as well as the order in which you feel you are most likely to achieve them :borat:


Foo's ordered priorities:
1. Achieve educational aims
2. Get married
3. Have children
4. Buy a property
5. Achieve career goals

Foo's likely order of achievement:
1. Achieve educational aims
2. Get married
3. Have children
4. Achieve career goals
5. Buy a property
(edited 5 years ago)

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None of the above. I just want to enjoy my life. How am I going to do that if I am burdened with marriage, kids and a mortgage? I need money to pay for my Subaru.
Reply 2
Going to live in that Subaru too?
Hannah's ordered priorities:
1. Meet my life partner
2. Get back into belly dancing again
3. Finish med school
4. Get married
5. Have babies
6. Move to the arab Emirates/Southern California
7. Help rebuild my homeland (Syria). Visit displaced refugees

Hannah's likely order of achievement:
1. Meet my life partner
2. Get back into belly dancing as a career
3. Get married
4. Have children
5. Finish med school
6. Move to the Emirates/Southern California
7.) help rebuild Syria/visit syrian refugees

Foo,I thought you were abit traditional. Why do you think it's most likely that you'll have children before you marry? Kinda shocked
(edited 9 years ago)
Reply 4
Well the list is pretty capitalist normative so quite limited imo. I may answer later...
I want to achieve all of those goals. I'm going the right way to do them all too, so happy days.
Get rid of my tinnitus
Do well at uni
Make lots of money
Solve the dress enigma
Original post by queen-bee
Hannah's ordered priorities:
1. Meet my life partner
2. Finish med school
3. Get married
4. Have babies
5. Move to the arab Emirates/Southern California
6. Help rebuild my homeland (Syria). Visit displaced refugees

Hannah's likely order of achievement:
1. Meet my life partner
2. Get married
3. Have children
4. Finish med school
5. Move to the Emirates/Southern California
6.) help rebuild Syria/visit syrian refugees

Foo,I thought you were abit traditional. Why do you think it's most likely that you'll have children before you marry? Kinda shocked

are you defo starting med school this september?
Original post by welcometoib
are you defo starting med school this september?


Possibly,aye
Reply 9
No "THE life-goal" comes to my mind atm. Maybe just enjoying life?
I go with the flow
Original post by Laomedeia
None of the above.


Yeah, kinda agree. None of those things are important to me.

My priority is having happy relationships with my partner, friends and family. And achieving my best with the things I love. That does involve learning and career, but those are just necessary steps to the ultimate goal.
1. Self-replicate.
2. Die in a painless manner.
1. Don't get divorced

A step up from get married. :colonhash:
To be happy I guess, at the moment it would mainly revolve around meeting new people, get to a more advanced stage career wise, have increased freedom/independence & find a partner.
- do my degree
- get a good job (civil service or private sector)
- get married (and children after)
- learn everything I can about everything, nothing human is foreign to me.
Reply 17
I want to inherit my teacher's aikido club.
(edited 9 years ago)
To appreciate what I have and to make others happy
Reply 19
None of those. Did not vote because my priority is not on there.

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