i don't have a timeline exactly, but i know what i want in my life...i just don't know exactly when i'm gonna get it! i know i do want to have started having kids before i'm 30...but it wouldn't be the end of the world if it happened after 30. i'm only 20 so no reason to stress about it too much...but i do enjoy thinking about where i'll be in the future because i imagine it'll be great!

i am a go with the flow kind of girl...though i remember when i was 10 i thought 25 was SOOO old and you probably should have a good job and be married by then....obviously i don't think that anymore

Career-wise I'm not where I'd like to be & that's a little disappointing. But I've always assumed I would never get married (and therefore most likely not have kids) so I've never had a personal timeline.

umm not really..i envision myself becoming a mother in 3-4 yrs though. but i think thats somewhat of an educated timeline cuz i've been married for about a year now, so....it seems doable. we'll see.

I always had a timeline for my personal life, but never for my career. When I broke up with my ex, I realized I didn't need milestones set in advance. Now I do whatever sounds like fun, and keeps me from falling into the planning and not doing. I like taking my time to experience new things, but I still wish I had someone to share with.

I use to be, but not anymore. I found out the Universe does NOT follow my timeline. Also, I learned that when things DO follow my timeline, I'm less appreciative because I EXPECTED it happened. That made the event less joyous. I find that I'm more appreciative when I recieve unexpected good fortune.

With that said, I do have goals, but not a timeline for them. Well, that's not exactly true. My timeline is very broad. It's like "Before I leave this earth, I would like to have accomplished . . . " Like I said, my timeline is very loose.

I used to always think that I would be married by 25 and have a kid or two by 28. But now that I am 23 and 25 is only 2 years away I realize that that is so not going to happen lol! Not only is my romantic life a complete mess, but I am in law school so I realize that marriage by 25, baby by 28 is not even realistic. I'll be 2 months shy of 25 when I graduate and get my first real job and I need to establish my career before I can even think about a husband and some kids. So now, early 30s is starting to look a lot better to me.

In general I think that it is good to know what you want to happen in your life and to have goals, but putting it on a timeline probably isn't realistic. You never know what is going to happen in life.

I don't have a timeline. I like to think about how my future will pan out sometimes, but I tend to imagine different scenarios, and they all sound good to me. WHen I was in high school, I thought I had it all figured out. I had a steady boyfriend and everyone was telling us we'd get married, but we broke up and that's when I realized I couldn't count on a relationship and plan my life around it. Right now I'm just focusing on finishing college and applying to grad school. Husband and kids will find a way to fit in.

I have a timeline!! By the age of 25 I assumed I would be ready to settle down, have kids and be a housewife/mother.

As it happens... I am 24, about to go to graduate school to study for my MA in Social Work and although in a relationship with the guy I hope to marry... an engagement and MARRIAGE are at least two years away in my future while I finish school and we get settled in our lives.

So yeah. Turning 25 is going to be depressing when it happens in February. I need to look ahead to 26 when I will be finished with school.

My boyfriend has already said he feels that within about 5 years time the whole marriage/kids thing will have happened and we'll be living in our first bought HOME so this is my new timeline I guess. ;p

I never had a timeline until last year. I was a go with the flow kind of girl until I realized that I was becoming stagnant. So, now my 5 year plan is to finish my Master's at UGA and find a job in my field somewhere out west, preferably in the Berkeley area. When my 10 year plan goes into effect, I'll be able to get my Doctorates from UC Berkeley. There's no love life expectations in there though. I suppose I'll end up being Dr sweetpeabrina with no beau.

I think personal timelines (marriage, kids, etc) are really creepy. But for career, I think its fine. It just weirds me out that women force themselves to stick to a marriage timeline "I MUST be married by 27 and have kids by 29!" its just weird. And many of times I have seen that these are the type of women who just marry some shmuck who is not even for them, just for the sake of their timeline running out.

I have always had a timeline, which is probably not a smart decision considering that I feel that I'm already behind. I always thought I would get married young, between the ages of 20-24, and then start having kids 1-2 years after marriage but I don't think its going to happen that way, which is disappointing. I'm 19 years old, never had a super serious boyfriend, and I want to date someone at least 2 years before I marry them so I would need to find a guy right about now. Now I feel depressed. The reason I feel so much pressure, I guess, is that I would like to be a stay-at-home mom, just have a career until I have kids, and I would like to have a lot of kids while I am young. No offense to any moms out there, but I don't see myself as the kind of person who decides to start having children in their late 30s/early 40s. Thats great for some people, but I would like to be done having kids by then

with respect to my job, yes, but i try not to think about timelines for things like marriage and children

I used to have a timeline. It went like this: Engaged by 23, married by 25 and kiddos by 28...all of which involved meeting the man of my dreams. Timelines aren't a set in stone thing, it's just your ideal vision for your life...like longterm goals. I'm where I should be professionally but I never had a professional timeline...weird. I had a personal timeline but I've missed it. Just goes to show you can't always map out your life ahead of time. I still think it's good to have goals...but you've got to learn not to put a time-stamp on them.
Here is my new "time-line replacement". Fall in love, check! Get engaged, when the time is right. Get married, whenever we feel like it. Have babies, when we're both ready and want it more than anything! You have to realize your life doesn't always revolve soley around your wants, you have to consider your mates wants as well. He may want the same things as you but just not right now...and that's okay. I have patience and time to spare...so I know it's right for me to wait for him to get to where I am. No pressure, just love and support.
And in a way I still have everything I wanted, I'm in love and happy, we share a pretty bad-a$$ townhouse and we have a brand new german shepherd who is like my kid. So life is pretty great, and it's pretty great to not have any pressure right now...just relaxing and enjoying my little family is amazing!

i do have one.
with my career life I hope to have a diploma in 5 years and a great job and/or starting my own business.

I do have a boyfriend (going on 2 years now) and we do own a house and just got a puppy together. right now, honestly, I do hope he's the one. and hopefully within the next 5 years we will tie the knot (we tlalked about this already). I also plan on having all my kids before I'm 30. That's just what I want right now. I sure it will change because in most cases things don't always happen the way you plan!

I go with the flow but I most certainly have a list of things that I want done by a certain time period, ie "I wanna be married before I'm 30", "I want to go to Paris before I have kids" etc.

Timelines... hehehehe.
Life is too unpredictable for that.

I actually never really had any kind of timeline, but now I have to have one because of my family's financial situation, and I have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life. It scares the crap out of me every time I think about it. I really wish I had one now

The only timelimes I set for myself are financial, and these are set up for purposes of discipline. For example, pay off such-and-such credit card by this specified date. Other than that, nope! I do try to perform regular checks on my personal and professional life. "Am I content, happy? Am I doing everything I can to maximize my potential? Am I healthy? Do I enrich the lives of others?" More subjective things...

...I suppose I dabble more on the existential side of life rather than what is measurable. :/ Oh, but I L-O-V-E lists. "Due dates" on those are generally open-ended.

yup I'm one of them. By now I should have had a perfect boyfriend whom I would have spend the rest of my life with and getting ready for my MCATs.
None of the above is happening :'(

Yes, I do, but only for my personal life. And it's more nature's timeline than mine... I want kids by 35, and I just hope hope hope I get that lucky.

Yes, I do, but only for my personal life. And it's more nature's timeline than mine... I want kids by 35, and I just hope hope hope I get that lucky.