Where will you be in five years?

Or ten or twenty or . . . who knows? As evident from recent events few people can accurately foretell their own future. Things change and there are two many factors out of your control. Still among the favorite or most common questions asked during interviews, usually job interviews, is the time honored ,"Where do you see yourself in five years?" Experienced interviewees usually have a fairly well practiced answer, something which will suffice for the time. In truth no one knows. Yet there is on thing over which you do have some control. Your degree. With application and persistence you can have your degree in five years. Five years may seem like a long time, in fact, five years is a long time. Whether you get your degree or not five years will still go by. So, decide now. No matter how difficult it has been or how difficult it is becoming you will finish. You will finish, graduate and have your degree. Then when you are asked, " Where will you be in five years?" you can answer, "Where ever I am I will have my degree."