Sigh What have you accomplished in a decade?

[fitzsteve]

I got Married & we bought our first House.
 
We've travelled about 30 countries over 4 continents.
 
I've put on and lost 4 stone in weight!  (the latter was the accomplishment it takes a lot more effort to loose it again!)
 
And recently found again a hobby I'd forgottern about, yep you guessed it!  In just the last year I have built up quite an accomplished Amiga collection from an Accelerated A600 up to a Full Fat PPC A1200
 
Now I just need to get a decent job and stop slacking off in this dead end one :hammer:
 
Steve.

[Franko]

Been a strange sort of decade for me ( well stranger than normal...)

2000 - 2001 ... Slept through most of it due to illness (must be the the only person who missed the millenium celebrations)

2001 - 2002 ... Finally received nearly a quarter of a million compensation payout from my old employer (gawd that was a good year) :biglaugh:

2003 - 2004 ... Got involved in a shoot out with the coppers (not fair they had real guns, mine was only a replica) :destroy:
2003 - 2004 ... Same year I got certified and put in a very nice mental hospital... :crazy:
2003 - 2004 ... (think that was the year the missus & daughter left, can't remember though it was all a bit of blur around that time) :confused:

2005 - 2006 ... Left the nice institution, didn't want to but they threw me back into the real world anyway, they had great pool tables they and even let me bring in one of my miggies. (the food was awful though) :sealed:
2005 - 2006 ... Moved into new nice wee house...

2007 - 2008 ... Nearly demolished my nice new wee house when I knocked out a supporting beam while refurbishing, cost me a few bob did that one (and upset the neighbours a wee bit)...

2009 - 2010 ... Still in the process of rebuilding, taking a bit longer than planned, keep stopping to feed the squirrels and mucking around with my Amigas...

This year, finally discovered the internet and of course this great site, as for the next ten years, well who knows but one things for sure life is always full of little surprises... :roflmao:

(PS:Forgot to mention, the most recent thing I did was buy an onion !!!)

[klx300r]

1- a soon to be six year old daughter and 2.5 year old son
2- started a successful business
3- bought my dream car
4- bought my first OS4.x system
5- didn't kill anyone (yet)

& too many more to list here....important thing is that we remember how lucky we are because there are alot of people in poor health and desperate situations in this world sadly

still time till the ball falls on Dec31, 2010 midnight

[Hattig]

Hmm.

It started well. I even had a Power Tower A1200. Sold that for space reasons.
Then Divorce. Moved.
Depression and scraping by with my own company until 2005.
Got a job with cheapskate employer but good social life. Developed some interesting-ish software and got up to speed again however.
Moved again to London. Better job, worse social life.
Still no Amiga. Waiting for FPGAArcade for Minimig AGA, or Natami. Nice new 24" monitor came yesterday though. Without the power cable.

[Bif]

Professionally, this was what I feel will be my hump decade. Did very well for myself creating tech for video games, reaching the peak of my career a few years ago. Certainly I am quite proud of my work there, interesting to know billions of people have probably used stuff I have contributed to. Now recently out of work. Selling my nice house and car and moving to the sticks to semi-retire and generally be lazy. Created a small human along the way.

Amiga-wise, rediscovered it a couple of years ago. Got an A4000 recently but haven't had much time to play with it. Have spent way too much time reading this board and catching up on and learning all sorts of things that I didn't know about. I kind of feel like my rekindled passion for the Amiga is where my professional career is going, which is over the hump. I initially had lots of enthusiasm for the idea of trying to help push Amiga projects forward but learning more I kind of wonder what the point of it is if fundamental OS problems won't be solved in my lifetime. Not to say I don't still enjoy reading about it and playing with it, just seems too futile to try to accomplish anything useful.

[amigadave]

Looks like you need to redefine what you consider "useful".

It can be very frustrating and self defeating to try to make the Amiga something it isn't and can never be, but there is still much that can be done and accomplished that would be considered very useful to hundreds of remaining Amiga users (including Amithlon, AROS, MorphOS2.x & AmigaOS3.x & 4.x users).  Don't lose your enthusiasm for all things Amiga by comparing it to Windows, MacOSX, or even Linux.

[coldfish]

Amigawise: sold my A1200 back in 2005ish, used emulation since.

Other:

Co-developed about 40 children's products in the first 5 years working as an industrial designer. At times intense but very rewarding.

Left that job, had a year off to take stock and explore my options, travelled, hiked, went fishing.

Last few years: Had a bit of "crisis of confidence" when I started my own freelance design operation, scraping by and dealing with clients who want everything for nothing.  Simultaneously worked in a sheet metal factory to both supplement my income and to relearn manual-arts and team work.

To present: Phased that out in favour of working with my fiancée as a web developer.  While staying busy with loads of hobby projects including; props, gokarts, arcade machines, computers, motorbikes in my free time.

Now: Learning to be happy.

[ChaosLord]

In the last 3 years I have successfully accomplished the reading of 245 AppleSpam(tm) messages on Amiga.org.