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I will be living next to my oldest ds and helping out with the 10 children he plans to have. Since he was little, he has said he wants 10 kids. He also plans on being a major league baseball player and he's offered to buy dh and I a fancy motorhome with his first contract so we can follow him around the country to watch his games. Sounds like we will be rather busy! :lol:

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I'll be 62 when I finish homeschooling. Hopefully I will be enjoying grandchildren by that point.

 

I have not ever intended to have a career other than homemaking since my oldest was born, but I have sort of gotten sucked into working for her business.

 

I have been helping her with making soap and milking the animals. When we first started the company, I said my goal was just to provide feed for the animals, fresh food for the family, and income producing jobs for the kids.

 

People thought I was aiming low. The way the economy and future is looking now, I'll be beyond thrilled if we can create a family business that keeps all of my children and grandchildren fed and employed.

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I think my "post-homeschooling" will come in the next 10 years. I'm already teaching PT and would go to FT. Remaining dc will go to the school I teach at. I plan to get certified over the next few years in German and Spanish and would love to teach overseas. I plan to travel, travel, travel, and get a PhD in something language-related, most likely Second Language Acquisition.

 

It sure sounds like I'm counting the days, doesn't it? ;)

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My plan was to start college this year to study nutrition or holistic medicine. We unexpectedly got dd4 instead. She takes so much time of my day, I have nothing left.

 

I work in pharmacy already, so I currently have a job. I will continue to do that I guess. I can't imagine still counting pills in 10 years, but unfortunately that is what it looks like I will be doing.

 

Trust me, the people who need the pills really appreciate it. ;)

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I am already post homeschooling but I am still a full time mom and grandma. My oldest is 28 and my youngest is 12. I'll be pretty close to my expiration date by the time all the kids are gone. I plan to clean the house (once) and then read all of the books I own that I haven't read yet. :tongue_smilie:

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I was thinking I would take up napping. :D

 

Seriously, though... I've got about 6 more years of homeschooling. I try not to think that far ahead, so I can't say I've got a "plan." I imagine that I'll have more time to do the off-farm job I really like, and I hope I'll get to a place by then where I can ditch the off-farm jobs that I really don't like.

 

I've already done the university thing, and have no interest in pursuing another over-priced piece of paper. I do have dreams, though. I'd like to jump out of an airplane. I'd like to enter a competitive snowboard tourney. Just stuff... like that.

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I was wondering if any of you have specific plans for your life after your homeschooling duties are completed.

 

Is anyone planning to return to a career or to build a new career from scratch or to further their own education?

 

I currently work out of the home, and love love love what I do.

 

I fully expect to retire from homeschooling before I do my career.

 

So my post-homeschooling plans are to keep on truckin' :D.

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Our last one starts high school as soon as we move and get settled. In 4 years we will be finished. I plan to take every craft class known to man. :D I have gotten super creative in my older age.;) I also will help with the sweet grandbabies and exercise and travel.:auto:

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I currently work out of the home, and love love love what I do.

 

I fully expect to retire from homeschooling before I do my career.

 

So my post-homeschooling plans are to keep on truckin' :D.

 

Despite having kids later in life, I found my "calling" a few years before the first baby and I've been able to keep on with variations of that as a part-time career all along. DH will probably retire earlier than some, so I'll ramp it up as the chickens fly the coop.

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Well, that is less than 9 years away... I will be 53. My dh is going to semi-retire and he will work a few months to earn enough money for the year, then we will do mission work for 3 or 4 months each year.. Sometimes it might be overseas, sometimes it will be to disasters like the tornadoes in Alabama/Mississippi or hurricanes. We'll go wherever God leads us. We've been saving for this from the beginning. Just waiting for youngest to graduate.

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I am in the early stages of my post homeschool career, and here's what I'm doing. My youngest dd cut my full-time parenting short by 3 years when she decided to go to an arts boarding school a year ago. I used the first year of post homeschool to aid the transition (and also helping dd#2 transition to college out of state). I visited a few times throughout the year and generally facilitated certain things from home so that the girls' stress levels would be lighter.

 

I am about to begin a one year full-time gig as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer. I will be working with an agency that serves new immigrants, and my job will be to develop employer relationships that will lead to jobs for these folks. I am hopeful that this year will serve as sort of an internship and allow me to shift to a career of using my skills to help others (I was a corporate attorney prior to homeschooling). It's pretty exciting, and my other VISTA colleagues are mostly an entire generation younger than me :D. 50 is the new 40, right?

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My youngest will be going to public high school next year while my oldest will be spending her senior year of high school in Spain. I guess my homeschooling career will be done at the end of this year. Sigh. It has caused a major mid-life crisis for me. Prior to homeschooling, I was a computer programmer/analyst and while I think I would be perfectly happy doing that again, I know it will require some classes to catch up on the latest and greatest. I have also considered totally switching gears and getting into the healthcare field as it really interests me. I think I would love to be a pharmacist, but I don't want to do that much school. Same with physician assistant. So, I've requested information from a local college about their MBA program and their MS in computer - hoping refreshing my skills with a masters degree might open up some doors for me. Not sure which degree would be better in helping me find a good job locally. Once I decide, I will have to take the GMAT or GRE and maybe I could start with a class or two next fall. I'm kind of excited at the thought of making money again, just in time to pay for college....

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I really want to get a huge mug of coffee, sit down and read through each and every reply! But at 5 pages, with just 5 minutes allotted to the boards this morning, I'll just post-n-run and come bag at coffee break time.

 

This spring I will graduate my oldest, hs'ed all the way through. Three others are now in private school, two for high school and one elementary. At most, future home schooling will include after schooling the youngest, *maybe* pulling her home for grades 3-6/7.

 

I am now in the process of chalking up prerequisites to apply for nursing school. I will likely be on the 5 year plan to earn a degree (RN or BSN, depends on my schedule and funding). In the meantime, I am starting to do some freelance writing to put aside cash for school. I hope to be able to get a full time nursing job to provide college tuition money for my second and third children. First and third are definitely scholarship candidates.

 

Also redoubling efforts for health and fitness to accomplish all the above!

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I'm there. No more homeschooling here. (what am I even doing on this board? Old habits die hard)

I have no intention in the world of going to work unless our world comes to an end.

 

I do have a great nephew that has been....um......biting his principle (good for him, I never did like that guy) and the counselor at school. He's a typical farm kid who has "worked" with his dad all his very young life and isn't taking being confined to a kindergarten desk for eight hours too well. Anyhow, I told his parents I'd homeschool him for a year if they needed me too.

 

Other than that I'm just sitting around enjoying doing nothing but cooking and horses. I'll be a grandma someday, so there's that to look forward to.

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My plan? :lol: Well my plan always seems to run counter to what life throws us, so I have "options" not plans now.

 

Option A: get rid of ds's desk, move in a piano, play piano, write stories, and walk the dog. (Depends on dh and his health, which has not been good lately)

 

Option B: if ds goes off to college I'm adding bookshelves to his room (the attic) and making a writing/reading nook and adding a hammock.

 

Option C: I'll go get a part-time job to help pay off the house quicker.

 

Option D: I'll work with my parents in the little shop they keep talking about opening.

 

Option E: Hike around the country with my old dog and my bamboo walking stick. Dh can drive. :lol:

 

Option F: Pass out in the living room and sit in a trance for about a year as I await the valid AARP card in the mail.

 

My real desire is to write and play the piano and go hiking. I'd like to travel, but unless the gods of fortune smile on our finances, I'll be taking virtual tours.

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I am two years away from being done with full time homeschooling. My last two will enter the high school two of my older kids go to or they will enroll in an independent study program. If they go the independent study program route, I'll will still have lots of supervising, but not so much teaching and planning.

 

Either way I plan to go back to school. My dh and I would like to teach at the college level when we "retire" So I need to get cracking on that. The first time I went to college, I studied French and Pychology, I have no desire to work in either of those fields. Trying to figure out what I want to study.

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I'd like to become a fiber artist (knitting, spinning, felting) and get on the Library board so I could help influence decisions with the local library.:001_smile:

 

Hey, I'm a fellow spinner/ knitter/ weaver but felting failure. I can't wait to have more time for my fiber.... in about 20 years....

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My youngest will be going to public high school next year while my oldest will be spending her senior year of high school in Spain. I guess my homeschooling career will be done at the end of this year. Sigh. It has caused a major mid-life crisis for me. Prior to homeschooling, I was a computer programmer/analyst and while I think I would be perfectly happy doing that again, I know it will require some classes to catch up on the latest and greatest. I have also considered totally switching gears and getting into the healthcare field as it really interests me. I think I would love to be a pharmacist, but I don't want to do that much school. Same with physician assistant. So, I've requested information from a local college about their MBA program and their MS in computer - hoping refreshing my skills with a masters degree might open up some doors for me. Not sure which degree would be better in helping me find a good job locally. Once I decide, I will have to take the GMAT or GRE and maybe I could start with a class or two next fall. I'm kind of excited at the thought of making money again, just in time to pay for college....

 

Did the dd going to school in Spain have to go through the local ps in order to do that? I could see my oldest dd be interested in doing something like that when she is old enough.

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Did the dd going to school in Spain have to go through the local ps in order to do that? I could see my oldest dd be interested in doing something like that when she is old enough.

 

Not at all, as a matter of fact, it would have been easier if she was still homeschooled as far as getting the classes when she needed them to graduate on time. She's going through the Rotary Club - they have an awesome program http://www.rotary.org/en/studentsandyouth/youthprograms/rotaryyouthexchange/Pages/ridefault.aspx

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I'll be 46 when DD is 18, I expect them both to live at home through college ( due to $$$) I will have a job somewhere to pay for it. So I could be 50 by the time DD graduates with undergrad, soon after that DS might be married w/children and I could be a grandma! DH is hoping to have a thriving Consulting business by then that will allow us to travel a lot. I already went to college and although I loved it I really see no need to go again... and really other then working at the Smithsonian my lifelong dream has been to travel the world.

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I was wondering if any of you have specific plans for your life after your homeschooling duties are completed.

 

Is anyone planning to return to a career or to build a new career from scratch or to further their own education?

 

For me, that will be in about a year and a half when EK graduates from our homeschool. I will be 52 years old. I am already teaching a 7th grader, the child of a friend. She'll be in 9th grade the next year after EK graduates, and I will likely continue to teach her. If so, I plan to also recruit a few additional students (girls only) also. If that doesn't work out, I'll probably get a job at the local Christian school. It would be fun to go back to teaching little ones to read.

 

I am considering returning to school and adding on my Ed.S. degree. (I already have an M.Ed.) I am thinking that I might want to be a reading specialist.

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I will be almost 60 when dd graduates, and I don't have any specific plans other than dancing the funky chicken on the back porch when dd starts her first day of college. Btw, I will probably be crying that same afternoon. She is our last child at home, and it is a precious and sweet time, passing too quickly.

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