Five Year Plan

I accidently figured out my five year plan.  I think it is always great to set goals, and I am the type of person who likes to plan things out, but for some reason I had not come up with a five year plan for myself since going to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. 

Last night my boyfriend and I were talking about our goals and future plans.  He is currently in the middle of accomplishing his career goals and his dreams are coming true.  As we were talking, we started to discuss marriage, which is something we have talked about in the past and we know we are going to get married, but since he is so focused on his career which is happening right now, he has kind of put the whole marriage thing on the back burner.  During one of his BUD/S classes the instructor was telling all the guys to do what is important to them, and not worry about what anyone else thinks, especially if it is the right thing to do.  Previously before he started BUD/S he was out ring shopping, but then once BUD/S started, he was worried they would not think he was serious if he got married right in the middle of training, so he postponed it all.  Now he is once again thinking marriage, so this brought me to think about our five year goals and plan.

As we were talking, we both realized that if we were to get married now, before he signs on for his five year contract with the Navy Seals, he would get an extra three thousand dollars a month if he were married.  We could start saving two thousand dollars a month and using the other thousand for rent.  Within five years, we could have saved a hundred and twenty thousand dollars.  Not to mention being married, my health benefits would be taken care of. 

My main concern though, with my boyfriend who has now been in the Navy for almost 9 years is that once he signs on for his first five years as a Seal, he will only have another five to six years left of the Navy before he can retire, and why not retire – it would be stupid not to.  While talking with my boyfriend he told me that if I were to make a large sum of money or even a couple million or so on a film, then he would get out of the Navy now, but he currently does not have anything else to fall back on, and not a huge nest egg to fall into. 

So, here is the five year plan: we get married; we start to save two thousand dollars a month.  The other thousand goes towards my rent so I can focus more on acting and scoring bigger roles so that I can eventually make millions per film.  He will sign up to be a Seal for five years and by the end of those five years we will have one hundred and twenty thousand saved up and hopefully my career has then taken off so that I can now support him.  Since my career is more flexible, we can still have a family and be together which is much easier than trying to have a family with a Navy Seal who is only home about two months a year.  It is that simple!