There Are No More 5-Year Plans

What does it mean to plan out our lives in unplannable circumstances?

Rainesford Stauffer
Forge
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6 min readApr 22, 2021

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The last time someone asked me about my five-year plan, I was in an office with too few windows, interviewing for a job that listed one set of responsibilities in the description and a different set in the interviews. I tried not to let it faze me, because the role came with health insurance.

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Rainesford Stauffer
Forge
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Author of An Ordinary Age, out 5/4/2021. Freelance writer. Kentuckian.