We spend so much time planning, going through, or just thinking about transition that for awhile it seems to consume our lives. However, as I am sure you're all aware, life isn't about transition. Speaking for myself it's kinda a small part. I take my shot, save my money for SRS, and get on with life.

That being said, besides transitioning to male what else do you want in life? Where do you see yourself in five, ten, or even twenty years down the road? Who are you besides a transman?

I picture myself in the next decade living with my gf in an old farmhouse somewhere in the countryside. I grew up beside my grandparent's farm and recently I've started to really miss that way of life. I imagine growing a large garden or two and raising some livestock. Mainly eat what we raise/grow and putting some up for sale at the farmer's market. Also, if everything works out right raising a child or two.

In the short term I want to finish this year at college, change tack and go to sixth form, go to a local uni because I don't want to trek the other side of the country and run up an even bigger debt than I will with uni anyway, and then find a career I will enjoy.  Hopefully something related to history if I can find it, if not I wouldn't mind driving trains, or in the emergency services, I've never known what career path I would take after finding out a few years ago that I would fail a military medical due to my mental health history.

I want to get a place with my girlfriend, find a job where I can earn enough money to not have to worry about it ever again -- neither of us have come from wealthy families -- and when I've finished with my education and we're in a stable place have a kid together.  I can picture me being a father to a son (I would still love them if they were female though, it's just not in my imagination of the future), going out to work and cooking dinner for my girlfriend in the evenings for when she comes home from work if she's still working in pubs.  Going to places at the weekends and I would dabble in some photography again then.  We would probably have a dog too.

I really want to break us out of the idea that people from non-wealthy families stay that way, and people never really better themselves.  Money isn't everything of course, and I always maintain the opinion that I would rather live in a slum with the people I love, than alone in a mansion, but one less worry is never a bad thing.

I know I seem pretty money orientated, but I don't really care about that past the ability to protect and provide for my family.  Just give me a warm house (for once), the woman I love and a good mental state and I will be the happiest man alive.

Interesting question...

When I think about it, I have little hope for a partner in the future.
But education wise I hope to have finished my Master in Ecology in about half a year, maybe do a phd after that and just devote myself to science.

I want to pass the bar and start working as an attorney, and possibly get an LLM in tax law. I want to live in a decent apartment for a few years and pay down my student loans, and maybe eventually buy one of those old colonial era houses.

I just want to work and then come home and walk my dog, exercise, and eat sushi. I really enjoy painting, dyeing fabrics, sewing (except for when I want to throw the sewing machine out the window), making jewelry, knitting, spinning.... yeah.... all that sort of stuff.

I might eventually decide if I want to convert to Sikhism one day, but if I don't, I don't care, you don't need to be in any religion to be happy. I'll just go to gurdwara whenever I feel like it and then eat langar. 

I also want to do some traveling, hopefully I'll get good enough at Portuguese to go to Brazil one day (though Pimsleur seems to be training me to only be able to pick up prostitutes and order alcohol...)

So yeah... that's my life. I don't want kids and I don't want to get married again.

for me transitions isnt just about homones and surgery, its about being you and moving in a dirrection to be happy. in a way I belive everyone should try that, cis or not. I dont say everyone should be trans, but I think its healthy to ask yourself what you really want and move toward that goal.
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For me I desire to be happy, as well as people around me.
I wish to have my own place and be able to be myself all the way,
I wanna get to travel more, so maybe I will work with it. Since going to Japan I been dying to get out more to see and experience the world.
I am probably still writting and being creative. I wish it could get publish and maybe made into a movie wish alot of people would enjoy as well as myself.
I wanna keep having good friends around me, hanging out to drink beers, or maybe inviting them home for partys. eating good food like sushi and red beef maybe in relationship having children,
its dosent seams so likely, but youll never know.

I really dont know what the future will bring but this is some of the things I thought about when I think beyond being trans.

Honestly, I don't have any high expectations.  I don't see myself finding a partner and I've accepted that. I'll be content just moving in with a close friend to help split the bills. I don't want much from life.  I just want to be financially stable and work a job that pays decent, is relatively easy, and won't need me to talk to a lot of people.  The only thing I want from life is to be able to go to Anime Expo yearly and to cosplay.  I also see myself having to tend to a lot of other health problems too.

I want to get over some of my hang ups and issues and genuinely feel happy with myself.

I'd like to do more art and writing.

I'd like to work less hours and make more money.

I'd like to travel all over the world.

I want to work for dreamworks by the time I'm 25(aiming for 23), and I want to own apartments for stable income by 28 or 30. and of course during all of this I want to meet somebody I can cuddle with till the suns burns out.

so not too much. of course I'm summarizing this down to 1% of what I'm looking for in my 10 year plan.

good question. I want to emphasize that people need to have a life other than transition. I was so focused on transitioning for so long, that now that I am done, i am going through a really akward phase of what do i do now? I have settled on some new goals, but it was really really really weird to not have something to obsess about. Despite wanting my phallo for so long, it was almost a let down to finally get it because the build up was so intense. But I am happy, but it was weird to be 'finished'

That's interesting. I talked to my therapist about that earlier, and I didn't know what to say for the first time. Transition is on my mind all the time, and school is just the second for me, which is not okay but I can't change that right now. Than I realized transition is just the tool not the aim. I mean it's the tool to make my life happier and feel like it's mine but it's not my main goal.