why this question---

Now I can count I've been to 3 job interviews...
In all of them they ask a probably very famous question: Where do you picture yourself in the next 6 years?

What is it with this question, why is it so important where do you want to see yourself, do you see yourself in 6 years? I don't even know where I want to be in the next weekend. I don't even know if I want to have kids in the next 6 years. Of course It is important for a woman to decide this because as old you get more difficult it is, less hormones, less oocyte production or even less healthy oocytes. It is bad I took a PhD in this area, now I know all these problems......

So job interview it is! Biology area is different from IT, economics, management and so on...the salary is bad, work and things to study we have a lot, and you have to always keep a good mood even though your experiment doesn't work for months.
So I know where I want to be in the next years: maybe doing an experiment that will always work....or not!
Have a nice weekend with this question as food for thought: where you want to be in 6 years?