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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
(Researcher) kevin: Do you have any idea what you will be doing, say, in a couple of years?
nick: I hope to have a job by Christmas this year. I need a job before Christmas this year.
dave: I made a predicament [prediction] last night where I'll be in about five years. I know where I'll be, I'll be dead. I guarantee within five years I'm dead. Either from suicide, or I've been shot down by some other cunt. Guaranteed!
(Researcher) kevin: What about the rest of you? Where will you be in five years?
nick: In five years time?
jim: Still in Westview, on the dole!
tim: Stoned off me head!
dave: You know where I'll be? I'll be in the ground, with a gravestone saying [unintelligible].
nick: I'll be a millionaire!
(Researcher) jane: What about you, Serge?
serge: Me? In five years? I hope I'm up the bush [in the country] somewhere.
carson: Yeah, same here, that's where I'll be! Up the bush!
nick: I might be up Port Macquarie or somewhere.
tim: It's not a bad idea, that.
jim: Yeah.
serge: No, I just want to go up to Seymour. You're only an hour away. Buy a block of land, house, still come down to Melbourne to work. It's only an hour away, on a motorbike. Cruisin'.
(Researcher) jane: You'd like to live out of the city?
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