What's considered a good answer to "where do you see yourself in 5 years"? How would you answer that? Have you heard a good answer?

I've previously been advised to be honest but if I'm truly honest, I don't want to plan that far ahead. It's a quality of life thing - my career is not my life, it simply funds my life. Once I'm debt free, the world shall be my oyster.

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Celebrating the 5th year anniversary of you asking me this question.

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As someone who knew I didn't want to be a partner, I dodged the question: "Continuing to develop my expertise as an attorney in X practice area, build long-term relationships with firm clients and contribute to training and mentoring junior attorneys."

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Hi! I think that answer would be a red flag to an interviewer for sure. I think you need to find out from the interviewer early on what they envisage for the role, where it will take the successful candidate and then try and align your answer with that. A lot of it depends on what the job is, if it’s a junior associate role at a big firm, you probably want to seem ambitious and talk about pushing for partnership in 5 years. Think it depends a lot on the position.

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