Time is a core organising idea in longitudinal studies of young people. Yet, it is often treated as a backdrop to lives as they unfold, or the canvass upon which social change happens. This chapter centres time through engaging the concept of multiple temporalities, exploring its analytic and methodological affordances for qualitative longitudinal research. Drawing on a cross-generational, longitudinal study of young people and schooling in Australia, Making Futures, the chapter examines life course interviews and data from a rural research site, focussing on themes of mobility, aspirations and the affective and place-based dimensions of generational dynamics. Through three intergenerational vignettes, we examine the different time horizons and shifting temporalities in how young people navigate local and family attachments and anticipate and plan towards their futures. We trace uncertainty and tentative zig-zagging in thinking, including how parents’ reflections on their own educational journeys enter the picture, complicating different horizons of future planning. Finally, we argue that as well as a valuable analytic resource for longitudinal research, the concept of multiple temporalities also offers a way of attuning researchers to the times and places of their work and the historicity of their methods and research questions.