My Real Life Goals

The first couple days of classes have gone well. I think I am going to be pretty busy but hopefully I will learn lots! I am enrolled in an online English class for business majors, we do things like write cover letters, resumes, reports, etc. Our first assignment was to write a one page paper on our real life goals. I figured I would share..

Throughout my life I have always set goals and then either achieved those goals or decided to move my life into another direction. College has been an amazing learning experience and has been a great place to develop my life goals. From the beginning of my college career to now, my goals for my future have changed and I see them continually changing as I grow in life. Currently, in my life I am about to face serious changes. I, as a college senior, am about to embark on the journey into the “real world.” Is this scary- absolutely, am I excited- one hundred percent. My one goal that has remained with me throughout all of college is to not only make it through college but to graduate with honors. I am so close to this goal I can almost picture myself with my sash on graduation day. If I accomplish this goal I will be able to truly see that all the hard work paid off and other people will be able to see it too. I guess partially this goal has to do with image. I value what my friends, family and colleagues think of me. Graduating college should be an accomplishment in itself, but if I also did it while maintaining a good GPA, well that’s even better.

As a college senior the “real world” and the job market are on my radar. A goal I set for myself last year, as I saw my friends struggle to find work, was to start the job hunt early and have a job before Christmas break. I think this goal is absolutely possible and realistic. It may take a lot out of me, I might be stressed out and anxious, but in the end if I achieve this goal I know I will truly feel like I have accomplished something. I will know that my time at NC State prepared me for something bigger. Since I began my job hunt the criteria has grown. Not only do I want a job, but I want a job I enjoy, in a city I love. I want to have a job, but I do not want to have a job and not be happy. If I am not happy that means I am not fulfilled. I do know that at first it might be hard to accomplish this goal, that as a recent college graduate I may not always be assigned tasks or projects that interest me. I do know that I will have to work my way up the corporate ladder, which may mean struggling at first to find my niche in the company.

My short term goals are fairly straightforward, graduate college with honors, get a good job, be happy, and stay healthy. I know that I can’t tell the future and that in five or ten years what I want now for my life may be completely different. I do know that wherever I work I want to be respected by my fellow employees and I want to accomplish things honestly and openly. I want to maintain my values while searching for my place in the company and building my name in the business world. Like many others, I have always dreamed of being the CEO of a large company. I want to be a role model for others, I want to help people and I want to be successful. Sometimes I think that all of this isn’t possible, but it is a goal of mine to work hard and to be able to enjoy what I earn and to share it with others. I know there are so many people that solely focus on work and never enjoy life. I want to be a successful person but I still want to take time to see the world. I want to work hard so that one day I can enjoy my successes. However, the thing with goals and dreams is that sometimes they don’t come true or that they change. Currently I am single, I am not married nor do I have children. In ten years from now this may be a completely different story and I may want to be a stay at home mother, instead of the CEO I dream of being now. I do know that as long as I am happy, healthy and my family and friends are the same, my life will be fulfilled and that will mean that I have achieved all of my goals.