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What are your professional goals?
What have you set out to accomplish?
How will you know when you have been successful? |
I knew I was successful the day I walked away from a prolific career. My health, well-being, and peace of mind was more important. |
I am thinking of this thread as a place to share professional goals and successes.
My goals, which I hope to accomplish by the time I turn 50 in May
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My professional goals:
1. Get my company's highest certification (means doing full paper and defense of that paper) 2. Write at least one technical book. |
My goals:
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Professionally I have many goals... but the one that is on top of my list for this year has to do with Charitable Giving. I have worked long and hard for many years in the Non-Profit world.... and I am finally setting up my first Planned Giving Program for a local Non-Profit where I once served on the Board... My goal is to have accomplished this effort for three different Non-Profits in the San Diego area. I love working with charitably minded people... a LOT... and I love doing work for these types of organizations. To be known as one of the top financial planners for small Non-Profits is a goal of mine... and one that is within reach! :thumbsup:
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oh gawd, just had an hour long "development" meeting last week. we need to submit goals in another month I believe.
I do think if they'll reimburse the cost, I'll get a digital marketing certificate at NYU. Not sure if they'll cover non degree work and since I already have an MBA I think I'm done the official school stuff. :) |
Great thread. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone is working on and striving for! I'm always shocked at the huge range of professions and accomplishments.
Personally, I have quite an ambitious list that I'm excited to tackle: 1. Complete my degree (December 2011, baby!) in Business Leadership and Management - hopefully with a 4.0 GPA. 2. Finish the Management Succession Academy that I was selected for at work and move into an upper management position within the next year. 3. Take the GRE and enroll in a Masters program within 2-3 years (hopefully in Communication or Public Policy). 4. Take over the world. |
I hope to help people thru reflexology at a wonderful clinic and keep the household clean and full of healthy meals, taking care of this wonderful leather family as that is the most meaningful thing in my life right now.
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Retirement.
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I am currently one of the managers of a domestic violence shelter. I would like to further my career in this field and perhaps branch out to other similar areas.
Currently enrolled in classes to obtain my degrees in human services and in substance abuse counseling. Will hopefully follow it through to the masters level. One goal/hope is to maybe one day work in the prison system with battered women who have "fought back" and are incarcerated for doing so. The other goal/hope would be to continue working with abuse survivors within our community. Oh, and then retire early on a beach somewhere. ;) |
My goals are the next step in my plan for a master's degree and getting a job teaching that actually pays similarly to what I could make in the health care industry. . .
This year is a busy year . . . 1. Become a certified ICD-10 trainer, scheduled for July 2. Sit for and pass my RHIT, scheduled for June 3. Get a job making beaucoup dough so I can fiance the end of my degrees without student loans, (after 1 and 2) 4. Run ICD-10 training seminars around the US (after 1 and 2) |
I had professional goals for a very long time. Now after aging and maturing and wasting the best working years of my life for a company that has a "boys club" mentality, I need to rethink the rest of my working life which is only 20 more years and set some new goals.
I met most of my professional goals several years before I had intended to. The one goal I didn't achieve, I realize now was because I am "nonpenile". Being penile is an unspoken requirement to achieve supervisor or management status in my company or even in sales. We have no female bodied people in outside sales. Sooo I'm kicking myself in the ass for wasting so many years of my life being loyal this company. I'd like to go into something in the medical field but either there is a long waiting list and I don't test well on written test anyway or there are no schools close to my hometown that offer what I'm looking for that probably doesn't have a waiting list. So maybe before I'm 50, I'll have made another plan. |
I am 42 years old. I had a very bad upbringing because of my gender identity and my parents lack of acceptance.. As a result, I was denied a good education to the point of where I dropped out of school because of the stresses at home and because of bullying.. I got my GED in 2000.
This year, I am starting classes to go for an AA degree with a main course of study being on the Japanese language. If I can go to a 4-year college, I will pursue East Asian Studies and Journalism or Mass Communications. One of my professional goals is to work in Japan which would be a double challenge for me considering that I am over 40 and transgender. There's a lot of discrimination in Japan still, mainly around age and gender but things are getting better. Good luck to everyone and I hope you all achieve your goals! (*^u^*)/ =m |
I went out on Disability in 2005 when it became obvious trying to work was killing me. I was an accountant for years and before that office manager/accounting. Because of injuries to my lower back and discs it was so painful and degenerative. I was accepted on the first round without an attorney and 120 days after submitting my application. Managment experience was extremely helpful in preparing my case and collecting the documentation needed.
I have thought often of doing this for a living and it is legal and very lucrative. But it would require a lot of sit down work, following through with clients and a great deal of stress. So I just gave that up and began working on my artwork which I love. Great topic! |
What an inspirational thread!
My current professional goals: * Continue to hone my pedagogy to reach and help diverse student populations * Publish my dissertation, which is very dear to my heart (about confession and trauma) * Earn tenure and work in administration * Balance my professional ambitions with love, health, and happiness |
My professional goals have changed as I have aged (whose haven't)...I actually did all of the being in charge of everything that I ever wanted to do, and now I would settle for playing Blackjack professionally for the rest of my life.
A girl can dream....:praying: |
It's interesting that you asked this question because I've been thinking about this a great deal lately. I thought I was settled, although I did want to own my own business eventually. Then out of nowhere I applied to graduate school this week. I might not get accepted, but I decided that after being in business management for over 10 years that it's time for a change. I would like to work as a LMSW for a maximum security prison or at a VA hospital working with people that suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. The money won't be as good, but I think the work would be more satisfying.
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I chose going back to school. :cheesy: Seriously, I have achieved many of my goals. I got my MBA and have a wonderful job that lets me work from home and have great flexibility in my life. I'm enjoying project management work tremendously (it lets me use my pushy side to great advantage), and will be working on getting my professional certification in that field as well...especially since my company will provide the course work for free. Other than that, I have always wanted to publish...and possibly teach...and that's next on my list. :) |
-Finish my second BA
-Masters -Phd -Open my own gym, or at least enter a position at a more welcoming gym that would allow me to focus on training/providing an athletic/physical outlet for LGBT youth. Gyms are not always the most welcoming places for those who don't fit the norm, and fitness is so important in our age that I'd honestly like to provide a more welcoming physical space. -Find a way to balance my love for academics, physical culture and incessant, sporadic travel :p |
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