i will graduate in 2011 with a 1st class Bacelors in Management Science. I plan to get some work helping organise the 2012 olympics in london, then work for whatever company that is organising the 2014 commonwealth games in glasgow…
then after that i would like to continue organising sporting events etc… maybe continue with the olympics, i predict 2016 will be in Chicago and 2020 will be in India.
Or i would quite like to get a job within a major sporting team; organising their travel arrangements, sponsership deals etc, or within a major stadium, organising a variety of events.
basically i want to combine my flair and like of organising things and my love for sport and music.
however an important thing to me is not to be stuck behind a desk doing the same damn thing for 40 years. i dont mind being stuck behind a desk, but aslong as each year is different id be happy.
i would like to retire before im 50. and have a house in ireland, a house in south america and one in eastern europe. Then i would die a happy man.
Having a plan is a good thing. But It is important to know that just having a plan or just setting some goals doesn’t necessarily put you any closer to achieving them. Goal setting can be just as much of a skill as executing them. Being that one of your goals is to study managerial sciences though, I’m sure you’ll get a good grasp on that though. Good luck.
Short term - Get the motivation to do my dishes more than one plate/fork/knife combination at a time.
Mid-term - acquiesce to defeat in the former
Midder-term - prep for my san dan test, either next year or year after
mid-midder-term - continue on current financial path to security and comfort now and forever (to be read as "not knockin’ up no bitch-ass-ho [further reading to include “lasering the pipes so my sperm don’t get to fertilize and egg”)
Continue my slip into insanity wherein I am the villain in the best comic in the world.
Short Term- Become a Firefighter (been working on that one for a while), buy a house.
Mid Term- Get a wood shop, make furniture.
Long Term- Do something exceptionally badass. What, I don’t know, but I will be written about for the rest of time, Like John Henry, or The Viking at Stamford Bridge.
[quote]jtg987 wrote:
life never works out the way you want it[/quote]
That may be true, and you will no doubt run into obstacles especially if you plan to do better than average, however, I know way too many people who use the possibility of failure as an excuse to avoid ever trying much to begin with.
We were made to come up with a “5 year plan” when we were in high school. I think having clear concise goals keeps you from being complacent.
I have actually had conversations with people where they have insisted that an education or a career doesn’t mean anything because you could lose it tomorrow. I never met someone who thinks that way who has achieved very much.
I want to graduate with a Juris Doctor before I’m 28.
I want to be in a position to quit IT and begin a career as a barrister and then ultimately become either a judge or magistrate. I’m thinking I’ll start off as a Judge’s Associate.
In the meantime I want to become an expert in my current role as a Performance Tester.
Throw in a loving relationship with someone of the opposite sex and that’ll do me.
Everyone I know thinks its weird for me to attempt to gain a JD when I have already graduated and have a decent career in IT.
If I knew that I’d be in the same role 10 years from now I’d probably take my own life. How fucking boring.
Confucius say: The exemplary person pursues harmony, not sameness.
