Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Reflection 2 Paper: Career Goals 5 to 10 years from now.

So this week our question is what are your career goals for five and ten years from now? How will I achieve them? Now, this is a very good question. Most people don’t even have a plan out of college let alone know what to do or how to achieve it. Well, lucky for me I have been planning what I have wanted to do with my career since I started college. Here is my list of goals and what I plan to do to get them.
            After finishing my degree within the first year I would like to be working in the field. I will start by having my resume circling the websites like Monster.com, Indeed.com, Career Builder.com and Baker system. I will also have a website up and running for employers to look at my current work. For an interview purposes, I plan to have an identity package so I can give my employers when I meet them.
            Hopefully by year three, if I am hired by a company and getting some experience. If not, (which I hope this doesn’t happen) I will be making flyer and posting them to Facebook, friends, family and word of mouth on getting work. I will also go to companies and business that need a redesign on their work and see if I can help them out. I will also try contract work from temp services and businesses that want their work sent out.
            By year five, I will either be working in a company with a stable job gaining more work experience or starting my own company with my good clientele. I will be keeping up with the latest software upgrades and learning new trends for the industry. Also, I will attend conferences or workshops that are good for my educational purposes. I will keep my portfolio up-to-date and add new material to the content of my website and print.
            Now year 7, is when it will get interesting for me. This is the year I will step up my game either on my job or in my business. If I am working for a company, I will be learning everything an Art Director does in their job. I will learn, study and get help from people in my building to find out what the details of the job will be and if I will have to go back to school to up-grade my skills. If I own a business, I will want to take on more work, hire people, and build a high clientele that will reach to other businesses in the local area.
            I have reached 10 years and plus, WOW, I can’t believe it has been ten years. I will have to say that by this time. I will either be an Art Director for a company I work for or an owner of my own company. On either side my co-workers, employees and clients will enjoy working with me and hopefully they will have the same drive, passion and commitment to their work and the company as I do.

            Now, as I read this I hope in five to ten years, these things come true, but I promise to do my best in everything I do with what I got to make these goes come true. Hey, If I can get through college after having two carpel tunnel surgeries, gallbladder surgery, car and computer problems brake down and losing my job, plus get not one but two different degrees I think I can make it.

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