Personal Narrative: My Ultimate Career Goals

Along with creating steps which will lead me towards my ultimate career goal, the creation of a specific five-year plan for myself was key. In five years I will be in school, hopefully in my final year of my Masters degree; a plan which seems so simple to achieve, however requires an extensive amount of hard work and dedication. Being so far in my academic career already, I will hopefully have worked in summer internships or been employed during the year by a speech-language pathologist or various health institutions to gain experience in the profession and potentially become full time employed by one of these institutions post-graduation. Within the five years, I will have as well established networks and built relationships with multiple

It includes the same beginning aspects of my five-year plan however adding the aspects of having graduated with a Masters degree and having four years of work experience as a speech language pathologist. Along with the professional aspect of my life within the next decade, I also plan to establish a work-life-family balance, as I want to get married and start a family as well. This adds many challenges as my plan now involves others, however it is my ultimate goal. Although thinking this far in advance has many positive effects; it allows you to set short term and long term goals, lets you see an over view of how you envision your life within the given time frame and also provides you with the ability to time-manage to avoid potential stress, it also has many negatives too. For example, life is never as perfect as we plan out and many challenges which steer individuals in various directions occur creating an added pressure for the individual to actually complete the goal by the given time which causes additional stress. However, besides the pros and cons of planning one’s future, I strongly believe it has many benefits which outweigh the disadvantages and ultimately allow for greater levels of