So I have to make some kind of professional goals and put them on paper. It's some kind of required thing I don't care about because I'm too busy doing what they pay me for. I've never been able to answer the question "So what are your goals for the future?" I'm a let's-take-this-path-and-see-where-it-leads kind of person. I kind of luck into things for lack of a better phrase. (I actually don't believe in luck; things happen for a reason.)
I supposed if pressed my answer to the above question would be "Don't be homeless" or "don't get the diabetes." Those aren't really goals as much as lifelong pursuits. I think of a goal as having an end point when you reach it. My "goals" don't have end points in my lifetime.
And anyway, they want some kind of professional goal. I'm over here like "I've been doing this less than a year; I'm just trying to keep my head above water." I suppose I could sit down with my boss as directed in the email I got from HR and figure out some kind of list. But I know as soon as the list is made I will forget about it. I don't have time to worry about my career; my job is just a means to fund my real life. On top of that I am willing to sacrifice my professional well-being in order to help a client. What I mean by that is that if my stats suffer, so be it. I am in the job for me as far as having money to live on, but in day to day operations my mind is on my clients' welfare, not mine. Am I the only one?
I supposed if pressed my answer to the above question would be "Don't be homeless" or "don't get the diabetes." Those aren't really goals as much as lifelong pursuits. I think of a goal as having an end point when you reach it. My "goals" don't have end points in my lifetime.
And anyway, they want some kind of professional goal. I'm over here like "I've been doing this less than a year; I'm just trying to keep my head above water." I suppose I could sit down with my boss as directed in the email I got from HR and figure out some kind of list. But I know as soon as the list is made I will forget about it. I don't have time to worry about my career; my job is just a means to fund my real life. On top of that I am willing to sacrifice my professional well-being in order to help a client. What I mean by that is that if my stats suffer, so be it. I am in the job for me as far as having money to live on, but in day to day operations my mind is on my clients' welfare, not mine. Am I the only one?
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