What are your long-term career goals?

[Guest]

Currently managing accounts and consulting in client services, but after the next few months, I'm slowing trying to shift into IT. Going to take my time daily to study for IT certs and go from there. Maybe one day be a network administrator or work with cloud based technology.

Edited February 24, 2023 by StarlightNyars

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,028]

Clouds and glory of IT  

[Clawdeen 12,189]

        I’m making a very risky career move,which should I get one of these jobs I put in for, will put me back at not making a live-able wage. However it’s a better company ,they have better benefits, from what I’ve heard they’re pretty generous with giving raises and I wouldn’t be stuck doing manufacturing my whole life. It’s all deskwork/office work sort of jobs. I’m not going to be able to do the job I currently do forever without injury as I age. The awful workplace environment and coworkers aside, the truth is what I do now will lead to injuries as I age. My past 6 years here I’ve been promised to be given the training so I could transition off of the manufacturing floor and into an office job. They’ve yet to do that. Just empty promises and excuses.
         So while I still have family to stay with I’m going to start my life over someplace else now. It will hit me hard financially to do this. However because I know it’s a better company and see the growth into something bigger there I’m willing to take the risk. In a few years I might not be in the spot to take this sort of risk….so no time like the present. Plus I’ll never know what my life could have been if I stayed stuck and unhappy in manufacturing.

[DubWolf 17,252]

Farthest long-term? Fly the 787. *sighs*

Ok I know that's awfully specific. Could be any other type, and most certainly something that isn't paying to fly.

Edited March 11, 2023 by DubWolf

[SharpWit 2,618]

Somewhat of a difficult question given that I'm not 100% sure what I want to do.

I know I don't want to go any further in the Veterinary field than my current position as an assistant.

I go back and forth between enjoying a relatively quiet life away from the stupidity of the world, and wanting to get out and do something to make it a better place. Later this year I'm going to look at what it would take to become a teacher, so that could be a step in coming out from under my moss covered rock, as lovely as it is.

I think I'd like to retire with a Berry farm in my possession. I'll eat all that I can pick, and charge others to do the same.

[They call me Loyalty 1,948]

Getting hold of the inheritance. That is the plan. My family is destroyed. And there is no point in pretending this is going somewhere, because of what my progenitors did to me. So, I've been waiting. And now it is time to fill that empty space with money. Not so bad an ending. Especially when you consider that life kills everyone in the end. So, I might as well spare her the effort. But not until I get to play these video games I love so much. I owe something to a beautiful child. And I mean to fulfill that promise.

[Brony Number 42 10,069]

Get a master electrician license in 1 year. Then find an easy job at home. For now I'm going to see how long I can stay at my current job.

[Dreambiscuit 9,672]

I might try semi-retirement after this summer. I'm thinking about being a full-time mom, or as close to it as financially possible. 

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,028]

A lovely time in life to take care of all of your kids  

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,361]

I have none. I know what I am, for me to think I could ever be anything more is what I consider to be a personal form of hubris. All I have ever been is a failure. Some of us just aren't destined for, or in my case simply not deserving of, even the tiniest ounce of greatness. Most other people, "normal" people, they seem to have a point in their life. Fair play to them for making it all work. That just doesn't exist for me.

[Rare Crypty 4,770]

Well well. I have no career goals actually. Mostly because one day my life goals got more important for me than any career possibilities. I gave too much to silly career race already.

[Iforgotmybrain 5,536]

Make enough money to survive and enjoy my hobbies. That’s all I got. Working to live is better than living to work.

[Messy Mane 9,032]

To eventually obtain my Bachelor's Degree in Poli Sci and then (hopefully) go to law or grad school, earn another degree, and increase my chances of obtaining a respectable suit-and-tie job like a lawyer, professor, or government official/clerk, so I can assure my parents that they didn't almost die coming to America just to end up with a failure for a son.

Judging from my experience in school I was never the academic type, I was more interested in creativity and the arts, but I think we all are at a young age. My parents know this too, yet they still insisted on placing unrealistic expectations on me. Although, I know why they do this, and its because they have a very superficial understanding of what constitutes "success," they equate it with education, money, and affluence because both of them came from extreme poverty and lack secondary education. For those reasons, I sympathize with them, I only hope they can sympathize with me when I can't immediately find a decent job with my undergraduate degree, given how competitive the job market can be in America. I really do fear disappointing them, I'm afraid of losing the little sense of purpose I have on this earth. Nevertheless, I have enough motivation to keep myself dedicated, and there are opportunities out there if I truly look for them myself. Overall, I am optimistic, although I acknowledge I have my own limitations. 

[Envy 6,147]

Ever since I've kinda had an "awakening" so-to-speak I've been rethinking my career path. I love music, I really do, but I think me clinging onto that as a career idea was "trauma bubble" me.

I've been thinking about going with my passion for equality, fairness and going into Social Psychology, with the aim of maybe being a researcher. I have been so disturbed by the lack of scientific research for women in so many fields. Now, I am not one suited for medical stuff, as it makes me too queasy. However, psychology, I could do. I could help in researching from a non-physiological way.

This is still a little fuzzy. I'm still doing a lot of thinking here, but I need to get on whatever it is I'm going to do, because I'm in my 30s now.

[KatonRyu 1,033]

I don't have any. I'm fine being employed by the small software company I work for today. I don't want to have a management or leadership function and I don't care about making way more money. My goal is essentially to live comfortably and do what I want, and I've already reached that goal.