Future, future, future. When you are a junior at college that is one the most important, if not The most important thought in your mind. I have had that thought in my mind ever since i was in 12th grade, when they were asking us about our college preference list. Ever since that day i have been wondering what my destiny has planned out for me. And even to this day this same question troubles me. What i don't want to be is just another cog the wheel. And i guess this my vision. If i had to come up with the list of realistic goals that i hope to achieve in the next five years then it would be the following;
1) Get a job in One of the Big Fours, as i am an accounting major. Yes, the most boring of them all, but i am not one by choice but due to circumstances that I let go unchecked to an extent that they are not under my control anymore.
2) Get my CPA degree. That's going to be my retirement policy. So that when i am done with the busy-ness world i can sit back relax and earn some pocket change during tax season.
2) Work hard, and i do mean hard, for at least three years, and then get into a really good business school to get my masters. Nothing hort of a really good B-school won't cut it for me because unlike what they tell you here, name does matter a lot. Be it school, work or family, name is your ticket to the big game.
3) Start to do something different, something meaningful, something that would make sure people would remember.
4) save up enough money for that laser eye surgery. My eyesight is becoming worse and worse with each and every passing day. But i hate glasses and rather have a surgery, that may leave me broke, rather wear glasses. With glasses just won't feel the same. I will be a shell of my former self. What former self? Yep you guessed it right, only time will tell.
As to (1) i am almost there as i have an internship at one of them for next summer. no one got me the internship, i got it for myself. With the help of just a couple of paragraphs that i wrote in my cover letter. It was then i realized how important they are. With teh same resume that got rejected or ignored over and again but with little extra in teh form of a cover letter i was able to pull it off. If that didn't go through i would have been demoralized and down and out without a way of getting up because i was desperately searching for a plan B. And now i have it.
(2) What exactly is it i have no idea whatsoever. And the funny thing is that's my plan A. Only time will tell.
(3) That's a given, at least graduate with a 3.5, which i am struggling to do because of that one dreaded semester. But i am doing what it's going to take to make that goal achievable. And that itself no way guarantees me a ticket, other stuff like top notch recommendations from work, community service, hobbies, attitude will all factor in. And they will all be worked at as soon as i graduate. That's my plan B+. What about A? Ask destiny. Maybe a show-stopper or even a dud.
The video that we say in class told us that all leaders should complement vision with actions, because one without the other is not possible, just like how 1 without another 1 doesn't make two. This is a good point indeed but my question is does the combination of both always guarantees success? I think not because if you look at it almost all of have a vision, and just a simple act of coming to school constitutes as steps taken to achieve that vision. And not all get what they want, especially if you you don't have the name factor going for you. There are abnormalities and people might argue that they were more dedicated to their vision the others that why they are what they are. This is true to an extent, but there are others who are, if not more then at least equally, dedicated to their vision but they never succeed. This is because they never get a chance. And then among those are those that get a chance but they let it go, that's what lands them in the position that they end up in. We all have a vision, it's rare to find someone who doesn't, and most of us take actions to achieve that vision but many of of them don't get there? This is because, those who have both vision and appropriate actions, wait for that chance, that chance when someone will knock on their door and give them that ever slightest boost to get to their goals. Greatness lies dormant is us all and whether we achieve it or not depends a lot on whether we answer that knock. Some do and some don't and that's what differentiates the have-s from the have-not. So what about those other deserving candidates that don't get the knock and, is there anyway to try to make sure that you get that knock, that's a discussion that demands a separate blog entry.
So the question shouldn't be whether you have vision or not, especially to college students, the question should be when Cometh the hour will cometh the man? When you hear it will you be willing, will you have what it takes to answer . What students should be asking is; the man has cometh but when will cometh the hour? How and when will we be able to hear that nerve tingling opportunity's knock?
1) Get a job in One of the Big Fours, as i am an accounting major. Yes, the most boring of them all, but i am not one by choice but due to circumstances that I let go unchecked to an extent that they are not under my control anymore.
2) Get my CPA degree. That's going to be my retirement policy. So that when i am done with the busy-ness world i can sit back relax and earn some pocket change during tax season.
2) Work hard, and i do mean hard, for at least three years, and then get into a really good business school to get my masters. Nothing hort of a really good B-school won't cut it for me because unlike what they tell you here, name does matter a lot. Be it school, work or family, name is your ticket to the big game.
3) Start to do something different, something meaningful, something that would make sure people would remember.
4) save up enough money for that laser eye surgery. My eyesight is becoming worse and worse with each and every passing day. But i hate glasses and rather have a surgery, that may leave me broke, rather wear glasses. With glasses just won't feel the same. I will be a shell of my former self. What former self? Yep you guessed it right, only time will tell.
As to (1) i am almost there as i have an internship at one of them for next summer. no one got me the internship, i got it for myself. With the help of just a couple of paragraphs that i wrote in my cover letter. It was then i realized how important they are. With teh same resume that got rejected or ignored over and again but with little extra in teh form of a cover letter i was able to pull it off. If that didn't go through i would have been demoralized and down and out without a way of getting up because i was desperately searching for a plan B. And now i have it.
(2) What exactly is it i have no idea whatsoever. And the funny thing is that's my plan A. Only time will tell.
(3) That's a given, at least graduate with a 3.5, which i am struggling to do because of that one dreaded semester. But i am doing what it's going to take to make that goal achievable. And that itself no way guarantees me a ticket, other stuff like top notch recommendations from work, community service, hobbies, attitude will all factor in. And they will all be worked at as soon as i graduate. That's my plan B+. What about A? Ask destiny. Maybe a show-stopper or even a dud.
The video that we say in class told us that all leaders should complement vision with actions, because one without the other is not possible, just like how 1 without another 1 doesn't make two. This is a good point indeed but my question is does the combination of both always guarantees success? I think not because if you look at it almost all of have a vision, and just a simple act of coming to school constitutes as steps taken to achieve that vision. And not all get what they want, especially if you you don't have the name factor going for you. There are abnormalities and people might argue that they were more dedicated to their vision the others that why they are what they are. This is true to an extent, but there are others who are, if not more then at least equally, dedicated to their vision but they never succeed. This is because they never get a chance. And then among those are those that get a chance but they let it go, that's what lands them in the position that they end up in. We all have a vision, it's rare to find someone who doesn't, and most of us take actions to achieve that vision but many of of them don't get there? This is because, those who have both vision and appropriate actions, wait for that chance, that chance when someone will knock on their door and give them that ever slightest boost to get to their goals. Greatness lies dormant is us all and whether we achieve it or not depends a lot on whether we answer that knock. Some do and some don't and that's what differentiates the have-s from the have-not. So what about those other deserving candidates that don't get the knock and, is there anyway to try to make sure that you get that knock, that's a discussion that demands a separate blog entry.
So the question shouldn't be whether you have vision or not, especially to college students, the question should be when Cometh the hour will cometh the man? When you hear it will you be willing, will you have what it takes to answer . What students should be asking is; the man has cometh but when will cometh the hour? How and when will we be able to hear that nerve tingling opportunity's knock?
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