Life after College

Thinking about the future can be scary, especially for those of us who will be graduating college soon.  I don't know if there will be jobs out there for me, and I don't know if I'll be able to pay for graduate school if I decide to take that route in life.  But according to a video, "The Power of Vision," that I saw in my management class, as long as you have a positive vision, goal, for the future, you will have a purpose for the future and most likely, find success.  This view of the future sounds very optimistic and promising.  It may even sound too good to be true, but I think the video is right. 

I've always been a goal-oriented person.  Ever since I was in Elementary School, I would set out visions of my future, such as my goal of getting into the same High School that my sister went to and my goal of becoming a teacher who owned a Jaguar.  I did get into the same High School by getting high grades in elementary school, and for my second goal, although my career path has changed, I did start a Jaguar Fund that didn't raise much money, but had me start thinking about saving my money in a bank account for the future.  Either way, for me, having a vision of the future helps me know where I am going, what I should be doing today, and makes me feel a little secure about the unpredictable future.

Today, my vision for my future, after graduating college, is to become a manager of a hotel, own a condo in the city, and publish my own song.  Well, after my teacher phase, I fell in love with the idea of running a hotel because I love to travel and love business, so I thought why not have a career that combines both things that I love.  In making this vision true, I am planning to get an internship at a Hotel in the city, and hopefully move up from there.  In making my vision of owning a condo true, I will, hopefully, obtain a successful, financially secure job and I will be saving my money until I have enough to pay a good down payment.  Now, my vision of publishing my own song has been a personal goal of mines ever since I was in Junior High.  I've been writing lyrics that's been accompanied by beats from other people, but I would one day want to hear a song that I wrote on the radio.  I am trying to achieve this by learning to write my own music, so I will be able to publish my song.  Then, all I need to do is to send my song to recording studios, and have someone want to use it for their album.

I don't know what tomorrow holds or even if my visions will come true, but I do know that as long as am working hard towards a goal that is meaningful to me, my future will feel a lot less scary and a little more brighter.