Journal #21: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Five years from now is a long time. So much can happen in one year, so five years is quite the gamble. This year I graduate from college with an Associates in Information Technology and will promptly be looking for a job.
With how I want things to pan out after graduation, in five years I see myself working a stable enough job in the field I chose to major in. Hopefully, in a location here I not only can work in what I specialized in, but also better myself in that specialty.
Putting work aside, I also want to be in a good place with my family. Hoping to be on good terms with everyone and that they are all healthy and doing good. If possible, I would like to be able to start supporting my family like they have supported me for my entire life.
There’s a lot I want to do and am looking forward to. I am not going to set goals just yet until I work some things out, but I think that this is loosely what I want to at least START to see in five years.
I have a class in my college that helps with the graduation process. This also includes doing interviews. One of the questions that I was looking into was this one. Where do you see yourself in five years?
I realized I never really put much thought into what I want from my future. In my junior of high school year, I was convinced I was never going to even enter college. Now that I’m in college, I have no idea what I’m going to do when I graduate.
It’s like… I’ll have this degree I worked so hard towards and yet, my future is still such a blur. And mostly? It’s my fault. I hate planning things and setting goals. Especially ones so far into the future. I’ve always had this belief that if I set too many goals, I will be disappointed if I don’t reach that goal for one reason or another.
Maybe the way I look at things needs a little bit of reevaluating, but I’ve found that the slight mystery of things adds a little interest in life. I notice that I am not hellbent on only one thing, but rather, I embrace what comes at me.
Surely this isn’t the most productive of characteristics, but I guess I am how I am.