Where
do I find myself 10 years from now?
I have been asked this question several times
in my lifetime and always, it takes me a moment to actually gather my thoughts
and ask myself, where do I actually intend to go? I am not someone with a
definite plan. I have always had goals in my life: to graduate, be a certified
public accountant, be a lawyer perhaps, but I wasn’t really definite about it.
I graduated, I became an accountant all on the same year but the third goal? It
remains a goal until now.
I have always shared this passion to become a
lawyer but I was always overcome with fear. What if I don’t pass the entrance
tests? The initial interview? What if I have a hard time with the subjects?
With time management? And so I always take a step back.
Then I finally decided to take up this
masteral degree with the hopes of gaining a more mature approach in my
professional career. I may have a license to back me up but the experience that
I have gained in my 5 years in the corporate world doesn’t seem enough to aid
me in my hopes to advance professionally.
I have been to three companies in my 5 year
career. The longest time before my current job was a two year stint in an
academe. Funny things is, I wasn’t part of the faculty but of the staff. It was
actually a conscious decision. I wanted to teach but I wasn’t ready. I wanted
to be equipped when I actually attempt to share my knowledge to young people.
So I took up a master’s degree.
And now, I am at the threshold of another
step in my life. In a few weeks, I will gain yet another addition to my name
and to my competency. With this in tow, I am now on the track of my
professional advancement goals.
Throughout the three years of my masters, I
have been through and fro in my reflections, realizations, and goal settings on
where I want to take myself in the next 10 years. I have tried many things. I
have stopped for a time in my master’s degree and felt that it was not a very
wise move so I just had to go back. I have tried teaching and well, it did not
give me the level of excitement I always envisioned it to give me. So I stick
with the corporate world and see where it will bring me.
I believe in destiny. I believe in the
universe conspiring. I believe in superficial things. But I also believe that
where I will be 10 years from now depends entirely on the decision I make today,
tomorrow and the rest of the tomorrows before I reach 10 years. The decision, I
know is as simple as this: achieve my pre-determined goals in my current position
in my current company. After which, I make another decision where I intend to
go.
I have just been recently given a task that
is quite a feat; something that will become a legacy once accomplished.
Whatever the outcome, I am quite sure that I will continue to be of service to
my present company, but at least I can be assured, I have made something so
vital to the company.
Professionally, getting a masters degree is a
big boost. This will prepare me to be an equipped manager in the future. In the
professional ladder that is set before me in my company and industry, there is
a good possibility that within the next 10 years, I will become part of the
management team of my company; not necessarily as the Finance Manager because I
am also interested in taking on a bigger challenge, that is to become the
Corporate Planning Supervisor. I am tickled by the necessary strategic
decisions and plans I will have to make and recommend to the management
committee.
So in 10 years, professionally, I envision
myself as a manager; personally, I envision myself as a wife and a mother. In
10 years, I will be starting my own business. In 10 years, I will be reading
this again and laugh at myself probably for saying these things but I know I
will applaud myself for a job well done. J
