Where and How are Your Education, Skill Set, and Time Spent?

Mission: As a marketer and business professional, I consistently strive to meet new challenges, thirst for knowledge, improve upon and learn new skills, and expand my educational tool box.

On the first day of college, scores lay in their newly minted dorm room beds complete with fresh sheets and new comforters. Their insurmountable expectations and mindset of the "college experience" is filled with the excitement of meeting new people, classes to enjoy, and athlectic activities to solomnly enjoy.

During the college experience, several declared their majors and career paths as if they have always known their professional destiny. Are you picturing your best friend, who is an attorney or your sibling who is a medical doctor, who used to "act-out" their current profession as a child? While others seek the career alternatives through classroom learning, advice of Doctoral level professors, volunteering in an organization, partaking in activism for their beliefs, or through pure luck of a new experience.

In order to effectively achieve your professional goals and career aspirations, it is elemental to find a path in which you find valuable of your time, education, effort, and skill level. We all want to value and take pride in our professions, as we spend insurmountable years of education, sizeable sums of money, and energy to become successful in this regard.

As you reflect upon your educational achievements, skill set, and goals, have you honestly fully met your professional goals? Have your career goals masterfully connected like chocolate and marshmallows on smores at a campfire?

• More noteably, have you blazed past your career goals into an opportunity you did not foresee, which fulfilled your time, education, skill level, and effort?
  


• While attending college, did you dream of being a "major player" within a Fortune 500 Company in a spectacular urban loft and outstanding night life?
  


• Maybe you planned to continue your passion for activism within the not for-profit sector and represent a specific segment you truly believe in?

As a marketing professional and M.B.A. with 10 years of experience, I will leave you with what I have learned in the workplace, classroom, and real world:

• Believe in your profession and career path,



• Expand your network socially and personally,
  


• Continue to gain professional experience,
  


• Make mistakes, learn, and move forward,
  


• Thirst for knowledge and seek-out resources,



• Do not compromise your ethical code, and
  


• Believe in and value yourself.