Personal Goals
- This is a preview of the essay.
To view the full text you must login!
Goals Set to Achieve
Let me begin by asking if anyone is as shocked by the real world as I am? What an eye-opener! It was but three years ago that this mother, wife, full-time student, and full-time wanna-be career woman, among so many other things, was only a senior in high school. Throughout all eighteen years of my educational career, the goals I had set for myself as well as the goals others had set for me were both pretentious and apprehensible. I always had intentions of attending college and had even imagined a doctorate someday, but fate has had other plans for me. Soon after graduating, I attended the University of South Carolina for a short time where I was Pre-Med Psychology. Soon after, however, I became pregnant and needed to set my initial plan for the future aside. I had a beautiful little girl, began a career (or better termed, job), and was married, all in that order. As can be imagined, most of those initial expectations I had were lost. Although I would never change a single road life has led me down, it is time I wise up to the possibilities there are for me; so let me explain why the University of Phoenix will help me reach those professional and personal goals I had set not so long ago...