Did you ever take the time to stop and think, “What is my ultimate career goal?” It’s an open-ended question with tons of possible answers, but it will certainly force you to think about your career and where you are headed.
I am writing this post in response to a question that an engineer asked at one of my career advancement seminars. The question was something to the effect of, “How does my role fit into the big picture of the world?” What a great question! Unfortunately, the only person that can truly answer this question is the person that asked it, however I thought I would share how I would answer this question.
In attempting to answer this question, I would start by brainstorming on the first question I mentioned above, “What is my ultimate career goal?” Do you want to make a lot of money, be president of a company, work as little as possible and enjoy life outside of work as much as you can, own your own business, travel around the world during your career?
Next I would follow up that question with 3 letters, WHY? Why do you want to make a lot of money? Is it to support your family, is it so that you no longer have to work? Why do you want to travel, or better yet why wouldn’t you want to travel in your career?
Once you figure out your goal and why you want to achieve it, then it may be much easier to determine your role or purpose in the world.
My ultimate career goal is to help engineers and other professionals in unleashing possibilities to create a career that is exciting, enjoyable, successful and well-balanced. I plan to do so in a way that I can still fully enjoy my life with my family as well as an exciting, enjoyable, successful and well-balanced career!
I hope this post helps you to think about your big picture and start taking action today to paint that picture in whichever way brings you the most success and happiness!
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Anthony Fasano, PE, LEED AP
Engineering Management Institute
Author of Engineer Your Own Success
My ultimate career goal is to MAKE A DIFFERENCE for the benefit of public infrastructure, as a mentor for future engineers and most importantly for my family.
My carrier goal was to b with your organisation from now in a responsible position that enable me to utilize my talent and work closely with my colleagues in solving important problems .
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I want to work as mechanical engineer & learn so much of practical engineering knowledge & management tacticts to improved companies production. and in future I want to start my own organization so that I can utilise my talent & nature as dedication to work where I have no limitation to perform good & benefacial work to my company. I will apply my management skill to handle working people & to get fruitful work.
Actually i am confused what do i really want to achieve in my life
i love singing and sports my ultimate goal is to became the most amazing singer of all time
i also takes interest in new technology i want to serve or uh can say make their life better with new equipments experiments
My Best quality is that i am very hard working i can do hours of work . But i am very low in confidence that i will be able to successed in engineering .
My ulitmate goal is to one day own and operate an electrical/civil engineering firm. Where companies would come to us for advise, consultation, and project oversight. All of my family, extended or otherwise has struggled finacially at one time or another. I want to be the person that ensures my family never struggles again so long as i am alive and well.
Journey – great goals. You will do it, check out our blog categories on the right side of the site – “For Engineering Business Owners”
i am business development executive in marketing and i have done MBA what may be my ultimate career goal