Resetting planned career goals

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Many of us have had our lives mapped out since middle school. We knew exactly where we wanted to go to college, what professions we would occupy, the millions of dollars we would have by forty, the names of the two kids we would have with our cute crush, and the series of top-of-the-line cars and homes we would acquire over the course of our lives. Most of us dreamt of lives with minimal struggles and hardships. We envisioned lives superior to that of our parents and long for the day that we’d be able to elevate them from their present, oftentimes disadvantaged, positions.

However, as it is commonly posited, “life happens”.

You are forced to live a reality that is quite different from what you had visualized. It is as though you have had the air knocked from your chest after having been flung from a swing ride. Instead of owning that dream business, you find yourself working at a burger joint and being supervised by a brainless moron or home without a job and still living off your parents. ‘Where did I go wrong?’ you ask yourself. You did all the right things; you applied yourself while at school and got good grades. You paid your dues! So, why aren’t things going your way…the right way?

Nevertheless, what you might have failed to acknowledge is the fact that there is no set way or path to success and that your present situation does not have to determine the position you’ll occupy in the future. To appropriately handle the unfortunate situation that you’re handed it is salient that you begin reassessing your earlier plans for ‘fame and fortune’. In conducting this reassessment you are not expected to lessen the level at which you had planned to succeed, it simply calls for you to tweak the trajectory and pace at which you attain your desired goals in an effort to successfully maneuver the roadblocks along life’s rugged path. 

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