Making a map to getting to your dream
Where do you see yourself in five years? Does anyone in university really know? We all have overall dreams that we wish to achieve, but sometimes we don’t have all the steps completely planned out. Being in your last year of university is the first time that there is no definitive next step as to how to get to your dream. From elementary school you went to high school, and from there, there were three options: university, college, or going out to find work. Those of us attending the University of Guelph picked university as our choice, and the major we thought that would get us closer to our dreams, although some of us even realized that we were working towards the wrong things and switched our dreams completely.
At the end of your university career, you need to figure out what your future employers want on your resume, and then attempt to make the right decisions to please them. We definitely have the drive and passion for our dreams – that’s why we are here pulling all nighters and why we eat “just after this last chapter.” We all want our dreams more than anything and have to find our own paths to them, whether the next step is grad school, internships, or taking a year off from school to make some money. We will get there on some sort of path in an unknown amount of time, but try telling that to family when you go home to visit. It is a hard concept to know your steps, and that is why we can only tell them our dream and our hopes to get to the end result.
University has taught us all the power of drive and endurance. Wherever your next step takes you, keep in mind the endurance and the fight you put up to get that degree, and shift your sights to your dream. It may be a while, but as long as you keep up the fight, you can get there. Let’s not measure by time, how many steps, or even what step we take; instead, let’s keep up the drive.
Drive and passion will not be the only aspect in getting our dream jobs, but it is what keeps us going and gets us to learn the other necessary things that the job requires. Drive and passion push us to figure out the next step. People should be asking you how much you want to get to your overall dream, not what your next step is.