Career Goals

State your 'Short term' and 'Long term' goals- sounds familiar? I sat to write my SOP and it left me pondering. Career goals? You mean the team work, maximising efforts kind? Not quite, personally here are a set of realistic short term and long term career goals that I have set for myself. Trust me these goals are easy to relate to and much simpler than the "Working effectively to achieve.. blah blah" sort.



Short term career goal: To fly a low cost airline with my own money

Long term career goal : While flying the low cost carrier when I realise that am hungry and I am not going to get any refreshments from the crew, I should be able to afford the sandwich which they sell on board and not gape at the co-passenger busy tucking in the 'Aloo ka paratha' and 'masala chai' that he brought packed in his hand baggage- Tiffin carrier and a thermos flask

Short term career goal : To be able to buy a car

Long term career goal: To be able to afford the petrol that the car consumes (Well with petrol prices going up high, the next status symbol will be the amount of petrol your car consumes and not the car itself, so effectively 10 Lit per week Maruti 800 is a higher status symbol than 10 lit per 2 weeks Ford Icon)



Short term career goal : To be able to afford a post paid connection for my cell phone

Long term career goal : To be able to actually pay the bills at the end of the month and continue the connection (And not switch back to pre paid connection after emptying my savings account in the bank to pay the post paid bills or even worse start collecting one Rupee coins to use PCO booths - as a more viable option)


Short term career goal: To be able to afford an air conditioner in the peak of summer

Long term career goal : To actually get myself to use the AC without noting down the number of units the AC consumes per hour, deriving at an average and tactfully timing the AC to function within affordable limits (Phew! I can assure you this task is more tiring than a walk out in the mid-day sun on a sweltering day)

All said and done, since these goals will not be appreciated on paper let me get back to the jargon now.."Effective utilisation....."