A Concise Treatise on my Career Goals

It is the season of annual performance reviews and the unavoidable questions: What are your career goals? Where do you see yourself in five years?

Prestige, influence, and the "career ladder" lure the achieving tendency in me. Vice-President? I could do that.

However, when I stop to look mindfully up the "career ladder," the most prominent additions I see are more work, more time, and more stress.

Is that my goal? Is that how I see myself in five years? Of course not.

My career goals are 1) to be happy, 2) to be well, and 3) to live my mission. If an opportunity moves me in this direction, I'll pursue it. If not, then No.