Your Life – What are you going to do with it?

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<p>This critical question should be on the mind of every college student, but is it?</p> <br /><p>After being under Mom &amp; Dad&rsquo;s protection for 20+ years college students graduate and have to find a job &ndash; any job.</p> <br /><p>The question: &ldquo;what do you want to be&rdquo; has not been on their radar screen, either?</p> <br /><p>Since college graduates will have to work for (hopefully) about 40 years after graduation and then live for another 20+ years in their lives after work, the answers to these life-critical questions are pretty important. However, if they have never been thought about then graduates are doomed to the lifelong &ldquo;job cycle&rdquo; scenario.</p> <br /><p>More importantly, they are giving up control of their destiny to someone else and contributing their sweat equity to someone else&rsquo;s profitability. The census results demonstrate that the majority of the work force doesn&rsquo;t earn enough money to live comfortably during their work life, nor retire well, either.</p> <br /><p>You would think that as a result of all that they learned throughout their college experience and observed in their extended family, college graduates would develop a &ldquo;career plan&rdquo; to insure a greater level of success than all those that they know who haven&rsquo;t been successful &ndash; right? WRONG !</p> <br /><p>Since very few have thought of what they want to be or what they want to do with their life, a career plan is nonexistent for the majority of the working population. The simple common sense process of developing a plan for 40 years of work is ignored by many. The questions are obvious: where am I now? where do I want to be and by when? and, how am I going to get there &ndash; quarter-by-quarter and year-by-year.</p> <br /><p>As I have said many times: <strong>Nobody plans to fail&hellip;they just fail to plan.</strong></p> <br /><p>Professor Robert M. Donnelly</p>