Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Future Stuff

My internship is up at the end of May and I have/want to start thinking about what I'm going to do when that happens. I also really have/want to sit down with my boss and see what he is thinking come the end. I've heard lots of things from people I work with, but nothing at all from him. Unfortunately I suck at these things! I hate having to have talks and blah blah blah so I thought it might help me if I made a list of what I want to happen come end of May.

Personal
  • Pass my 2 current classes and finish the last class required for my Masters.
  • Take a few months off this summer/fall to finish my classes and have some fun
  • Decide upon a location of the earth that I want to live/decide if I want to stay in Chicago, unfortunately this will probably be determined by jobs available
  • Start looking into job opportunities, but where?

Work

  • I want to be out of the office and on-site at least 50% of the time.
  • I want to be more hands on and performance based design than code-consulting
  • I would love to be able to travel
  • I would like to stay with RJA if a position that fulfilled most of these wants was offered. Furthermore I would like to research different RJA offices to see what types of work they most frequently do. How does one go about that?
  • I don't think I want to stay in the actual Chicago office unless it's with International and I'm gauranteed traveling (frequently). Frequent travel, do you even feel like you're living somewhere?

All very vague and absolutely nothing concrete. That's the norm for me, unfortunately this is goign to be bothering me for the next two months....hopefully warmer weather comes to distract me.

2 comments:

Bayjb said...

Great list. It's nice to lay out what you want to accomplish, helps make it more of a doable reality

Hal said...

Yea that's what I was hoping it would do. Fingers crossed!