Ten Years (Jan.27)

I foresee that the next ten years of my life will be extremely hectic. My goals for the following ten years involve getting married, starting my career as an architect, going back to school for my masters, and possibly starting a family. To achieve all of these things and retain my sanity will be a miracle. (Although, my boyfriend Torrey says that first I will need to obtain sanity.)

The first milestone for me in the next ten years will be my graduation in August. After that I plan on finding a job in a construction related field while I wait for the following May to arrive.

May 2009 is the month that Torr and I have decided to get married. He will be graduating that month and then get commissioned with the National Guard immediately afterwards. I will of coarse move with him and find a job near the base that he gets posted too.

After that plans get kind of blurry for me and Torrey. At some point I will make my way back to college in order to become a licensed architect later down the road. However, I don’t believe that I will be getting my license in the next ten years. Don’t get me wrong, I really want to be licensed, but starting a family and being with Torr are one step higher on my list of priorities.

The next ten years of my life will be focused on our family because I firmly believe that this is the strongest foundation one can lay for the rest of their life.

Belated Blog (Jan. 20)

This video was extremely interesting because it highlighted the fact that not only has the internet created a whole new means of high-speed communication but it has provided us with the unique opportunity to reorganize the way the record our information. This in turn leads to billions of new opportunities with which we can connect with one another.

For the person entering the workforce these new connections mean that the fraternity of “good-ol’ boys” no longer holds the key to any one person’s success. There are even sites that were created solely to match employees to employers.

For those in the workforce it has become easier to stay in touch with the most recent developments in their fields. For example, my mom is an X-ray Tech. and she is able to learn the newest technology for her field from her couch at home. This helps her to not lose her job to techs that have recently graduated college.

Overall the idea that prevailed the most to me throughout this video was that we have to rethink the way we set up databases so that this abundance of digital information can be successfully navigated.

First Note

The first week of classes has come to an end and ... well that means that the rest are about to begin. Being that this is my last semester in college I hope that this business writing class will leave me with some real world skills for proper communication in the work place.

Fingers Crossed
-Jessica