Goal Setting

When I was an Engineering major (for one semester) in college, one of the things we were taught by our instructor is Goal Setting. Mostly for your career for work-life balance. He insisted that modern people miss out on this and end up unhappy because they find themselves in boring jobs doing repetitive crap and leads to self-destructive behavior. Think of every Office Slut or Office Bully you've ever dealt with. Yeah. Those are examples.

My teacher recommended setting goals based on the time scale you expect to accomplish them.

• Three month goals
• One Year Goals
• Two year Goals
• Five Year Goals
• Ten Year Goals

Adjust them every 3 months to see how your doing and to remind yourself what you career plans are, and if they still make sense. My own goals are quite reduced from those heady days of opportunity from 2006-2008, before I took that horrible job at the cancer factory. Since the economy is crap, and the general population voted for Socialism the same way it voted for alcohol prohibition after WW1. Bonehead move, made the mafia stronger and made people who were ambivalent about booze drink to flip off the entire govt and all those religious women from the Womens Temperance Union. This is what women thought was most important once they got the vote? Not child welfare. Not common-law marriage, not funding programs for battered wives: preventing men drinking off their job stress. Yeah. Not too bright. Al Capone and other mafia figures became powerful smuggling and selling booze from Canada thanks to the WTU. Nice going.

I still use the above method and review my goals. They're pretty small goals at this point. I encourage every reader to create and update their own list. It often gives you something to do, something better than suffering the latest Hollywood remake of a classic 80's action flick, or yet another superhero movie, or yet another endless laughtrack sitcom or sporting event. Use your time more wisely.