When I graduated from college, I had a plan. Although I may have fallen into, I had a clear vision of how I was going to start my career, and the trajectory was extremely predictable. Work in public accounting for a few years, move into the private sector, claw my way up the corporate ladder, be a big deal. Being the person\/professional\/colleague that people can feel entering the room. This was the thing that seemed really sexy to me as a senior graduating from business school, and if I\u2019m being honest with myself it still sort of does.
\nBut then I was accepted into Challenge Detroit and things start to change (very slowly) and I started questioning myself. Is this what I still wanted to do with my life? Being successful and being important in my community are still important things, but I don\u2019t know if that looks the same as it did a couple years ago. Even more so, the part of all of this (or maybe about life in general) is that the further you get in the journey, the less places are there for your life to branch off and to become something beyond what you could possibly expect. Is that really a bad thing though? At this point I can\u2019t tell, I have a great job, group of friends, apartment, and general outlook on life, but the further it gets from what I pictured for myself the more I am scared that it\u2019s too late to turn around\/change direction\/whatever.
\nI guess we will see, but for now, it\u2019s time to keep working hard, improving myself, and hopefully helping those around me do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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