Career Path Plan

Currently my career path has yet to be decided. My only present goal that is certain is that I will continue my education at the graduate level. I have hopes that with more knowledge in my desired area will come a clearer picture as to what my future may hold. I was pleasantly surprised to have several of the graduate programs I applied to accept me into their program. Several even gave me very nice financial assistance offers. In the end I chose North Carolina State Universitys operations research graduate program. NC State has a very good reputation and ultimately the offer they gave me was to good to pass up. So next semester I will be attending graduate classes at NC State while being a teaching assistant in either a math or computer science related capacity. I believe this will serve a double purpose, since I have tossed around the idea of becoming a college professor. This would provide a wonderful opportunity to see if I would enjoy that type of a career.

Hopefully the further education I receive while obtaining my masters degree and quite possibly my doctorate will help me in my career decision-making process. Now on the verge of completing my final semester of undergraduate school, it is scary not knowing what I plan on doing. The way I see it though, this is part of the challenge. I enjoy the journey that awaits me. All I hope, is looking back forty or fifty years down the road, I will have enjoyed my journey and I will have taken full advantage of all the opportunities life has handed to me.