Professional Goals Essay

Business Foundations has assisted me in pursuing my academic and professional goals. My academic goals are to be able to learn as much as I can about in business which will lead me to a successful professional career in business. This class will assist in my goals of academics because it gave me a foundation of all the different disciplines in business. Business Foundations was a building block of my future classes that I will take in my academic career in order to graduate with a BBA in Operations Management. Business Foundations has assisted me in my professional goal because it taught me how to work on a team. Being a part of a team and learning how to do effectively can help in being successful and achieving my goals in my professional career. My professional goal is to have a career with a job that I enjoy working it every day. It would be a job that doesn’t feel like a job and It’s something I would be happy waking up and going to do it every day.

Prior to taking Business Foundations I had a wide variety of perspectives on all the different disciplines of business. When I first thought about business I

I applied over the summer and got accepted in the Fall of 2016. Getting accepted into LCB is an honor and it took extensive preparation to get accepted. An obstacle that stood in my way of getting accepted was the having a competitive GPA. Keeping my GPA up took long hours of hard work and continuous studying at the library. Another obstacle that stood in my way was all the distractions that college has to offer. Some nights I had to think to myself, “Should I go out or should I stay in and study?” Mathematics courses have always been a struggle for me in my academic career. Taking Applied Calculus was a great obstacle to overcome and pass the class. Obstacles get in the way, but to be successful in life you have to persevere through the rough