The career path that I have planned out for myself is to be a Physician’s Assistant (PA), more specifically working in the operating room with surgeons. I believe it is a great career choice for me, it fits my lifestyle and my interests perfectly. I am able to go into many different types of fields while being a PA. I also am able to move about without restriction. I can go from surgery to family practice, to cardiology, with no hesitation because we are prepared for all categories.
After learning a bit about being a businessperson and being an entrepreneur, I believe I would want to be an entrepreneur. My interpretation of being an entrepreneur was being able to work how you want to work, not necessarily the exact hours that you want, but work hours that you are comfortable with, and not working because others need you to. I also find being an entrepreneur is to have financial freedom and living comfortably, rather than pay check to pay check. I also would like to start a family someday, so being an entrepreneur is also the better pick, because I will be able to live a comfortable life, with hours that I can manage, and still spend lots of time with my family. However, just like we talked about in class, right now, and probably for the next five to ten years, I may not be living the entrepreneur lifestyle as much as the businessperson lifestyle. I have school to get through, paying off school, and just working to get myself a base to work up from. I know eventually, I will be living the entrepreneur lifestyle rather than businessperson’s lifestyle.
I believe that my PDP is very well in line with my thoughts and goals for my career path. My PDP addresses very clearly what I want to do for a career and a timeline in which I want to do it in. It doesn’t describe everything about living comfortably, but that is topic of general knowledge I believe and also relative.
At this very moment, it’s difficult to see what things I could change in order to become an entrepreneur. The reasons for that are mainly because of college and being the typical “poor college student.” So the financial freedoms as well as the setting my own hours can’t be improved upon all that much. What can be improved is my overall mind set. I know that I can be an entrepreneur, but convincing myself and doing the work is the biggest obstacle that is in my way. I also think that acquiring more information about how to get into PA school, and what PA school is like would benefit me and help prepare me for what is to come.
In my opinion, being an entrepreneur is not just starting and owning your own business. I believe it is being able to make yourself happy. It’s putting yourself in a good, comfortable life. Surrounding yourself with people that you enjoy the most and that can only help you improve your life, and ridding yourself of the ones that slow you down and want to drag you down. I think it is a fundamental concept to surround yourself with people that want to help you and for you to help them and not put yourself in situations that impede you from your goals and happiness.
