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Did you meet your business or career goals for 2021?
Posted by Wendell on December 3, 2021 at 6:02 pmIt’s already December and I find myself thinking about the goals I set for my business early in the year. I didn’t quite make it to all of my goals — but some of them I over-achieved. That’s a good thing, right? I guess you could say I made up for the shorted goals with the ones that went overboard.
What about you? If you have a surveying business, did you meet your business goals? Did you meet your career goals?
Perhaps you didn’t set any goals. But as you look back over the past year, how did you do? What do you want to do better in 2022?
I’m starting this thread in hopes that we can spark new ideas for each other and make 2022 an excellent year for all of us. 🙂
david-kendall replied 2 years, 3 months ago 29 Members · 35 Replies- 35 Replies
I am still around to aggravate and annoy everyone. Goal met.
What astonishes me is that we are so near the year 2022. That used to be the stuff of science fiction, way, way in the future. When I was a teenager I couldn’t even imagine time that far out.
We had a great year with great clients. Surveying has kept me very healthy. From sternum up I’m solid muscle from walking miles carrying a rover ???? but from sternum down I’m carrying an extra eight pounds from pigging out ?? .
- Posted by: @bruce-small
I’m carrying an extra eight pounds
I’ll bet that the majority on here would trade.
. At this point if I’m still above ground it’s a great year!! ????
I was hoping this year that interest rates would climb out of the gutter. If that happened I would have a better chance of living off the interest earned by my ‘cookie jar money’ and hanging up my plumb bob.
That’s OK. I’m planning on living to 100. So maybe next year…. 🙁
It doesn’t feel like I’ve worked all that much this year, but when I look at the books I see that net profit is about average. I’m still a year or two away from retirement, so it’s good to know that I can cruise through a year and still earn a decent income.
Thought not exactly a goal — since I don’t have a lot of control over it — I’ve been doing more litigation support in the last couple of years, which I’ve been enjoying.
Goals? Ha!
I would have to say that I’m going backwards and in a worse position professionally and financially than I was at this time last year.
- Posted by: @bruce-small
I’m carrying an extra eight pounds
Maybe you should cash some of those checks you are carrying around and let the bank hold your money.
After surviving 2020 and having covid twice from the place I used to work finding a new job that ended up to be a bad job and then a job that I turned down that came back and boomeranged me back into an even better job I got to say just let it flow sometimes just letting it flow gets to where you want to be all the hard work behind it seems like it was easy at the time but when you look back you realize everything you did mattered and it made what happens now matter more.
I??m still trying to decide if this is a job, career, calling, vocation, or way of life.
Man, I’m not sure. goals .. ?
Doubled my rates.
- Posted by: @bill93
Does that make you Full-bubble now?
Means I am twice as aware that I only know half of it.
No business for me, but I met my career goals for the year:
- Complete my Associates in Land Surveying and Geomatics
- Complete at least one level of CST
- Gain my FAA Part 107 License
Next years goals will be a little more difficult to achieve- Pass the FS exam and gain CST level 2 status.
- Posted by: @dleidigh
Pass the FS exam and gain CST level 2 status.
I believe that if you can pass the FS the top level CST stuff will be a slam dunk.
@paden-cash You look pretty good for 99
Well, since I had planned to retire in October, 2020, and didn’t (got promoted instead), every day I worked in 2021 exceeded my career goals. I did pad my eventual monthly retirement amount significantly, but gave up a year of retired life to do it. Working from home for the past 21 months with zero commute made it a bit more desirable. Still, I am just one bad meeting away from pulling the plug. That is a pretty nice feeling in itself, although I plan to stay involved in others ways…on my terms.
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