One of the common threads many successful people share is that they developed a sense of direction relatively early in life.

One of the common threads many successful people share is that they developed a sense of direction relatively early in life. At the same time, it is common for people to enter and even graduate from college with little idea of what they wanted to do. Similarly, many people reach middle age only to ask, How did I end up here?" The following article gives great guidance for developing your own career plan: Patricia Buhler, "Managing in the 90s" Supervision, May 1997. Identify the major assumptions and environmental trends on which you base your plan and what parts of your plan do you think will be the hardest to achieve?

The major assumptions and environmental trends on which I base my plan are my careerinterests. There are several steps that I have taken in order to be able to manage my careerdevelopment. My...