1. Cesar Garcia
INTS 3301-001
January 3, 2015
Setting Goals
Cesar Garcia
Texas Tech University

2. Cesar Garcia
INTS 3301-001
January 3, 2015
Setting Goals
Long Term Goal:
My long-term career goal is to work for a competitive company in the natural gas and oil
industry and be well off financially. I would love to work or be working for Chesapeake Energy
or Occidental Petroleum as a company man or higher. I choose to work in the natural gas and oil
industry because I grew up around my whole life with my family. I want the natural gas and oil
to be my career until I retire. I also have high hopes in owning a company so I can retire at a
younger age. To be honest I really want the finer things in life. For example, I want good friends
and family, nice houses and trucks, a happy family of my own, success, and over to be happy. I
think being happy is the most important aspect to succeeding in life in the era we are now. What
I would need to do to achieve my goals is to work hard, but not with my back. I have to work
hard with my head. I have to be smarter than the person next to me, because he also has long-
term goals that he wants to reach as well. I work at Basic Energy Service now it relates to the
natural gas and oil industry. Right now I break my back at work while learning new knowledge
that I didn’t have before. This is also while attend college now, because without a college degree
it will take time to get a promotion. My plan to get to my long-term goal is to finish college and
get my degree, apply at both Chesapeake Energy and Occidental Petroleum, get hired because I
have connections at both companies, strive to be the best at my job, buy a house and get married,
and last but not least be happy with my job, close friends, and my loving family.
Short Term Goal:

3. Cesar Garcia
INTS 3301-001
January 3, 2015
The three short-term goals I have now is to finish school, apply for good natural gas and
oil jobs, and buy a house. These short-term goals are important to me because I feel like it’s
separating one from a graduated college student to a graduated young man. That to me is
important, because most graduated people want to find a good paying job when they finish
school. The reality behind all that is roughly about 27% of college students actually use their
degrees in their jobs. The other 73% are underpaid and living paycheck to paycheck. That’s why
the sort-term goals that I listed are important to me because I want to fall in the 27% finishing
college. That to me is separating a graduated college student from a graduating young man. In
order for me to become a graduated young man I first of all need to finish college. For me to
finish college I need to work hard in my classes and study smarter to get passing grades on my
exams. Practice makes perfect. Once I finish school or about to finish I start sending my
perfected resume to the companies I would love to work for. Seeing that I have connections on
the both companies I have a higher probability of getting hired on. Like everyone else in this
world, I want to be giving orders, not taking orders. My last short-term goal is to a buy a house
in a close area where I am going to be working. Then eventually buy bigger homes to move in to
when time comes. In order for me to buy a nice spacious house I would need to learn how to
save money. That’s why this semester I am taking a financial class on saving money and other
personal finances a person will undergo throughout his or her lifetime. It shows a person how to
do the finances on a house and what note to sign. The class is a really good class and it is
showing me a lot of different financial point of views. In order for me to purchase a house, I
would need to start spending money smarter, instead of blowing money. These are the most
important short-term goals to me at this stage in my life. Once I accomplish these goals then I
will move on to more short-term goals to better myself as a person.

4. Cesar Garcia
INTS 3301-001
January 3, 2015
Connection:
My three areas of concentrations are Organizational Leadership (General Business),
Natural Resource Management, and Health Applied Science. With my General Business
concentration, I want to make a business later in life after I learn all that there is to learn in
down-hole production. This concentration is going to help me become a better businessman
when dealing with transactions and making better business decisions. It is also going to help me
see things from a business stand point instead of making decisions for a quick profit. I am going
to see decisions for the steady profit, not the short-term profit. It is also going to help me retire at
a much earlier age than what most people do. The best thing about this particular concentration is
that I am going to feel charge, like I am a somebody not just a someone. The Natural Resource
Management is mainly for the oilfield. I can become a land-man. A land-man is someone that
goes to particular land where oil has been located. The land-man has to finds out who owns the
land and the mineral rights to the land before the company can start drilling. My Health Applied
Science can get me a job as a safetyman. A safetyman deals with prevention. He’s or her job is to
find anything that can cause the crew harm. The main goal for the safetyman is try and prevent
accidents that can and might occur on the job site. Try to get everyone back home to his or her
loved ones each and every single day after work. All of my concentrations relate to my long-term
goal. Each concentration is going to help me reach where I want to be in my life. Each of my
concentrations serves a purpose in my life, and I know by working hard and being goal
orientated that I will reach my goals. Every concentration is crucial to my future success.