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Goals for Fall:

• Experiment w/ materials and resources that are accessible to us at RISD: Try new things.
• Keep thinking of my language within design: degree project.
• Get photography done for website.
• Update resume and portfolio.
• Make website and business cards.
• Keep in contact w/ connections in Europe.
• Work in shops w/ James and Jeff on shop tech: aquire more knowledge in machines.
• Attend a Better World by Design.
• Attend career services events on entrepeneurship and business.
• Balance my life and not only work: go out and laugh and forget risd ever existed, exercise 3 times a week

Goals for year:

• Take a Brown class about entrepeneurship.
• Take a class on Art therapy/ complete psychology concentration.
• Improve in Rhino.
• Finish required credits to graduate.
• Apply to 15-20 job positions: design studios/ psychiatry+ art therapy/ shop tech
• Build contact list of manufacturers, businesses that could help.
• Maintain relationships: Network w/ design studios I know and keep developing relationships w/ teachers/ shop techs/ alumni.
• Hopefully exhibit in Milan.
• Keep working on side projects collaborating w/ 2 possible future partners of studio.
• Try to sell work: either collaborative or my own.
• Cross country bike ride

Goals within the next 2 years:

• Work for a studio: junior designer or designer or part time education: $30,000+ income salary ($20/hour) – I am open to ending up anywhere in the world.
• Wherever it is that I end up, settling down there for 2-3 years.
• Volunteer time working for psychiatrist/art therapist: learning more about this line of work/ possibly looking into graduate school.
• Working on personal projects: selling work, hopefully in a fair (Milan, ICFF, Miami, Holland…)
• Having a life because I am a workaholic: making friends, developing relationships, fitness
• Travel – South America is the next destination.
• Maintain relationships w/ people I care about: go see them.

Goals within 5 years:

• Designer at studio making $40,000-45,000 minimum in a studio I like
• Go to fairs for this studio
• OR psychatrist/ practicing art therapy (grey area)
• OR teaching part time any of the subjects mentioned/ working part time on designs for my own studio: investing in tools/ space for a studio?
• Have a pet

Goals by 10 year mark:

• Self- employed design studio making $100,000
• work w/ people: teaching or helping psychologically.
• Still work w/ people that want/need art therapy.
• Have a HAPPY family.