Personal and carreer goals.

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List of personal or career goals I anticipated in accomplish within the next five years after graduation:

Ÿ Travel.

Strategic plan: after graduate from Baruch, I plan to spend at least two months traveling around Europe and go back to my birth city, Hong Kong.

Ÿ Get my CPA license.

Strategic plan: after graduate from Baruch, I plan to work for a CPA firm to utilize my knowledge and skills that I have attained and enroll into a CPA workshop. I plan to give myself a two year period to prepare for the CPA examination.

Ÿ To buy my own house.

Strategic plan: once I start working, I plan to save half of my annual salary and hopefully within the next five years I will have enough money to pay for the down payment of my new house. My target saving would be at least $150,000. My ideal house would be located around Queens.

Ÿ Get into graduate school.

Strategic plan: after attained the above two goals, my next plan would be to go to graduate school, majoring in accounting. My plan is to get reimburse from my company to finance me to go to graduate school.

General information about me.

My name is Kyle Lai. I was born on March 2, 1985, in a little island called Hong Kong. I came to NYC ten years ago when I was 12 years old. When I first arrived in the United States, I was afraid and pessimistic about my life since I can hardly speak English. Ten years later, I am a college student, attending one of the most highly acknowledge university in the city with a optimistic future of making many of my dreams come true.

Currently, I am a full time student at Baruch College pursuing a bachelor degree in accounting and a minor degree in psychology. This is my fifth year in Baruch College and expected to graduate in spring 2008. One of the reasons I decided to major in accounting is because of my interest in mathematic and the opportunity this field provides. After graduate with my bachelor degree, I anticipate on getting my CPA license and in the near future establishing my own accountant firm.

Other than being a student, I am a banker working in Commerce Bank. I have been working at Commerce for about a year and a half. I started working in Commerce Bank as a teller and soon I was promoted to be a banker. In term of working experience, I started working when I was 16 year old, working at a day care center as a tutor. In addition, I was a medical record clerk at a health clinic and currently, I am a banker.

Even though most of my time has been devoted to school and work, I tried to spare some leisure time for my hobbies. Some of my hobbies included singing karaoke, going to the gym, and cooking. I also enjoy going out to dinners with friends, trying different restaurants around the city.

Furthermore, I would consider myself as an ambitious and aggressive person when it comes to accomplish my task and assignment. Lastly, I consider myself as a considerate person when it comes to my friends and families.