What is your career plan?

When people ask about my future career plans,
I smile a little differently these days.

Because at 60, I no longer look at life the same way I did when I was younger.

There was a time when career meant climbing, achieving, chasing the next opportunity. And when I reflect over my life, yes—there are things I wish I had done differently. Chances I probably should have taken. Ways I could have invested more in myself.

But life is too short to live buried in regret.

So these days, my plans look different.

I look forward to retirement—not as an ending, but as a new beginning. A season where time becomes less about survival and more about intention.

Maybe that is my career plan now:
learning how to truly live.

Making memories with my family that will last long after I’m gone. Reminding my children and grandchildren to pursue their dreams while they are still young enough to chase them fully.

To travel.
To create.
To try.
To believe in themselves.

But while they’re busy building their lives, I also want them to remember something else—

Make time for the little things.

Because those little things become the big things later.

Spend time with your family.
Especially your children.

Go to the school events.
The practices.
The recitals.
The games that may seem insignificant in the moment—but mean everything to them.

Show up.

Because time moves fast.

One day you’re holding their hand crossing the street… and the next, you’re wondering where the years went.

And those moments?
You can never get them back.

That’s why I believe our greatest investment will never be money, titles, or careers.

It’s the people we love.

So if I had to describe my future plans now, they’re simple:

I want to be as good of a grandmother as my mother was.

I want to create the kind of memories that stay with people forever.

I want the moments to matter.

Because at this stage in life, success looks less like accomplishment…
and more like presence.

And that’s the career I want most now.