Professor Rodman
MKGT 341
5/11/15
Plan for Career in Marketing
The part of marketing that interests me the most is the fact that the numbers do not lie. If you put in the time and work, than you more than likely will see positive results. If you don’t like what is going on in your business and you need to make changes, you have the chance to look at all the numbers and find out exactly what the problem is and make adjustments. And of course one of the best numbers and what the best part of marketing is, is profit. Money makes the world go round and it is certainly a satisfying reward. And if your business is not turning a profit and making money then something has to change.
What I would like to do with my life after my undergraduate work is done was completely shaped off my marketing plan. After earning my degree of Health Care Management with a long term care track and Business minor I decided that graduate school just wasn’t for me. I felt that the student loans I had already piled up were enough and that I needed to start making money as fast as I could to start paying them off before the interest rates went up instead of going to school for 4 more years while piling up more debt with no way to pay it off. I also only took classes that I knew would be beneficial for me or that I needed to fulfill my degree requirements because I knew I wouldn’t want to waste my time with anything that would not benefit me with knowledge for real world experience.
I have had multiple hands on workshop classes since I have started here at Towson University in the Health care department. I have got to see what facilities such as hospices, home health care, nursing homes and retirements homes all run and look like. This has allowed me to gain useful real world knowledge on how the real world is going to be and what I’m personally going to have to do in order to achieve my goals and succeed in running my own business. I am looking to go into the Home