Hey Jon, I read your 'avoid career switch' advice over the career goal essay. To some extent, I agree with you, because such goals are risky and might negatively impact the employment report of the school.
But on the other side of the coin, Adcom wanna hire someone who possess the potential to achieve some exceptional success in future, say entrepreneurship, because such successes could gain fame and donations for the schools in future.
Furthermore, if I state that I will go back to my current industry, it will lead to another problem here. Take myself as an example, I am an auditor in big 4 accounting firms. I don't need a MBA to achieve the career progression in my firm. Then why MBA? And why now?
Hence, I think it's a dilemma, on one hand, we need practical goals, ideally just go back to our industry, on the other hand, we need to demonstrate our potential to achieve exceptional success in future? Does it mean we have to find a balance between the two sides? I would like to hear more from you over the topic?
In addition, I heard two voices over the long-term career goal.
One says the we have to be very specific about the detail of long-term goal to assess whether it's achievable and realizable. The short-term goal is not important comparing to the long-term one.
Another voice is that long-term goal is just a vision, no need to be very detail while the short-term goal plays a more important role.
I would like to hear your comments over the two voices. Thank you very much.
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eople who know what they are good at, people who spend time building a track record, and people who take smart steps to achieve their goals. 
