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  1. Jan 2026
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    1. and three months from now:
      1. Be halfway done with my senior project
      2. Have finished all my graduation requirements or at least CEPs
      3. Made enough money to pay credit card
      4. Made enough money to pay rent
      5. Not lose my mind
    2. and six months from now:
      1. Have graduated
      2. Working full time while I look for a ocularist teacher
      3. Find an ocularist willing to teach me
      4. Start the apprenticeship
      5. Start working with ocularist instead of my current job
    3. Same question for this year. Set five goals for nine months from now:
      1. Have visited Brasil with my boyfriend
      2. Be accepted for an apprenticeship
      3. Get my drivers license
      4. Make enough money as apprentice to not have a second job
      5. Have started working with prosthetics
    4. Same question for two years from now, to be ready for Year 3.

      I will have joined an apprenticeship under a professional ocularist and have gone to my first seminar for a test.

    5. Now create a road map toward your five-year goals. What milestones will you need to have accomplished one year earlier (Year 4) to achieve your five-year goals?

      To be working ate the clinic full time I would have to have finished the apprenticeship period and be hired there.

    6. What milestones will you need to have accomplished in Year 3 in order to hit the Year 4 milestones?

      I would be in the apprenticeship program making sure I learn everything I can and putting enough hours into it.

    7. Where do you live? Where do you work? What kind of art do you make? How do you fund it? Where do you show it? How well known is it? Who is your audience? How big is your audience? Answering those questions should help you see what your medium-term goals are.

      I live in Greenville, SC. I work at Southeastern Ocularist Inc. I make ocular prosthetics. I am part of a paid apprenticeship program or I have finished and work there full time.

    8. Articulate Your Motivation, Purpose, and “Vision”

      Making art is one of the only things I ever felt proud of myself for doing. I want to be able to combine art and medicine and help people. Being an ocularist is the best of both worlds.