07/24/2024

I’m a Millennial

Of course, I have text anxiety

My success story might look different from others’. Benefit from the lessons I learned in my attempt to pass the CAE exam.

The Plan

I have always been a planner. Give me something to plan, organize or coordinate, and I'm in my happy place. As an adolescent, I learned how to balance my schoolwork while playing competitive soccer. It taught me early on that with discipline comes success. While in our 20s, my now-husband and I decided to enter graduate school together. My goal was to complete a Master of Business Administration and then take the CAE exam shortly after. I wanted to check these professional goals off my list before getting married and having children.

After two years of working full-time and attending grad school classes in the evenings, I successfully completed the MBA program at Elmhurst University. Then, it was onto the CAE exam — but things didn’t go according to my neatly organized plan.

Please select this link to read the complete article from ASAE’s Center for Association Leadership.