Here are my professional goals:
1. See my spec scripts get made, take on assignments.
2. Get script doctoring and screenwriting gigs. Writer, co-writer, script doctor, it's all good.
3. Continue writing occasional novels.
4. Earn a reputation for being easy to work with.
5. Use any reasonable success to leapfrog into directing.
6. I can act too, but that's another leapfrog project. Use any reasonable success to worm my way into sweet cameos, supporting roles (see Craig Mazin in Mythic Quest, hilarious).
7. Adapt God Emperor of Dune into a screenplay.