IDT in Various Settings

BUSINESS/INDUSTRY: If I were applying for a new job today, I would lean toward business, or industry, for a Fortune 500 company. Although working as an Instructional Design Technologist for the military, or in the medical field is of great interest to me. I feel like with my background and experience as an interactive designer, I am best suited in a business setting.
I can see myself working in a team where I have multiple roles because my prior experience has allowed me to wear many different hats: Multimedia designer (interactive designer), graphic designer, copy writer, project manager, and eventually team leader. I like collaborating with different business leaders and stakeholders. I am savvy communicating through various mediums and can contribute to a team working in real-space, or virtual environment. I did it for years prior to working as a high school teacher in a K-12 setting, I am extremely comfortable working online, independently, during a Pandemic and would certainly like to work virtually again.

MASTERS: By acquiring my master's degree, I will feel like I will have better insight into different training strategies and become familiar with the rhetoric needed to communicate with other instructional designers. I want to lead, or manage teams of instructional designers as well, and I think seeing my degree through will help establish a credibility needed to take on those roles as an instructional designer in any situation beyond this experience. 

ALTERNATIVE: My forever plan certainly includes higher learning as one of my long-term objectives. However, in a perfect world, if my Plan A does not work out, I would like to explore military instructional design. I say perfect world because I am older than the age limit that I can join any military branch, so I would have to work in, or with a government contracted agency to work on a military instructional design project – I think. If I get the opportunity, I will embrace the idea of creating instruction for blended learners, for the future, with the end game being to protect service personnel, civilians and commodities.