what is this person's end goal?

The end goal reads like a settled house with people in it, not a title or a milestone — and the cards show it only as a tendency, not a fact about anyone's private head.

Past: Queen of Cups reversed — the caring role got run down, or got turned inward until it stopped feeding anyone.
Present: Eight of Swords reversed — a stuck frame is loosening; the constraints on them look chosen or circumstantial rather than permanent, and something they thought fixed is coming loose.
Future: Ten of Cups upright — under that reading, where it lands is domestic warmth, belonging, the people around a table. Two of the three are Cups, so feeling and relationship are the main channel here; the career question is not the spine of this spread.

So: if what you can actually observe — where their evenings go, what they complain about, who they answer first when something breaks — matches a person stretched thin by caring for others, then Ten of Cups is a fair read of where they're headed. If those same signals instead show them chasing status, credentials, or a number, then the cups in this spread are describing mood, not destination, and you'd be reading the wrong layer.

Cards don't report anyone's inner motive, so this is a shape, not a reading of their mind.

Within 48 hours, do one thing alone: write down five things this person said yes to in the last month, unprompted. The list is the record — the Ten of Cups either shows up in it or it doesn't.

Who is this person — you, or someone you're asking about? The same spread reads differently depending on which.