Long, long ago (2005) in a galaxy far, far away (Seattle) I went and got professional aptitude testing done. It was super cool and involved a lot of different tests. One of these tests was the simple Holland Code or the Holland Occupational Theme. By answering a bunch of questions, the test gives you three of six letters, each corresponding to a personality type in the context of a working environment. The letters are A (artistic), I (investigative), R (realistic), C (conventional), and E (enterprising).

For whatever reason I was reminded of this test this afternoon. I don’t remember what my old results were, but I found an online version and took it again. Apparently my strengths lie in I, C, and A, in that order. With this code, my “recommended careers” include: archivist, statistician, anthropologist, desktop publisher, technical writer, or mathematician.

Here’s the link to the test I took. What’s your three-letter code and corresponding occupations?