Get a job!
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?
NEW GOAL
DUDE I would love to have this as my job:
The viewer comments are freaking great on this one.
Food styling’s where it’s at. Apparently to get into the career it’s recommended that you go to culinary school, though, so that dream’s pretty much shot. Either way, though…rockin’.
Today’s song: Party in the U.S.A. by Miley Cyrus (shut up, it’s fun to dance to)
If you don’t understand the material conditional, then the humor of this sentence is lost
Ugh. I’m conflicted. Well, that’s nothing new—what’s different this time is the fact that I’m conflicted about my career choice. Shocking, I know!
I’m really, really, really into philosophy right now, and I’m really, really, really stressing out about the statistics part of my Psychometrician plan (which is essentially the entirety of the plan). Why are these two things occurring simultaneously? Two reasons:
1. Leibniz
2. Teetering on the border between an A and a B in Sample Survey Methods
So I’m basically chalking this confliction up to the fact that I’m really enthused about a specific philosopher we’re studying while being way too stressed out over one of my stats classes. I’m not going to give in to this confliction. I don’t think I could build a philosophy teaching career around a single man I’m obsessed with (though if a university would let me teach a class solely on Leibniz, that would be AMAZING), and I don’t think a single stats class should intimidate me to the point where I’m willing to give up the career that sounds like it was made for me.
So yeah. Just thought I needed to talk (or write) that out so I could put it in stone.
As much as Leibniz rocks my socks, I love psychometrics. It’s what I was born to do.
But if I could do both at some point in my life, that would be freaking awesome.
Career-a-size Me, Cap’n!
Okay.
So I’ve decided, I think, what I specifically want to do in the field of psychology. I know the majority of people majoring in psychology want to do clinical work. I, on the other hand, want to stay as far away from it as possible.
I’ve always had a thing with data and statistics—I like to analyze data, check correlations, and find percentages (what a total nerd, eh?). So I figure I want to go into quantitative and psychometric psychology, which basically deals with the design, execution, and validity of tests and the data received from said tests (tests being IQ, personality, and achievement tests for the most part). It sounds like stuff I’d like to do. Plus the $200,000 a year salary sounds pretty good, too.
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