Wednesday, November 30, 2005

INVENTING?

I took Princeton Review's free career quiz . I'll cut and paste the results below in case I want to see them later. These forced-choice format things can be so one-sided. The style is, "Would you rather eat a fly or an ant?" I think I'm anything but quiet and solitary. But I guess I can be sometimes, like when I'm trying to write...

"People with blue Interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve creative, humanistic, thoughtful, and quiet types of activities. Blue Interests include abstracting, theorizing, designing, writing, reflecting, and originating, which often lead to work in editing, teaching, composing, inventing, mediating, clergy, and writing."

"People with yellow styles perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is orderly and planned to meet a known schedule. They prefer to work where things get done with a minimum of interpretation and unexpected change. People with a yellow style tend to be orderly, cautious, structured, loyal, systematic, solitary, methodical, and organized, and usually thrive in a research-oriented, predictable, established, controlled, measurable, orderly environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results. "

1 comment:

Pauline said...

I'm blue and yellow, too (I'm blue, da-bu-de-a-bu da...ehem! Sorry). These categories probably fit me pretty well, though, I know I couldn't work all day without people. I'd be a disaster area.

I didn't run into the question you referred to in your brief report, though I know I would prefer to eat an ant over a fly...I wonder how that would tip the scales of my career profile?