Career test

[bookzombie]

I took the career test that everyone seems to be doing recently. I'm not bothering to post the full results, but I was fascinated, and not a little amused, to see the top entry: Special Effects Technician.

And thus the proof that the test has a certain restriction: it only asks you what you are interested in, not what you are actually any good at! It could come out with 'Olympic Sprinter' but not take into account the fact you have a wooden leg. As someone with the practical artistic ability of a mouse with arthritis, I don't think I'm going to be changing careers anytime soon...

Comments

[kicking-k.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, yes. It reminds me of the test that we had to take at school, aged fourteen, which also asked us merely what we liked to do, not what we were good at.

It thought I should be an advertising copywriter, or if not, an art teacher, or if not, a writer. ("Qualifications required; none.")

I think now that I might have made an OK art teacher, but I cannot sell anything for the life of me unless I genuinely love it, and sometimes not then.

[phredd.livejournal.com]

If it's the same test I took, there was an option to ask a slew of questions about aptitude as well, which is why I got rated as fair or good for most of my top 40 careers and questionable for composer.