Tacit's First Meme
Sep. 13th, 2007 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tacit1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/;
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark;
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions;
4. Post the top ten results.
Why didn't I do this five years ago when it might have helped!? It's actually pretty accurate, so kudos to somebody. All the careers I ever seriously considered are in there - except the one I ended up doing. Why is it that these career thingies never suggest 'screw those schmucks, work for yourself!'?
1.Artist
2.Translator (If my Spanish/French were better, this would kick ass)
3.ESL Teacher
4.Interpreter
5.Optometrist
6.Writer (This was my plan throughout my teens - before I realised that finishing stuff was a requirement)
7.Exhibit Designer
8.Physical Therapist (This tempted me for a while, but that may be entirely Due South related)
9.Physicist (My degree was set to be astrophysics until the very last minute, when I realised that if I did psychology, I wouldn't have to go to any lectures)
10.Athletic Trainer (No. Just... No.)
11.Potter (Have 10 kilos of clay in my room, right now.)
12.Pharmacist
13.Foreign Language Instructor
14.Industrial Designer
15.Biomedical Engineer
16.Music Teacher / Instructor
17.Pharmacologist
18.Chemical Engineer
19.Winemaker (Wuh?)
20.Astronomer
Speaking of careers, Workhouse is up to the upstairs windows!
Courses laid:
Dude.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark;
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions;
4. Post the top ten results.
Why didn't I do this five years ago when it might have helped!? It's actually pretty accurate, so kudos to somebody. All the careers I ever seriously considered are in there - except the one I ended up doing. Why is it that these career thingies never suggest 'screw those schmucks, work for yourself!'?
1.Artist
2.Translator (If my Spanish/French were better, this would kick ass)
3.ESL Teacher
4.Interpreter
5.Optometrist
6.Writer (This was my plan throughout my teens - before I realised that finishing stuff was a requirement)
7.Exhibit Designer
8.Physical Therapist (This tempted me for a while, but that may be entirely Due South related)
9.Physicist (My degree was set to be astrophysics until the very last minute, when I realised that if I did psychology, I wouldn't have to go to any lectures)
10.Athletic Trainer (No. Just... No.)
11.Potter (Have 10 kilos of clay in my room, right now.)
12.Pharmacist
13.Foreign Language Instructor
14.Industrial Designer
15.Biomedical Engineer
16.Music Teacher / Instructor
17.Pharmacologist
18.Chemical Engineer
19.Winemaker (Wuh?)
20.Astronomer
Speaking of careers, Workhouse is up to the upstairs windows!
Courses laid:
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41 / 58 (70.0%) |
Dude.
And every day this week, a total stranger has come up to me at work and told me what a great job I'm doing. It's happened a lot lately and every time I have this momentary indecision where I'm not sure if I'm:
a) Irritated because they'd never have said that to a boy. I went to what was possibly the most hard core feminist school in the country and when we left it at 18, hardly any of my friends really saw the point of men. Socially, things have... evolved. Men=good. Career-wise, I've given many a tradesman something to think about, which I'm so very proud of.
or b) shiny-happy-smug because it's such a gratifying thing to hear.
Happy wins. It wins by far. I haven't given a tradesman a fight on the subject of competency for months. Possibly because I haven't really seen the point of having them around...
a) Irritated because they'd never have said that to a boy. I went to what was possibly the most hard core feminist school in the country and when we left it at 18, hardly any of my friends really saw the point of men. Socially, things have... evolved. Men=good. Career-wise, I've given many a tradesman something to think about, which I'm so very proud of.
or b) shiny-happy-smug because it's such a gratifying thing to hear.
Happy wins. It wins by far. I haven't given a tradesman a fight on the subject of competency for months. Possibly because I haven't really seen the point of having them around...