Career meme

1. 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.

1. Professor
2. Biologist
3. Epidemiologist
4. Technical Writer
5. Writer
6. Communications Specialist
7. ESL Teacher
8. Foreign Language Instructor
9. Scientist
10. Microbiologist
( All my results )

Note: this list is the one they gave me after I clicked the "Answer more questions to improve my results" button and answered 64 more questions. Before I did that, my third result was "taxidermist," which is just about the worst job I could possibly have.

"Psychologist," my current career plan, is all the way down at #33. That's because, even though the job description acknowledges several different types of psychologists, the questions determining my interest were geared toward counseling, and I'm not interested in that. I suppose my ideal job would be a combination of "psychologist," "researcher," and "professor," but the description of "professor" (my #1 result) was actually really close to what I want to do. I used to be neutral toward the idea of teaching, but the more classes I take, the more I find myself noticing what the professor is doing right, what they're doing wrong, and how I would do things differently.

Other jobs I would be interested in, either as careers or as hobbies: writer (5), scientist (9), print journalist (16), activist (17), critic (19), translator (26), inventor (30). I'm not clear on the difference between a researcher and a scientist, or why the latter was four places higher than the former.

"Bookbinder" showed up as #23. Maybe I should go with Grandpa to volunteer repairing books at the library.