Career meme

[jedusor]

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
11. Stenographer
12. Market Research Analyst
13. Researcher
14. Dental Lab Tech
15. Biological Tech
16. Print Journalist
17. Activist
18. Criminologist
19. Critic
20. Political Aide
21. Television and Radio Reporter
22. Genetic Counselor
23. Bookbinder
24. Corporate Trainer
25. Medical Transcriptionist
26. Translator
27. Forensics Specialist
28. Pharmacologist
29. Announcer
30. Inventor
31. Optical / Ophthalmic Lab Technician
32. Real Estate Appraiser
33. Psychologist
34. Environmental Consultant
35. Magician
36. Pharmacy Technician
37. Tilesetter
38. Chemist
39. Chemical Engineering Tech
40. Ecologist

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.

Comments

[gerald_duck]

I get:

1. Mechanical Engineering Tech
   
2. Aerospace Engineer
   
3. Mechanical Engineer
   
4. Computer Engineer
   
5. Electrical Engineer
   
6. Engineering Tech
   
7. Physicist
   
8. Astronomer
   
9. Biomedical Engineer
   
10. Avionics Tech

…which is pretty plausible except it didn't register quite how strong my maths and software engineering is compared with my physics and mechanical engineering. Had I not discovered computers I might well have become an astrophysicist.

Then again, it's also pretty obvious. (-8

[gerald_duck]

How can "professor" be a career, without knowing what it would be a professor of?

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

*shrug* It lists "Doctor," "Writer," "Scientist," and other very vague career descriptions in addition to more specific ones like "Veterinarian" and "Technical Writer."

[gerald_duck]

I'd assume they meant a medical doctor by "doctor", but yes some of the others are almost as vague.