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The career meme
Career meme:
1. Go here: http://www.careercruising.com/default.asp
2. Put in Username: [removed, see here for details.]
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top twenty results.
5. Bold preferences.
Wel, I didn't totally follow the meme, and didn't bold my preferences, instead I bolded all of them to separate them from my commentary. But it's not like you can't figure out which ones I'd like to do and which ones I'd not like to do. And I posted all of them, not just the top twenty.
It was decently accurate, though.
1. Special Effects Technician
Honestly? I'd love to do this. Monster-making in Hollywood would be ultra-cool, as well as other forms of special effects.
2. Electrician
I can see where this would be interesting - working with your hands while using your brain at the same time, working out wiring diagrams, solving problems, the satisfaction of a job well done when you flip a switch and a house gets illuminated without actually electrocuting anybody.
3. Electronics Assembler
Um. Sounds too much like assembly-line work to me.
4. Dental Lab Tech
GOD NO.
5. Costume Designer
Awesome. I took a class in this in undergrad, and love to make costumes. :)
6. Office Machine Repairer
OH GOD NO. I would like the challenge involved in solving problems, but not having to deal with the people who break the damn things.
7. Musical Instrument Builder and Repairer
Interesting. Might be fun.
8. Upholsterer
Um, no.
9. Plumber
Again, another one that would be interesting in the whole solving-problems thing, but then there's dealing with all the crap. Literally.
10. Cabinetmaker
Just another form of artist, only making stuff that has a useful function as well. Because I wouldn't be satisfied making dull, boring cabinets and would isntead be making reproduction Geore III furniture or something like that.
11. Composer
If I had any sort of musical background whatsoever besides one semester of piano in college to fill up a fine arts credit, sure!
12. Sign Maker
Er, well, if it's the sort of signs that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pzb does, possibly.
13. Comedian
Yes, I find humor much easier to write than most people. No, I do not want to get on stage and deliver the material night after night. COME ON PEOPLE I TOLD THE QUIZ I HATED WORKING WITH PEOPLE AND THERE'S NOTHING MORE LIKE WORKING WITH PEOPLE THAN PLAYING TO AN AUDIENCE. I suppose I could write material for a comedian. I wouldn't mind doing that.
14. Musician
If I had the ability to actually practice, this would be OK. I enjoyed the moment when a disparate collection of notes somehow became a tune in my fingers and head when I took piano (and when I played the violin back in middle school).
15. Machinist
Um, I ahve no idea what a machinist does. Sounds a bit industrial for my tastes.
16. Tool and Die Maker
Ditto.
17. Industrial Designer
Ditto.
18. Technical Writer
I could do it, most likely. But I don't think I'd want to.
19. Fashion Designer
I am apparently the only person who sees this as the same thing as Costume Designer.
20. Model Maker
See "special effects technician" above.
21. Animator
I wanted to be an animator when I was a kid. Then I realized I didn't have the patience to do it, thanks to the ADHD. Now that there are many more computer tools to play with, I could probably make a better go at it now.
22. Desktop Publisher
Well, yeah. I could see this.
23. Multimedia Developer
A catchall for someone who does desktop publishing, web design, animation, etc., etc. etc., IMHO.
24. Computer Programmer
Yup.
25. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
Oh, really? Ya think?
26. Graphic Designer
Yup.
27. Artist
Never in a million years!
28. Computer Animator
See above, under "animator"
29. Writer
Well, if I got off my ass and actually wrote...
30. Critic
Well, except that I tend to get annoyed at people I crit who spaz back at me. :D
31. Business Systems Analyst
You may laugh, but this was one of the most interesting classes I took in my recent stint in graduate school. I like analyzing data to discern patterns and then trying to optimize those patterns (it's part of computer programming). It's just that whole WORKING WITH PEOPLE, especially people who don't want to change their ingrained work habits to my system, which is CLEARLY the right one.
32. Manufacturing Machine Operator
Sounds way too assembly-line for me.
33. Video Game Developer
I could do this. If only every other teen, twenty-, and thirty-something on the ENTIRE PLANET weren't trying to get into the field, also.
34. Website Designer
*ahem*
35. Medical Illustrator
My cousin did this, until he became a signmaker. It might be interesting.
36. Database Developer
*shifty look*
*hides databases*
37. Web Developer
*ahem*
38. Translator
As other people on my f-list have said, I'd love to do this, if it weren't for that whole "having to speak another language" thing.
39. GIS Specialist
I really have no clue what this is, despite accompanying my dad to a conference on global GIS in Nairobi back in 1991.
40. Print Journalist
Except for that whole "deadline" and "working with people" thing...
Plz to be noting that "librarian" didn't even make the cut, although I expect they assume being a librarian has to do with working with books. It actually has little to do with working with books and everything to do with organizing information, which tends to fit right in with computer programming and web design.
1. Go here: http://www.careercruising.com/default.asp
2. Put in Username: [removed, see here for details.]
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top twenty results.
5. Bold preferences.
Wel, I didn't totally follow the meme, and didn't bold my preferences, instead I bolded all of them to separate them from my commentary. But it's not like you can't figure out which ones I'd like to do and which ones I'd not like to do. And I posted all of them, not just the top twenty.
It was decently accurate, though.
1. Special Effects Technician
Honestly? I'd love to do this. Monster-making in Hollywood would be ultra-cool, as well as other forms of special effects.
2. Electrician
I can see where this would be interesting - working with your hands while using your brain at the same time, working out wiring diagrams, solving problems, the satisfaction of a job well done when you flip a switch and a house gets illuminated without actually electrocuting anybody.
3. Electronics Assembler
Um. Sounds too much like assembly-line work to me.
4. Dental Lab Tech
GOD NO.
5. Costume Designer
Awesome. I took a class in this in undergrad, and love to make costumes. :)
6. Office Machine Repairer
OH GOD NO. I would like the challenge involved in solving problems, but not having to deal with the people who break the damn things.
7. Musical Instrument Builder and Repairer
Interesting. Might be fun.
8. Upholsterer
Um, no.
9. Plumber
Again, another one that would be interesting in the whole solving-problems thing, but then there's dealing with all the crap. Literally.
10. Cabinetmaker
Just another form of artist, only making stuff that has a useful function as well. Because I wouldn't be satisfied making dull, boring cabinets and would isntead be making reproduction Geore III furniture or something like that.
11. Composer
If I had any sort of musical background whatsoever besides one semester of piano in college to fill up a fine arts credit, sure!
12. Sign Maker
Er, well, if it's the sort of signs that
pzb does, possibly.13. Comedian
Yes, I find humor much easier to write than most people. No, I do not want to get on stage and deliver the material night after night. COME ON PEOPLE I TOLD THE QUIZ I HATED WORKING WITH PEOPLE AND THERE'S NOTHING MORE LIKE WORKING WITH PEOPLE THAN PLAYING TO AN AUDIENCE. I suppose I could write material for a comedian. I wouldn't mind doing that.
14. Musician
If I had the ability to actually practice, this would be OK. I enjoyed the moment when a disparate collection of notes somehow became a tune in my fingers and head when I took piano (and when I played the violin back in middle school).
15. Machinist
Um, I ahve no idea what a machinist does. Sounds a bit industrial for my tastes.
16. Tool and Die Maker
Ditto.
17. Industrial Designer
Ditto.
18. Technical Writer
I could do it, most likely. But I don't think I'd want to.
19. Fashion Designer
I am apparently the only person who sees this as the same thing as Costume Designer.
20. Model Maker
See "special effects technician" above.
21. Animator
I wanted to be an animator when I was a kid. Then I realized I didn't have the patience to do it, thanks to the ADHD. Now that there are many more computer tools to play with, I could probably make a better go at it now.
22. Desktop Publisher
Well, yeah. I could see this.
23. Multimedia Developer
A catchall for someone who does desktop publishing, web design, animation, etc., etc. etc., IMHO.
24. Computer Programmer
Yup.
25. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
Oh, really? Ya think?
26. Graphic Designer
Yup.
27. Artist
Never in a million years!
28. Computer Animator
See above, under "animator"
29. Writer
Well, if I got off my ass and actually wrote...
30. Critic
Well, except that I tend to get annoyed at people I crit who spaz back at me. :D
31. Business Systems Analyst
You may laugh, but this was one of the most interesting classes I took in my recent stint in graduate school. I like analyzing data to discern patterns and then trying to optimize those patterns (it's part of computer programming). It's just that whole WORKING WITH PEOPLE, especially people who don't want to change their ingrained work habits to my system, which is CLEARLY the right one.
32. Manufacturing Machine Operator
Sounds way too assembly-line for me.
33. Video Game Developer
I could do this. If only every other teen, twenty-, and thirty-something on the ENTIRE PLANET weren't trying to get into the field, also.
34. Website Designer
*ahem*
35. Medical Illustrator
My cousin did this, until he became a signmaker. It might be interesting.
36. Database Developer
*shifty look*
*hides databases*
37. Web Developer
*ahem*
38. Translator
As other people on my f-list have said, I'd love to do this, if it weren't for that whole "having to speak another language" thing.
39. GIS Specialist
I really have no clue what this is, despite accompanying my dad to a conference on global GIS in Nairobi back in 1991.
40. Print Journalist
Except for that whole "deadline" and "working with people" thing...
Plz to be noting that "librarian" didn't even make the cut, although I expect they assume being a librarian has to do with working with books. It actually has little to do with working with books and everything to do with organizing information, which tends to fit right in with computer programming and web design.
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