Matchmaker

[pbray]

From all over the friends' list:

1. Go here: http://www.careercruising.com/default.asp
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top results.

Jobs I've held are in bold.

1. Criminologist (ironic considering the current project)
2. Political Aide
3. Critic
4. Writer
5. Public Policy Analyst
6. Translator
7. Market Research Analyst
8. Activist
9. Communications Specialist
10. Print Journalist
11. Lobbyist
12. Historian
13. Computer Trainer
14. Lawyer
15. Computer Programmer
16. Criminal Lawyer
17. Civil Litigator
18. Professor
19. Judge
20. Business Systems Analyst

Interesting number of results in the legal profession, which is a default career in my family. Not only is my brother an attorney, but three out of my nine cousins are also attorneys, and a fourth cousin who's a Jesuit studied law at Oxford.

Comments

[elizabeth-welsh.livejournal.com]

The problem with these quizes is there's no box to say "It depends..."

Exactly. I kept thinking the same thing. Also an "exception if" key would be nice. I like to work with people as long as their not disgruntled at something I have absolutely no control over. And I'm great with promotional stuff, but not direct sales, so I never know how to answer that one. I did promotions in radio and I always come up with marketing ideas on a whim that make people go "Wow, that's a cool idea!" It's the asking for the money part that I can't do.

[elizabeth-welsh.livejournal.com]

Make that their at they're. Gosh I really need to read more carefully BEFORE I hit the post button. My fingers don't seem to be attached to my brain sometimes.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Or there are things that I'm happy to do occasionally, but not for 8 straight hours a day, 5 days a week.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Exactly.
A person might enjoy working for the Census, for instance, but that's for a few weeks once every ten years. Doesn't mean they want to make a career of knocking on people's doors and asking them all kinds of questions. Or, for that matter, that they want to be a telemarketer.

Does anybody want to be a telemarketer? I had a client who was one for two weeks. I asked him why he left so quickly (I actually have to ask that question) and he said the job involved calling up older people and telling them their order was "ready to be shipped" and asking for their credit card information. Once he figured out (with help from one of the people he called who was sharper than the others) that none of them had ordered anything, he left that job.