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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #30 on: May 10, 2006, 05:09:43 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on May 10, 2006, 04:30:49 pm
  It must be nice to know at 15 what you want your career to be.  I surely didn't.  I think I'm getting pretty close to figuring it out now, if I can just make it pay...

Me too!  Some of us are just late bloomers.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #31 on: May 10, 2006, 05:19:49 pm »
Quote from: FlipConstantine on May 10, 2006, 04:47:22 pm
Man, that aptitude test gave me "Philologist".  If I have to look it up it's not a real job.

I got "Semiotician."  I wonder what that means.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #32 on: May 10, 2006, 05:29:02 pm »
Mine said I should be a scientist or a mechanic. I am a scientist (more or less), and I just changed my oil all by myself yesterday, so I think the test was right!
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #33 on: May 10, 2006, 09:06:50 pm »
Hobot-- we can do it together! we can be neighbors! Our spouses will go off to work, and our kids will play together while we drink gin and play bridge.

We have to shadow someone in a career we're interested in next week. I was just dying to ask if I could follow someone's "Homemaker" mother... but... I didn't have the balls.

So instead I'm doing community service. Which will be better, because, you know... i won't be doing it just to be wierd. also: helping people.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #34 on: May 10, 2006, 09:21:20 pm »
I think my number one from that test was 'optic lens engineer.'  Whenever it asked "do you like/are you good at math," I chose the maximum positive.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #35 on: May 10, 2006, 11:57:44 pm »
Lawyer was never very high on the list for me.  I think librarian was # 1 (which I considered for some time).  Clergy member was up there, too.  The fuck?
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #36 on: May 11, 2006, 03:06:01 am »
Quote from: Asherdan on May 10, 2006, 05:34:34 pm
AW, you just laid out the greatest hinch, making something you like or even love pay off enough to do for a living.

I thought I wanted to be a teacher until I found out from friends who were teaching what they faced, then I ran away. Prolly for the best. I really like most of what I'm doing currently and they just offered me to go from contract to perm, so I guess that's good enough.

As to high school testing, I remember taking the ASVAB (?IIRC?) aptitude tests for the military with my senior class jammed in the cafeteria. I guess I scored really well in the sections the USMC were interested in 'cause I had a standing phone call from a recruiter every week for like a year. He even found me when I moved. Persistent folks, they must've thought I'd make a good kill-bot.

Generally, athletes make decent military types. They're used to working as a group to achieve goals, and they're generally physically fit. Or maybe the recruiter was low on his quota or something.
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Re: Money's 50 Best Jobs!
« Reply #37 on: May 11, 2006, 04:21:29 am »
Quote from: Asherdan on May 11, 2006, 03:55:39 am
'Cause I'm an over-achiever who's also over-compliant to group norms.


Well, you do fit in well around here.  Never a bit of trouble out of you...
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