My test results suggested a career in farming and agriculture was best for me. (Oddly, so did my Dad's tests in the 1950's. And he's a lawyer now).
In October I put a resume up on a medical site, looking for research work in addition to my regular practice.
Today I got an email from the site's "job assistant", saying that I'm qualified for an exciting career as a Certified Nursing Assistant, and should register for classes NOW.
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There you go, you followed your yak herding dream!
At least you know you can have a back up plan in case Yak-herding doesn't work out for you!!
I have a TRS-80 Model 100 (laptop) clone, the NEC PC-8201. I haven't turned it on in years, but I've got it in event of zombie invasion.
Those career guidance tests always suggested I become a teacher. I wonder now what they suggested to my sister, since she turned out to be the teacher.
All the career counseling tests I got forced to take in middle school/early high school said I should be a forester or park ranger. I'm finishing pharmacy school now so I guess the tests were wrong, though I make furniture for a hobby, wonder if that comes closest to a park ranger. My uncle, a retired opthamologist, got the same responses from the tests when he was in high school.
By the way, what's the going price for a yak lately?
My career counselor in college used a similar test. It listed garbage collector as the number one job for me. MD didn't make my list.
I still sometimes wonder if I might have been happier if I worked in sanitation. Perhaps emptying those dumpsers is the key to inner peace.
...either that or Yak herding.
Hope you like dipping urines for blood and changing depends!
Yes I would say you are slightly qualified as a CNA.
Have fun with that!
All of those types of tests that I did indicated that I had great people skills and would excel in a sales career. I hate the idea of selling stuff to people who either don't need it or can't afford it. I also would very much prefer NOT to interact with dozens of people on a daily basis. Ergh! Guess who is now a checkout operator...
Mine said I should become a Neurologist, Forensic Pathologist, or Psychiatrist....=l I think I am doing Psych
I must have input my telephone number on a site that sells contact information to telemarketers because I got a phone call the other day and the person asked me if I would be interested in their online school so that I could get my GED. I replied that I held already had a doctorate and felt that my academic tenure was complete.
Well...you know...it's always something to fall back on :D
Personally, I think you would make a wonderful Diet Coke spokesman.
When I took those tests in high school, I was supposed to go into the CLERGY.
Imagine that. What do they do with atheists in the clergy, anyway?
The counselor really didn't understand why I laughed so hard.
Good luck on the CNA training. I hear it's really tough.
yea, we had the trs-80, but only after we upgraded from a Timex-Sinclair with 8k. couldn't save to it, though. had to save to a TAPE RECORDER. yep, that's right.
i love how people treat other docs/ers/RNs when their usual provider is 'out' or unavailable.
wtf?
Mother-
The exact same thing happened to me. As an atheist I was best suited for the clergy! Most entertaining. I ended up with a psych degree and was a social worker. Now going back to nursing school.
Maybe during my next mid-life crisis I will find god and finally fulfill my true destiny. Could happen.
Hey people- don't be dogging CNA's.
We can't all be doctors and someone has to wipe butts and feed patients. A truly good CNA is worth his/her weight in gold.
What if it was your mom in that bed?
Cheryl- I'm not dogging CNA's. It was more the humor of an MD being told he should become a CNA by some brainless computer program.
I really had no aptitude for pharmacy (or anything else that required knowing about numbers) according to the interests testing scores instead I should've gone into domestics arts education, or written suspense novels. (I deliberately NEVER took typing in high school because I was afraid that the civil service exam I aced was going to open the door to an exciting career in the typist pool, not that I wouldn't mind a rather predictable day now and then with a lunch-hour and two fifteen minute breaks to don tennies and put in some aerobic exercise on the grounds outside the place of work.)
I just consider my 21 year career in pharmacy, an exercise in working out of the 'box'.
If I remember correctly, it told me I should be a baker or a prosthetist.
(!??!!)
Weird!
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