Funeral Director?
Towards the end of my sophomore year of college with still an Undecided classification for a major, I took the Myers-Briggs personality inventory and the Strong career indicator. Of course, it told me the obvious--I'm a extrovertive, creative, artistic mind that would do best in jobs not related to anything mathematics or accounting and suggested I would make a good funeral director. Today, I randomly wondered if I took those tests again after 5 years experience in the "real world" if the results would be the same. I googled Myers-Briggs and took their online questions and I'm still an ESFP--extroverted, sensing, feeling, perceiving. I tried to take the online Strong, but at $80 just for the hell of it, no thanks. So, while I'm not at all surprised I'm an ESFP, I now wonder if I would still make a good funeral director like the test told me in 1996. In many ways it seems our generation has it a whole lot harder than previous generations with 80,000 occupations from which to choose. My parents went to college where the majors were education, nursing, and engineering. I went to college and took courses like mate selection, food and nutrition, organic gardening, and relationship competence. No wonder it takes more than 4 years to obtain a bachelors degree! And granted I have a very comfortable and accomodating cushy job right now that pays decent, funny how disability examiner never made it on the Top 5 what-do-you-want-to-be lists!
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When I was in school, I could have majored in "electives" as it always seemed like there were lots of interesting ones that were far more fascinating in ways that the core classes I took toward my major...not that I didn't like my major of journalism mind you...but it was just cool to sit around and gab about movies in cinema studies and get credit for it...
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