Ryan                                 

              Careers are very important, because more than likely it’s what you’ll more then likely be doing your whole life. If you are in the wrong career, a chain reaction will happen. You won’t like the career; if you don’t like the career you won’t do a good job and get fired. If you’re having a hard time finding the right career, use the internet to find out what career suits you personality. As such, if you don’t understand yourself you can’t find out what career you’d be good at. So understanding your personality is just as important as choosing the right career.

  Recently I took the “pathway to the world of careers” to see what job might be best suited for me. It is a personality test that helps select career fields I would be best for. I check specific boxes that apply to me. Each box is in a column labeled A-H and depending on how I answer, I’m put in one of eight fields.

            Some of the fields are fun like arts, media, and entertainment. Others are a lot more common like business, industrial and technology. Then there are those that revolve around helping people like health and public and human services. There are also those that are a bit different then most like agriculture, home economics, and engineering technology.

            I scored high in engineering technology. One of the questions that lead to this was, “I can solve questions by thinking and studying the details.” Another one was, “I enjoy mental challenges like puzzles or riddles.” No matter how you cut it, it tells you what field you’d be good in.

Before that I took another personality test on similarminds.com.  The results present what kind of personality I have and how people perceive me. Simularminds.com described me as a loner more interested in intellectual pursuits than relationships or family.  Someone who wrestles with the meaningless of existence, likes esoteric things, disorganized, messy, likes science fiction, lonely, observer, private, can’t describe feelings easily, detached, likes solitude, not revealing, unemotional, rule breaker, avoidant, familiar with darkside, skeptical, acts without consulting others, does not think they’re weird but others do, socially uncomfortable, abrupt, fantasy prone, does not like happy people, appreciates strangeness, frequently loses things, acts without planning, guarded, not punctual, not prone to compromise, hard to persuade, relies on mind more.

I feel describes me well with most things.  As for careers, simularminds.com said my favored careers are philosopher, game designer, scientist, software engineer, freelance artist, research scientist, assassin, freelance writer, physicist, software developer, mathematician, geologist, computer scientist, philosophy professor, webmaster, slacker, medical researcher, painter, mortician, system analyst, comic book artist, computer repair, forensic anthropologist, astronaut, researcher, historian, system engineer, genetics researcher, astronomer, environmental scientist and Egyptologist. All of these careers, especially game designer and philosopher, I’d most likely love all of them.

It also tells you what jobs you aren’t suited for. For me they’re human resources, public relations, social workers, guidance counselor, health care worker, trainer, school teacher, wedding planner, movie star, hospitality worker, supervisor, child care worker, fundraiser, customer service, stay at home parent and office administer. Most of these jobs I’d more then likely despise most of those jobs.

Overall, I feel describes me just about to the letter. I always enjoy being alone and am very philosophical. Also, I’m always thinking about the meaning and point of existence. I love video games, (I don’t have a problem!J) so game designer is my dream job. I’m always fantasy prone and attracted to strange things.

With all of these things in mind I’ve determined three jobs that I’d love. I’d really enjoy being a forensic anthropologist or a criminologist, because as long as I can remember I’ve had a true passion for the law and what drives criminals. Also, I’d probably be a great philosopher. I’m very deep when it comes to things like that. Most of all, the job I think would be best for me, is video game designer. I truly and purely love video games, and can not think of any better job then making them.

 I also took a personality test on kerisy.com.  It said I was an architect in the rationalist category. Primarily, it said I brag about my achievements, but I’m a loner. It described an architect with a quote from the fountainhead. This is that quote:

“He was looking at the granite. He did not laugh as his eyes stopped in awareness of the earth around him. His face was like a law of nature-a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high cheekbones over gaunt, hollow cheeks; gray eyes, cold and steady; a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the mouth of an executioner or a saint. He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are here for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn, waiting for the shape my hands will give to them.”

 I found this very deep and insightful. I am undoubtedly an architect though and though.