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Adventures in Career Guidance part 2

The first meeting was very pleasant. My new career cousellor Emma and I both sat down with our steaming cups of tassimo green tea and chatted about why I was there, my likes and dislikes, and what I hoped to accomplish over the month. She was very engaging and understanding which helped me to open up to her. Over the course of a few days I found two tests in my inbox which was my homework for the week. I opened them up and completed them pretty much right away wondering what they were going to get out of my choosing between being a firefighter or a mathmatician and so on, but it was actually pretty impressive.

According to their list of 5 themes (artistic, social, realistic. enterprising, conventional and investigative), I am mostly astristic, social and conventional. The funny thing about having this theme code (ASC) is that A and C actually almost contradict each other...its kind of like saying I am a free spirited, creative type who enjoys structure and organization? Well the funny thing is that it's true. I could never be an artist in the career sense because the lack of stability and security would be difficult for me in the long run. That doesn't change the fact that I am an artist by nature and therefore need outlets in which to express myself at work.

According to those finding my top five interest areas were:

1. Writing & mass communication
2. Religion & Spirituality
3. Performing arts
4. Visual arts & design
5. Research

None of these fall within the conventional themes choice careers, so it helped me to figure out that my need for convention is more limited to my need for job security and a regular paycheck.

From there the report shows me my top ten strong occupations which are determined by comparing my results with the results of thousands of women currently happily employed in a list of 122 occupations.

1. Foreign Language Teacher
2. ESL Instructor
3. Minister
4. Social Science Teacher
5. Broadcast Journalist
6. English Teacher
7. Librarian
8. Social Worker
9. Technical Writer
10. Editor

I was a little surprised by the first two...but this isn't necessarily an indication of ability...more of similar interests. There definitely seems to be a theme to this list, so that helps.

Apparently the careers that they do not recommend based on my results are:

1. Physicist
2. Athletic Trainer
3. Mathematician
4. Investment Manager
5. Automobile Mechanic

I agree 100%

So from here I need to do some investigating and then the next time I get together with Emma we're going to look at the results of my personality test, how those results affect my career search, and start narrowing down my options.

Comments

  1. MichelleApril 10, 2010 at 4:17 PM

    I'm excited about the self-discovery that this journey is giving you!

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  2. ~mApril 14, 2010 at 11:27 PM

    this *is* really exciting! it sounds like you're developing a rapport with emma, too :)

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