Personality and Career Tests

I took a personality test today and these were the results: 

Katie prefers to associate with others socially, organizationally, and recreationally. In addition to assuring company with others, association is an important arena and environment for interacting with people in a variety of ways: leadership, managing, supervising, communicating, serving, caring, etc. Other traits have to be considered to determine how and why Katie is motivated to associate and interact with others.

Katie prefers and needs change and variety. Change is motivating, stimulating, and energizing. Katie looks for new options, challenges, assignments, acquaintances, relationships, and even new careers in new places. Katie tires of sameness, repetition, and routine even in activities that were interesting at the start. Once things become routine for Katie, this becomes a motivation to move on to more interesting things.

Katie's preferences and motivations are derived from understanding the deeper or 'real' meaning of ideas and words and uses them effectively in written or oral communication. Literary in this factor means intentional search for ideas expressed by the minds of others for one's own use, assimilation, learning, etc. The source can be books, other publications, historical documents, research information, drama, movies, television, the "information highway" or internet, etc. Emphasis is on communication: picking up information from minds of others or communication aimed toward the minds of others. Journalism and writing are major activities. 

Literary activity is not exclusively intellectual, academic, or cultural. It may be an end in itself as in a bookworm for instance. And literary activity is not always accompanied by communicative activity, written or oral. On the other hand, communicative activity need not be literary in the classic sense. And one need not be persuasive to be communicative, but it helps. When the trait is highly motivated, as it is here, it suggests both literary and communicative abilities that are or could become a usable skill or a developed talent. By now you can see that only a review of all traits will clearly show the specific content of Katie's literary and/or communicative preferences and motivations.

Philosophical, literary, scientific, managerial and/or persuasive traits may be involved in Katie's motivation and drive to educate, train, or influence others. The main preference is to share knowledge and information that will be useful. So, conveying information to others assumes that educating self precedes educating others. Katie is motivated by learning, seeing the big picture, recognizing how pieces fit the picture, and prefers passing information on to others. Because so many traits might be involved in instructing activities, it is important to scan the other traits to see which traits are important.

Katie's motivations are not compatible with assembly line activity where one is locked into operational processes by station, function, and timing. Such activity would most likely be boring, tiring, frustrating, and stressful for Katie in a short time.  

Compiling means more than simply gathering large volumes of data sheets and stuffing them in a filing cabinet. It means that Katie is motivated to find, identify, classify, store, remember, and retrieve what is important or what might be important for future use. (NOTE: This is crucial for researchers, technical writers, lawyers, academic teachers, consultants, systems engineers, and programmers). This trait indicates a subconscious preference we could refer to as a "packrat" orientation, i.e., if it glitters; stuff it in the nest along with everything else because it might be useful sometime. Other traits will indicate how motivated the individual is to be thorough, practical, and efficient within this trait.

Katie is strongly motivated to apply thinking to the big picture through holistic ideas, concepts, options, and strategies. This does not mean, suggest, or imply that thinking is kept only in a holistic context but it does mean that the first and constant priority or preference for consideration and focus are on the big picture. (Example: Katie more likely prefers to be an executive rather than a manager, and more inclined to be a manager rather than a supervisor.) Considering how pieces of the picture are brought in to the big picture stimulates motivation for the activity.

Katie is motivated to describe, explain, teach, illustrate, and interpret. This is a journalistic trait dedicated to inform people. Social, leadership, influential, technical, service, and functional traits are involved as well. Therefore, it is necessary to review all worker traits to more closely identify Katie's preferences relative to this trait.

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I took another personality test that generated the top 40 careers I was best suited for. The first thing I did was eliminate all of the careers that I know I'm not interested in.  This left me with these options from the top 40 list:

3. ENGLISH EDUCATION

7. JOURNALISM

8. WRITERS AND EDITORS

10. LITERATURE - ENGLISH / AMERICAN

13. SOCIOLOGY - The study of human social behavior.

14. SOCIAL STUDIES / SOCIAL SCIENCES EDUCATION

18. LAW and pre-law

19. CREATIVE WRITING

20. VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

27. REPORTERS AND CORRESPONDENTS

I’m not quite sure what to make of all of this information. It’s nice to know the characteristics of my personality and the careers I’m potentially suited for… but I still don’t feel any closer to figuring out what I’m supposed to do with my life. I guess the only thing I can do now is meditate on this new information and see if I can reach some form of enlightenment.