What is a "career" really?
Happy Tuesday!! My Career Crisis Corner Continues! Let’s get existential!
I’ve always been fascinated by people who have any idea of what they want to do, of what they are good at. I don’t mean the people who have a career plan set out at age fifteen, that ability is fully wild and (anecdotally) never seems to stick for too long. I’ve just never…liked anything enough to want to do more with it? Or I’ve never been able able to figure out how to do more with it?
Remember those “Career Aptitude” tests you took in like, 9th grade? I found one online and took it. A caveat: I was given a selection of four images, and I had to “like” one and “dislike” the other. I started laughing the minute I was given a photo of a “manager,” which was just a man standing next to a desk where another person was
sitting. That said, here are my results.
Montessori School Teacher — LMAO What? Why so specific? Not a charter school? Not a public school? I’d be a terrible teacher of anyone school aged, teenagers scare me and small children are intolerably sticky. PASS
Presenter— …..of what? Is there field I don’t know about, that just allows you to present people with things at random times of day? Is this JUST for award shows? Honestly that seems really hard, I just watched the VMAs and though they only present like, four awards, the whole deal seems hard. The forced banter, the opening the envelope rigamarole, pronunciation errors, no thanks. PASS
Choreographer— I took a hip hop dance class at the age of 13, and my dance teacher would tell everyone to go right, while telling me to go left. I was like “Uh, won’t that be weird?” and she said “Oh no sweetie, it’s just you go in the opposite direction I tell you to, so if I tell you to go left you will go right.” PASS
News Anchor— Actual news reporting, no. Morning show talk host? Yes. ACCEPT
Lexicographer— Now this is interesting, because I do LOVE me a good word, and learning more of them. I am also a garbage speller, but maybe this would help that? On the other hand, don’t we have…most of the words sorted out now? Would it just be adding things like “garbage-time?” Also, I think I’d get bored?Lonely? Wouldn’t it be too quiet? Hmm. I think PASS
Book Editor— Yeah, I would love this. ACCEPT
Writer— The problem is, it is hard and requires a lot of self starting. I would be a great ghostwriter, actually! I’m a good voice mimic, and I remember reading the Gossip Girl series and getting INFURIATED that the ghost writers got some of the details wrong. CONDITIONAL ACCEPT
Drama Teacher— See back at the teacher thing, except this time with a bunch of theater kids? Ughhhh nope. PASS
Dancer— See point 3, Choreographer
Sociologist— Oh sociology! Bless, what a lovely field sociology, simply lovely. But I worked at a graduate school for five years and I am….not trying to get into academia. Ever. PASS
Performance Artist — I was going to leave this at ten jobs, but I saw that eleven was a performance artist and I couldn’t stop laughing. I am deeply allergic to performing and being embarrassed in public, this would be a disaster! PASS
Well look at that! One conditional accept, two accepts! Look out world!
XOXO
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