Careers meme

[tamaranth]

By way of approx 50% of my f-list:
1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top umpty results:

1. Multimedia Developer (slightly, a bit)
2. Website Designer (ditto)
3. Desktop Publisher (what?)
4. Computer Programmer (done that, got the T-shirt)
5. Industrial Designer (cannot draw! but questions only asked what I liked, not what I was good at.)
6. Animator (as 5)
7. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator (as 5)
8. Interior Designer (as 5, though I did read that as Inferior Designer in which case yes)
9. Fashion Designer (as 5)
10. Costume Designer (as 5)

My current main role is #32.

Comments

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Drawing comes in two flavours: technical drawing or draughtsmanship, a skill of the hand and eye which can be taught and mastered by practice; and the art of drawing, the ability to bring character and life to images created on a page.

As a draughtsman's son and an engineer by training, I have one but not the other: that is to say, when I was in practice I could sketch your face but not you, drawing an outline that is recognisable in the same sense that your passport photograph is 'your picture', but not the image your friends have in mind when they think of you.

This mght be your limit, too: but the technical ability to draw is an acquired skill worth having for its own sake. As for artistic ability, that is only revealed when technique has been mastered: you are certainly capable of industrial design, and you might discover the talent for cartoons, comics and costume.

Or far, far more.

Animation is best left well alone: all but a tiny fraction of the work is a soul-destroying grind.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

1. Industrial Engineer (Hmm, never really considered this, but I can see I'd have enjoyed it)
2. Project Manager (What a surprise; what I've spent much of my career doing)
6. Electrical Engineer (My first degree does say I am one of these!)
8. Operations Research Analyst (A job I think I'd have enjoyed, especially the 'paid wargamer' variety)
9. Multimedia Developer (I'd like to try, not sure how good I'd be)
13. Astronomer (I really wanted to do this from about 5 to about 15)
16. Architect (I love architecture, not so sure how good an architect I'd be)
19. Aerospace Engineer (I sort of was one of these for many years)
28. Technical Writer (I've done this, it can be fun or soul-destroying)
29. Corporate / Commercial Lawyer (A bit worrying that the first mention of law comes at #29!)