This means you like work where your main focus is on dealing with problems that you need to think about and find solutions for. You might enjoy being a computer programmer or a mathematician.
It took me a long time to realize that art and engineering are not as divergent as mainstream culture would have you believe, particularly when you get into the research side. Every interesting field gets a bit weird as you get into it.
;)
Distinct from many (most?) readers on HN.
or when given this one:
>A sick person has some difficulty walking and needs to go up a flight of stairs. You help them do so.
"I think that would make me feel good to help someone, so I'll choose like. Although is that what I would want to do for a job? If so then I would definitely dislike that job. I guess I would maybe like to help someone up the stairs."
Gahh!
But save enough of your income to interest your economist side.
One morning, you will wake up and realize you made over 50% of your income before you tumbled out of bed!
Carried to an (eminently achievable) extreme, this is called "fuck-you money". Some achieve it suddenly, but many gradually.
Essentially you rank your skills based around enjoyment and experience and it tells you what types of roles might be of interest to you.
Still, I definitely identify with being a programmer who creates stuff that helps people!.
Fairly correct.
"This means you like hands-on work that is focused on dealing with other people and helping them out. On the job, you probably want to combine being social with being productive."
I could agree with this. I really enjoy helping new people out with programming problems in the office.
"You might like being a occupational therapist or an athletic trainer."
This doesn't feel right :(
Not really into the medical profession at all. Been a webdev since the late 90's. Learned and re-learned several times over. Never really shined, just got shit done. Lost the love many years ago but still love the tech and problem solving. Been looking for some kind of horizontal career move but am currently stumped.
I am not the kind of person that wants a start up but I think it would be great to help someone achieve something important and amazing (i.e. working for Elon Musk is way more attractive to me than being Elon Musk). I'd take a pay cut for that feeling again. To have the sense that my work has meaning.
Got business thinker when I've been mostly a software engineer. What's interesting is that on the suggestions list they have technical and/or likely software centered careers like physicist, VC, quants, and actuary but nobody actually writing software or systems as their primary job. Not a single software developer type career listed but industrial engineer and geneticist are higher recommendations with economist at the top? I dunno if the results are telling me that I probably wouldn't enjoy writing code primarily or if this type of thinker shouldn't be writing code.
But really, none of this means you'd be any good at it. Maybe there needs to be more of an assessment of different skills instead of the usual self reporting to contrast with these types of tests.
Our in-depth psychological assessment shows that you
might like a career as a cheese taster, scuba diver
or professional TV show watcher.
I could be a user experience designer or an online reputation manager [watch it!], but that sounds far more like a supplier than a job description.
I suppose I could be an epidemiologist. But I'm lazy, so that would only work for really interesting diseases. Gotta stay motivated, don't you know!
I could be an animal scientist or trainer. Maybe that would work if I could be as sensitive as another recently posted author (octopuses). But I seriously doubt it, I being a slacker!
I could be a cartoonist, except I can't draw worth shit. I could be a lyricist or a poet or writer. But that takes talent. Which I don't have.
I could be stonemason or a plasterer or a stucco mason. But, did I mention, I'm a slacker!
Baker. Getting warm. Bread being baked does smell nice. Yeah, that's promising. Except I'm too rich.
Nicely done! :-)
This means you like interacting with other people, especially when it is in a professional work setting like in a company.
Been a coder, and now run a startup and look to have a BizDev guy join me so that I can focus more on the startup.
and yes I do like Biz interactions and talking to folks and poring over data bore me while I like to solve problems.
That said, I'll bit, I'd love to know about more of the inner workings of the match. How many possible outcomes are there? How does the scoring working, are they questions weighted evenly? Are the jobs preset for a specific match, or are they dynamically selected based on the questions? How were the jobs profiled to meet the aforementioned criteria? What is psychological basis for the questions and their formations... give me the dets yo.
This means you enjoy dealing with other people while also being able to work hard and get things done. A good career fit likely means a good amount of social interaction that has a goal and purpose, like being a nurse or a genetic counselor.
Psychiatrists Healthcare Social Workers Registered Nurses Recreational Therapists Audiologists"
Fairly accurate. I've been a coder and entrepreneur. I love solving problems and building stuff.
You might enjoy being a computer programmer or a mathematician. :D :)