Who Am I, and What Should I Do?

I've been taking quizzes today. First I took a test on Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. The results were not surprising, except that I got a high score on Musical Intelligence, and I don't think of myself as particularly musically inclined. These are my results:

The Seven Intelligence Areas

Linguistic: 6
Logical-Mathematical: 1
Spatial: 3
Bodily-Kinesthetic: 2
Musical: 7
Interpersonal: 4
Intrapersonal: 9

A Short Definition of your Highest Score

Intrapersonal - the ability to assess one's own strengths, weaknesses, talents, and interests and use them to set goals, to understand oneself to be of service to others, to form and develop concepts and theories based on an examination of oneself, and to reflect on one's inner moods, intuitions, and temperament and to use them to create or express a personal view. Possible vocations that use the intrapersonal intelligence include planner, small business owner, psychologist, artist, religious leader, and writer.

I'm glad they included writer in my list of potential occupations! Psychologist and artist are pretty cool too! I'm a little surprised that I scored fairly low on Interpersonal, as I used to consider myself pretty good at reading other people and relating to them. I guess I'm out of practice!

Then I took a random career quiz I found in cyberspace. Apparently, the results group people by color according to what their work style and job preferences are. Here are my results from that one:


The Princeton Review Career Quiz

Your Interest color is: BLUE

People with blue Interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve creative, humanistic, thoughtful, and quiet types of activities. Blue Interests include abstracting, theorizing, designing, writing, reflecting, and originating, which often lead to work in editing, teaching, composing, inventing, mediating, clergy, and writing.

Your Usual Style is: BLUE

People with blue styles prefer to perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is supportive and helpful to others with a minimum of confrontation. They prefer to work where they have time to think things through before acting. People with blue style tend to be insightful, reflective, selectively sociable, creative, thoughtful, emotional, imaginative, and sensitive. Usually they thrive in a cutting edge, informally paced, future-oriented environment. You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results.

"Creative, humanistic, thoughtful, and quiet"... that sounds like the description of my perfect job! Interestingly, career suggestions like "clergy" have always come up in my career quizzes, from high school on! Maybe it's because I want to be nice and help people and establish world peace, etc! Ha ha ha! I really like the phrase "selectively sociable"... I think that is a very nice way of saying that I associate only with a select few people!

Anyway, so far "writer" is looking the most promising. I am 1/3 of the way done with my article to submit to the medical magazine... I hope I will get on and finish it! The hardest part is opening the Word document... if I can get myself to do that, I usually end up typing about a page before running out of steam (if I'm not interrupted). I have done really well with it on Saturday mornings of my free weekends, but don't want to wait another four weeks (two free weekends) before submitting it! I wrote to the magazine editor, giving him a one-paragraph overview of the story (about Scott and the surprising discovery of his false memories), and he wrote back asking me to send him a sample section of the story! That was very encouraging. Of course, it's been a couple of weeks already, so I feel the need to hurry up! I should have been writing right now, but instead I have been taking quizzes online about what to do with my life! Hmmm....

I also wanted to write in here about Scott's and my visit to the State Fair, plus our visit to Scott's mother on Sunday, but it's such a pain resizing photos to put them on here that I just can't be bothered!