Before I began this assessment, I was told to think of some future career positions that I want to attain. I, as a person interested in all sorts of arenas, wrote down every single job I would like to try: lawyer, dentist, psychologist, professor, President, United Nations Secretary-General, CEO, or writer. I saw my potentials in these careers through the suggestions made by the learning style and personality test results. Expecting three or four of these positions to come out as my possible career, I merrily dived into the self-directed search survey - and the results were shocking.
The only job that I was interested out of the over-twenty results was 'psychologist'. The other jobs included chief of sanitary water systems, lab conductor, lab supervisor, geologist, and playwright. Geologist? Playwright? Alas, neither my talents nor my interests were not related to any of the listed job choices. Also, I was very disappointed to find not a single job related to politics, because I was quite talented in verbal skills and research and thus wanted to get jobs such as President or lawyer. I was appalled at the highly-incorrect results. As I carefully thought about what might have been the possible cause for this wrong interpretation, I realized that I had made the gap too big for the search tool. Before I began, I should have known what specific area I am specially talented in or interested in, such as science, engineering, or arts. However, I did not narrow down the area and went on to tick every box of various areas that I favored. The area with the most "likes" was science, and the second was arts. Even though they can be linked in some ways, it is rare to find "my-style jobs" (famous, high salary, and interesting) with a correlation between the science and arts. Therefore, the results did not contain many choices that I was expecting as ideal outcomes.
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