3:00 snapshot #330, plus personality memes

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I took this personality test that's going around, that seems pretty darn accurate. It said I was a 'Spontaneous Idealist.' First I thought that sounded a little too positive, like a Chinese restaurant placemat horoscope, but then I realized that it only seemed positive because I like the thought of being a spontaneous idealist--someone else would hate being called that. Alexis is an 'Individualistic Doer.' There's a compatibility comparison button on the site that eerily predicted our relationship conflicts, particularly my apparently insane and irrational need to know where we're going to move some day.


Then there's a complementary site where you can pretty simply translate the jargon from the last personality test to a new one. In this one, I'm an ENFP type, which stands for Extravert Intuitive Feeling Perceiving. Okay, whatever. This is all done to facilitate career counseling. It correctly predicted that I'm good at starting projects but crap at finishing them, that I have had numerous career changes, and that I have a desperate need to be liked. But they then list the recommended career choices for my personality type. Ready?

Advertising Creative Director
Advertising Sales Executive
Artist*
Career Counselor
Cartoonist
Character Actor*
Chemical Engineer
Chemist
City Manager
Clergy
Columnist
Comp. Systems Analyst
Computer Support Rep.
Conference Planner
Consultant
Copywriter
Corrections Officer
Development Trainer
Editor
Employee Assistant Specialist
Engineer
English Teacher*
Entrepreneur
Facilitator
Housing Director
Insurance Agent
Interior Decorator
Inventor
Journalist
Lawyer
Librarian
Marketing Consultant
Medical Assistant
Musician/Composer*
Newscaster
Occupational Therapist
Ombudsman
Pastoral Counselor
Preschool Teacher
Psychodrama Therapist
Psychologist
Public Relations Specialist
Publicist
Rehabilitation Worker
Reporter
Sales: Intangibles/Ideas/Services
Screen/Play Write*
Social Scientist
Social Worker
Speech Pathologist
Speech Pathologist
Strategic Planner/Researcher
Teacher: Liberal Arts
Teacher: Special Education
Travel Agent

So, the bolded ones are actual stops on my career, almost entirely short-lived and disastrous, or practically imaginary (I swear I've got a couple good screenplays in me). The starred ones are dreams that I haven't totally given up on, but will probably have to wait until I retire from trying to make a living, except for English teacher, which I just thought of as a career choice ,like, last week. Of these, I probably still only have a legitimate claim on 'columnist,' although aren't we all (us bloggers) columnists these days?

How 'prison guard' got in there is baffling to me, and don't even ask me what a 'psychodrama therapist' is; I don't think I want to know.