Well as of late I have been feeling less than satisfied with some aspects of my life mainly my lack of focus on a serious career. Here's a bit of my history, Before the economy had this major decline nation wide I was in the Title Industry a.k.a Home Loan Closer smack dead in the middle of FL record breaking realestate boom working scattered hours that I hand picked equaled up to lots of free time and money. Since I was living at home fresh out of high school & without much responsibility, I invested allot of that free time/money into the "car scene" the rest went into my house, when I should have been focused on a career. At the time I was blind, young & didn't see the market failing, I was doing very well for myself considering my age as I am almost a homeowner at the age of 23. I have learned a great deal and really have found a passion that I can only hope to be lucky enough to turn into a career. More recently I have been in a field that I am less thrilled to be in. Working for a large A/C wholesale supplier I am making steady money with ok benefits but no real future in anything I am interested in. I am appreciative for having a job because allot of people currently are on the outs in a far worse situation, some of them being family members. I am currently getting my head out of my ass and going back to school. I really didn't know what I wanted to choose since so much has changed mainly my perspective on life and the importance for a career, I guess that’s what growing up is.
Anyway that being said I took a free online test I stumbled upon and it really seems to hit the nail on the head for me. I have now chosen a career path and hard at work to achieve my goal!!! Anyone in a similar situation should take it, its only 5min max. It didn't make my decision but helped confirm my choice. Hope this helps someone else!!!
Heres the link:
http://www.rocketcareer.com/
My results:
Analytical & Problem-Solving
You need a career with an element of mystery to feel genuine job satisfaction. Your work should be a puzzle that you figure out--whether you're looking for a cure for cancer, an optimal web site design, or the trail of an elusive criminal or historical fact. You never back down from a challenge, and you love the element of growth that learning involves. An ongoing element of newness is essential in your career, even if it's the new students in your classroom or the latest technological breakthrough in your field. Your have an open-minded curiosity characteristic of the talented researchers. As a result, you're well-placed in any career that takes advantage of your investigative instincts and your big-picture grasp of the world.
Innovative & Risk-Taking
"I wonder what would happen if..." is your mantra, and you need a career with an element of risk to get you out of bed in the morning. You're willing to experiment, to learn by acting and doing. Your continual questioning of the status quo reflects your need to find a better way to do what people do now or a new way to do what others don't even realize needs doing. Yours is an entrepreneurial, "start-up" personality. You like to test boundaries, and your innate confidence means you're well placed in careers where power is at issue--business, politics, sales. Since you're willing to take the risks that pay off in tangible rewards, you need a career where money--or its equivalent--is the measure of success.
Practical & Down to Earth
You need work you can touch to feel at home in what you do. Your greatest job satisfaction will come from a hands-on career, whether you deal with plants and animals or machines and tools. Patience, craftsmanship, and the need to see results incline you toward careers that yield tangible results. Ideally, your career will involve movement and physical exertion--whether you're crafting a pot, designing a landscape, or painting a house. If your job keeps you out of an office and in the outdoors, so much the better. At the end of your work day, you need to receive respect and a sense of your growing power to shape the world you live in with your own hands.
Detail Oriented & Methodical
You'll thrive in a career that lets you bring order out of chaos for yours is a talent for organization. With your eye for detail, your patient mastery of methods, and your poise and self-control, you're the original efficiency expert. In fact, your sense of detail is so keen that you never lose your edge or your concentration when doing repetitive work. As a result, you are most likely to find and correct the errors that everyone else misses. Since you appreciate the clarity of rule-based systems, the perfect work for you should involve high standards, clear, unequivocal guidelines, and explicit structures of authority. From forensic accounting to real estate inspection to the law, jobs that require professional licensing or standardized accreditation and that reward patience and perseverance fit you perfectly.
Creative & Free Form
You need an artistic or imaginative element in your work in order to find the career that fits. Your powers of visualization are strong, as is your ability to see patterns and trends long before others do. Though you can be impatient with restriction, you need to master the conventions of your art in order to find the structure that gives you true freedom of expression. Express yourself you must, and if you find a career that lets you set your own schedule, so much the better. Your productivity and your enthusiasm go hand in hand, so while others may be content to work for money alone, you won't find the right job till you're in a career that gives you joy.
Communicative & Empathetic
You need the human connection in your work to feel genuine satisfaction in your career. So, you're a natural for any of the "helping" professions. Whether in intimate one-on-one professions like counseling or nursing or in group-oriented service careers such as non-profit administration or community leadership, you'll be best place in a job that takes advantage of your innate communication skills. A career that puts you in a position to display your social skills is a necessity. You also require work that brings not just money but meaning into your life. Care, compassion, and the genuine willingness to serve incline you to positions of social responsibility. The career that fits is a career that lets you help others who depend on you.
Anyway that being said I took a free online test I stumbled upon and it really seems to hit the nail on the head for me. I have now chosen a career path and hard at work to achieve my goal!!! Anyone in a similar situation should take it, its only 5min max. It didn't make my decision but helped confirm my choice. Hope this helps someone else!!!
Heres the link:
http://www.rocketcareer.com/
My results:
Analytical & Problem-Solving
You need a career with an element of mystery to feel genuine job satisfaction. Your work should be a puzzle that you figure out--whether you're looking for a cure for cancer, an optimal web site design, or the trail of an elusive criminal or historical fact. You never back down from a challenge, and you love the element of growth that learning involves. An ongoing element of newness is essential in your career, even if it's the new students in your classroom or the latest technological breakthrough in your field. Your have an open-minded curiosity characteristic of the talented researchers. As a result, you're well-placed in any career that takes advantage of your investigative instincts and your big-picture grasp of the world.
Innovative & Risk-Taking
"I wonder what would happen if..." is your mantra, and you need a career with an element of risk to get you out of bed in the morning. You're willing to experiment, to learn by acting and doing. Your continual questioning of the status quo reflects your need to find a better way to do what people do now or a new way to do what others don't even realize needs doing. Yours is an entrepreneurial, "start-up" personality. You like to test boundaries, and your innate confidence means you're well placed in careers where power is at issue--business, politics, sales. Since you're willing to take the risks that pay off in tangible rewards, you need a career where money--or its equivalent--is the measure of success.
Practical & Down to Earth
You need work you can touch to feel at home in what you do. Your greatest job satisfaction will come from a hands-on career, whether you deal with plants and animals or machines and tools. Patience, craftsmanship, and the need to see results incline you toward careers that yield tangible results. Ideally, your career will involve movement and physical exertion--whether you're crafting a pot, designing a landscape, or painting a house. If your job keeps you out of an office and in the outdoors, so much the better. At the end of your work day, you need to receive respect and a sense of your growing power to shape the world you live in with your own hands.
Detail Oriented & Methodical
You'll thrive in a career that lets you bring order out of chaos for yours is a talent for organization. With your eye for detail, your patient mastery of methods, and your poise and self-control, you're the original efficiency expert. In fact, your sense of detail is so keen that you never lose your edge or your concentration when doing repetitive work. As a result, you are most likely to find and correct the errors that everyone else misses. Since you appreciate the clarity of rule-based systems, the perfect work for you should involve high standards, clear, unequivocal guidelines, and explicit structures of authority. From forensic accounting to real estate inspection to the law, jobs that require professional licensing or standardized accreditation and that reward patience and perseverance fit you perfectly.
Creative & Free Form
You need an artistic or imaginative element in your work in order to find the career that fits. Your powers of visualization are strong, as is your ability to see patterns and trends long before others do. Though you can be impatient with restriction, you need to master the conventions of your art in order to find the structure that gives you true freedom of expression. Express yourself you must, and if you find a career that lets you set your own schedule, so much the better. Your productivity and your enthusiasm go hand in hand, so while others may be content to work for money alone, you won't find the right job till you're in a career that gives you joy.
Communicative & Empathetic
You need the human connection in your work to feel genuine satisfaction in your career. So, you're a natural for any of the "helping" professions. Whether in intimate one-on-one professions like counseling or nursing or in group-oriented service careers such as non-profit administration or community leadership, you'll be best place in a job that takes advantage of your innate communication skills. A career that puts you in a position to display your social skills is a necessity. You also require work that brings not just money but meaning into your life. Care, compassion, and the genuine willingness to serve incline you to positions of social responsibility. The career that fits is a career that lets you help others who depend on you.