I'm barking up the wrong tree.
I've been doing this career assessment thing through the school's career center, CareerBeam... because I wouldn't mind holding down a paying job at some point in my adult life, so why not work on identifying areas of interest, proficiency and satisfaction. The findings:
Some suggestion for fields I'm apparently well suited for are, biomedical researcher, cardiologist, financial manager (!HA!), network integration specialist, news analyst, software developer and a few others like psychiatrist, politics, government and inventor. While they're purposefully ambiguous, I can see the relationship between them all, assessing big pictures, holistic systems, far-sightedness, I totally agree with all that, but the science part is funny. Almost everything else about the assessment I have found really helpful, sometimes validating, sometimes surprising, like, I've never tested out as an ENFJ before. And I apparently have a preference for big companies over small ones, for their structure and long term internal mobility.
Some of the secondary career suggestions it produced for me I can get on board with and am/have been interested in for a long time in some fashion, notably HR, corporate training, writing/editing/producing. I LOVE helping people get their shit together, it's my all time most favorite thing in the whole wide world. I need someone like me for myself. It seems my task is to figure out how to make my magical MFA work for me here, I already know exactly what and exactly where I'm perfectly tooled for, but that bubble was burst for me a couple of years ago which has left me a little lost and forlorn. sad trombone. The hard part is finding someplace like it, doing something similar. I'm going to be networking my tail off for the next year.
Some suggestion for fields I'm apparently well suited for are, biomedical researcher, cardiologist, financial manager (!HA!), network integration specialist, news analyst, software developer and a few others like psychiatrist, politics, government and inventor. While they're purposefully ambiguous, I can see the relationship between them all, assessing big pictures, holistic systems, far-sightedness, I totally agree with all that, but the science part is funny. Almost everything else about the assessment I have found really helpful, sometimes validating, sometimes surprising, like, I've never tested out as an ENFJ before. And I apparently have a preference for big companies over small ones, for their structure and long term internal mobility.
Some of the secondary career suggestions it produced for me I can get on board with and am/have been interested in for a long time in some fashion, notably HR, corporate training, writing/editing/producing. I LOVE helping people get their shit together, it's my all time most favorite thing in the whole wide world. I need someone like me for myself. It seems my task is to figure out how to make my magical MFA work for me here, I already know exactly what and exactly where I'm perfectly tooled for, but that bubble was burst for me a couple of years ago which has left me a little lost and forlorn. sad trombone. The hard part is finding someplace like it, doing something similar. I'm going to be networking my tail off for the next year.
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