Taken from Teqkiller's journal

[dotinthesky]

Some of these professions come close to what I want to do, or what I've been involved in so far in my life:

- dietitian/nutritionist (but in an Admin role)
- clergy (I was someone's guru for a while...)
- journalist (I interviewed Morcheeba)
- career counselor (I've told my friends what to do with their lives with great accuracy)
- character actor (I was a drama student when I was 13, and I won a best actor award!)
- musician/composer (I create the best dance moves for Anastacia you will evah see in your life. I also give good names to bands.)
- artist (just take a random quote by Oscar Wilde and apply it to me)
- information-graphics designer (developed webpages for some department or other)
- editor/art director (I've dabbled)
- massage therapist (I give good massages)

Extroverted (E) 58.06% Introverted (I) 41.94% Imaginative (N) 62.86% Realistic (S) 37.14% Emotional (F) 67.65% Intellectual (T) 32.35% Easygoing (P) 50% Organized (J) 50% Your type is: ENFP

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Some of these professions come close to what I want to do, or what I've been involved in so far in my life:

- dietitian/nutritionist (but in an Admin role)
- clergy (I was someone's guru for a while...)
- journalist (I interviewed Morcheeba)
- career counselor (I've told my friends what to do with their lives with great accuracy)
- character actor (I was a drama student when I was 13, and I won a best actor award!)
- musician/composer (I create the best dance moves for Anastacia you will evah see in your life. I also give good names to bands.)
- artist (just take a random quote by Oscar Wilde and apply it to me)
- information-graphics designer (developed webpages for some department or other)
- editor/art director (I've dabbled)
- massage therapist (I give good massages)

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Right now, the situation is bleak. I've been unable to get my ass into gear and find a proper job. Those alcyon days, when I felt happy for quitting my old dull job in the Nutrition Department, are long gone.

Comments

[sparklielizard.livejournal.com]

Heh - I got the same as you ;-)

[4q.livejournal.com]

Ollie! what is preventing you from looking for a job properly? Is it because you want to leave?

[kurwa.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! I totally took that at school one day when we had a guest speaker come in. And it was accurate as hell. I forgot what I got though.

[dawnage.livejournal.com]

Oh I *love* the icon!

[peraventure.livejournal.com]

bah! massage therapist means you've matriculated from a state sponsored school and performed enough hours of work - it's 1000 hours for NY state.

You can say you do massage or bodywork. But until then, not therapy. *grins* I love sayin' that shit. It's like Aveda graduates saying, "You polish nails, you paint a house!!"

and I swear I saw the word "brainwasher" in there at first glance. heh...

[lala-jones.livejournal.com]

oh man, i've taken that thing more times than i care to admit. that theory relies on the premise that there is some underlying "essence" of you - stop the presses - i just heard a terrified scream - looked out the window, can't see anything - it's quarter to three, broad daylight, impossible to tell where the sound is coming from, between the lake and the buidings... there it is, it's frigging TEENAGERS. there's more than one now, howling together. what the fuck? i hate teenagers. i hated them when i was a teenager. (ok, i don't hate all of them, just the stupid ones that hang out in packs. i think we should get them to work - put all that hormonal energy to good use. maybe we can go some way to saving them from confusion and apathy, while we're at it.)

ok, back to business. dude, at 16 i tested as an INTP, at 20, INFP, two years ago, as ENFP, now as ENTP, and once, as INFJ. like i was saying, that test ignores the contextuality and plasticity of the individual in the social world... i can see the attraction to it, i mean i looked to it so many times myself, just as i've looked to astrology (about which i've erroneously chosen to disregard metaphysical/logical analysis, preferring to just say, fuck it, it explains things and works pragmatically... then again, all the Really Important questions are beyond metaphysical reconciliation - free will, consciousness, etc. - they force us to take the pragmatic position, if we want to acknowledge what we feel as real (consciousness and volition)... ok, forget all that. irrelevant, inappropriate here. forgive jittery coffee brain.

what i think i was trying to get at was this:

1) insofar as you've been given the opportunity to try things (you haven't really had the chance to be a head of state yet, as far as i know), you already know, more or less, what you're good at and what you like. Motivation and aptitude tend to go hand in hand (barring things like mood disorders and socio-economic barriers).

2) what you don't know is how to fit that into the existing and projected economic regimes.

you could take the external market as a cue - nutritionists may or may not be in high demand. but what you must ask yourself is: are you willing to become obsessed (or act that way, as you'll have to for school, "networking", job search, etc.) with nutrition for the next xxxx years of your life?

what are you willing to become obsessed with? (morrissey doesn't count. Scratch that, he can - pop/culture journalism is there, and really, that's what you are, kind of, already.)

3) as you mentioned, you need to kick yourself in the ass and become an entrepreneur. all of us do, unless we're content to passively accept the world as it's given to us, the jobs as they're handed to us by people who took college courses in Human Resources. it's an unfortunate reality of our time. BUT, i think, i mean i can see in people around me (my brother, the immigrants i've met recently, and some of my friends here), that this is also a truth:

- once you accept a role, an identity, a purpose, whether it's a result of a "compromise" or a focussed passion, that kind of entrepreneurship/obsession fuels itself. one project leads to another, one success gives you the boost to try again. you start immersing yourself in that world, you meet people, you make connections, you do work; it starts slow, but it really does take on a momentum outside of yourself. other people start inviting you to parties, they think of you for jobs, they recommend you to others... once you've decided what you are going to do, the rest kind of takes care of itself.

and it will, for you, because you're talented at the things you've tried so far, you pick things up quickly, you're good with people, you're not pushy...

i think one of the posters above (i forget who, can't see that screen from here) got it right on the money: think/act through whatever blocks you have, and settle on something. it's all gravy, after that. sorry this is so long.

pots and kettles

[lala-jones.livejournal.com]

yeah, i know, i'm not walking the talk. i give crude advice and i'm arrogant about it. and it's SO easy to just gloss over difficult and often loooong processes, as i did in my post above - yeah, just decide something, ollie. sorry about that. as you know i'm still figuring things out myself. but i've seen that whole momentum thing happen in other people's lives, absolutely... and i know that i'm a whole lot closer to where i want to be than i was last year, even, and i also know how much has gone into it - endless conversations with good friends, acquaintances; tons of research and letter writing; a lot of hard thinking (at night, in the morning, in the middle of some crappy job i hated doing) that sometimes led to uncomfortable conclusions; and i know that's exactly what you're doing, too, in your own way.

sorry for being a big-mouth.