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Career

Hey Yingying, you can try these links, some are quite fun! hahah

http://www.careerpath.com/career-tests/career-quiz/Results.aspx?red=011011000111001101100000

Interpreting Your Results

Your Career Planner Quiz results appear below, grouped under "Interests" and "Style." "Interests" are activities you enjoy, regardless of your skills. "Style" refers to the behaviors you use to get results. There are four possible rating categories organized by color.

RED = Expediting	BLUE = Planning
GREEN = Communicating	YELLOW = Administrating

Your Quiz Results

People with Blue interests like activities that allow them to be creative. This can be through more traditional visual arts, writing or musical pursuits although not limited to these. The creativity is often expressed in thinking of new ideas or strategies that can have a broad range of applications. Blue interests often like thinking about the future and planning for long term benefits. Hobbies include: performing or listening to music, attending theater, story telling, journaling, decorative arts, painting. Career choice often are: Editor, Journalist, Teacher, Strategic Planner, Consultant, Performing Arts, Marketing, Communications, Research and Development.

People with Yellow strengths are good at managing details and creating sophisticated processes that allow them to get complex work done. Once a game plan has been put in place, it is implemented. Their decisions are based on facts and carefully reasoned. When working with other people, they are fair and democratic and always can be counted on to deliver what they commit to.




http://blogs.payscale.com/content/2007/02/overcome_your_c.html

Overcome Your Career Change Fear: 5 Expert Tips

If you're ready for a career change but haven't yet figured out how to get there, follow these tips from Harvard's Dr. Timothy Butler and life coach C.J. Liu. Before you know it, you'll be on your way to a new career.

1. Look at the issues that make you crave change and outline your goals.
What are you satisfied with about your current situation? What are you dissatisfied with? Is it your boss or the culture of your organization? Or do you really want to change careers? Outline your goals - for example, more money, more time off or more flexibility. Write it all down.

2. Work to understand your inner critic
Observe thoughts that trap you with fear and prevent you from achieving your objectives. Write these down on a piece of paper, then crumple it up and throw it away to symbolize your freedom from thoughts that interfere with your goals and dreams.

3. Recognize recurring patterns in your life
What makes you happy? What are your recurring interests and social needs? What makes a work environment feel or not so good to you? Write it down.

4. Network and investigate career interests that map to your goals and needs
Once you've identified your patterns and desires, start thinking about careers that make sense for you. Give yourself one to three months to explore your curiosity by finding people who do these jobs and talking about the pros and cons of their work. Explore anything and everything until you're satisfied - or until your time runs out.

5. Make a plan that takes your financial situation into account.
Change is never simple, but having a plan that outlines your steps and financial requirements makes it doable. Will your new career require additional education, a small business loan, time off from work or relocation? Make a plan with financial considerations and a realistic timeline and that you can follow through on.


This one isn't very accurate, but I like the way they categorize the tests, helps you describe yourself better.
http://www.ipersonic.com/career/?gclid=CKWDkt7nlKgCFcN56wodNTxTNA


other links:

http://www.suite101.com/content/how-to-choose-a-career-path-a64147


http://www.job-interview-site.com/how-to-decide-on-a-career-how-to-choose-a-career-path.html

nozzle alignment check

Its 5.36am and I am studying hard (debatable) as usual. Have a final class test tmr and I'm so prepared I don't think I'd get zero.

This is like the emo time zone or something hahaha its always between 4-6 that my cognitive faculty swings into overdrive. Its like how some printers do routine nozzle cleaning and alignment checks, or how some computers auto-defrag at 2am every morning.

Some things have been bothering me for some time, that I've been trying to address, to zero success.

I wish I could possess true humility, not just outwardly but innately as a spirit. Its not natural to me, though I really want it to be. There are always these thoughts which pop up that I have to consciously struggle against to suppress every time, before they materialize as actions or words (and often I fail). I guess at the end of the day, I'm just not as amiable and transparent a person as I hoped to be.

Feels like there are so many things that I try to hide, this feeling it's one of insecurity. How come? Don't know leh. I conceal my weaknesses, to keep my image and pride, and maybe this is why I find it so hard to open up to people. One day there will be someone who will peel off these defenses and understand me inside out. I just hope she won't be disappointed with what she discovers, which would be the real deal - it definitely doesn't live up to the packaging.

I dislike the way I think. The way I perceive the things around me, its stained with a lot of negativity, still. I dislike that I think, why think so much, just live and be content as it is. Its not like I make very good decisions anyway. Why bother keeping up a prim and proper image, or why bother about it at all. The gravity of my somberness weighs me down that I cannot run and jump with retarded joy.

I wish I could be a clique person, I dislike cliques because I can't fit in them, and I kinda know the reason why, its cumulative of some of the fore-mentioned factors.

I want to be a courtyard extrovert, and not a closet introvert.

I wish I could be more easily contented with things, and not always hope that I could be doing better elsewhere in other contexts, or that things could be better, just like what I'm doing now. I wish I wouldn't worry so much and I wish I could accept things as they are. Its a mindset problem, I need a new frame that faces nicer perspectives.

I read somewhere that happiness is not a destination, if it were to be conditional, then I'd never be happy. It's an emotion, and being an emotion, it comes and it goes, it doesn't persist, and you can't fix it up as a goal either. Just be happy when you're happy, and that's happiness. I need to internalize that.

I'm one big complex, one big walking contradiction, and I hope people can see that. I wish that they would dig deep enough to discover that, past my stubborn resistance. Beyond that I wish they'd empathize and if possible help me.

It's draining to continually suppress. I desire to express and be understood, but I am my hurdle. I want to be honest, not just in blog posts.

It's not that I'm just complaining and not trying, but these problems are kinda beyond me really, so all I can do is pray about it.

Oh well.

K back to work.


P.S I not emo-ing, this called reflection (:

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Creative thought process (reductive)