Meme, meme, meme-ity meme, I'm so stuffy, give me a scone.

[tzikeh]

1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top ten results. (Had to post all forty, because dude, it is of the freaky.)

Bold = jobs I currently do or have done in the past, italic = jobs I've considered doing or wanted to do, and strikethrough = things I've no interest in doing. (ETA: I don't consider "jobs" and "paid jobs" to be the same thing. I've done many of these things for no money, but I've *done* them, for real, and that's a job to me.)

Creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, and, well, altogether ooky. This is very, very scary. My first "buh?" hits at #30.

1. Actor (paid)
2. Website Designer (paid)
3. Foreign Language Instructor Tutor (paid)
4. Special Effects Technician (paid)
5. Computer Trainer (paid)
6. Director
7. Desktop Publisher (paid)
8. Professor (if wishes were horses that traveled backwards in time 18 years....)
9. Director of Photography
10. Multimedia Developer (paid)
11. Comedian (every day of my life, baby)
12. Set Designer
13. Costume Designer
14. Makeup Artist
15. Recording Engineer (paid)
16. Sound Technician (paid)
17. Musician (paid)
18. Lighting Technician
19. Critic (again with the every day of my life)
20. Writer
21. Activist
22. Translator
23. Composer
24. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
25. Magician
26. ESL Teacher
27. Film Processor
28. Historian
29. Print Journalist
30. Coach -- aaaaand here's the BUH?
31. Curator
32. Judge
33. Planner -- This is too vague to answer. Planner of what, exactly?
34. Anthropologist
35. Criminologist
36. Correctional Officer -- again I say BUH? Though if I could be this guy, that would be cool....
37. Sports Official BUH?!
38. Mediator Hee. Hee hee. HAHAHAHAHAHA!! *snif* hee....
39. Quality Controller -- What kind of quality, and how much control?
40. Sign Maker

I'm-a skeered. Hold me.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_abulafia/]

You were a professional magician? Awesome.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Well, it doesn't say *professional*, it just says job I've done. And I did some close-up magic and some fire-eating in my teen years. Yay circus training!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_abulafia/]

Fire eating!

How about a little FIRE, Scarecrow!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

:D Fire-eating is way way easier and less dangerous than it looks. That whole thing about cutting off oxygen to a fire? Pretty straightforward if you close your mouth around it. Penn Gillette from Penn and Teller explains it best:

You've got moisture in your mouth, and all that moisture has to evaporate from any given part of your mouth, before that part will burn. So you learn how to handle the burning vapors, then you gotta make it look good. Now once you've got a lot of saliva in your mouth, you rub your lips right along the cotton (wadding that's sewn to the baton and coated in lighter fluid) and pull that vapor off. Now the vapor's still burning, but if you breathe in a little bit, the audience can't see it, so you've got a beautiful surprise there. The you just wait until the time is right an just let it flow, like it was magic smoke. Then when you want to put the fire out, there's a move for that, too, and it's the move that gives it the name "fire-eating." Now, you're not actually eating the flame, but I guess they figure that "Oral Fire Extinguishing" didn't sound that butch. When you feel your mouth drying out, you close your lips tightly. That cuts out most of the oxygen, and the fire goes out. Now when I was being taught this, I got burned every time I tried it, and I still get burned occasionally, but the burns you get from fire-eating are for the most part extremely minor. They're the kind of burns you get--you know what I'm talking about--when you eat a pizza too fast, and that cheese'll snag you, or you gulp some hot coffee. Now I'm not trying to snow you. I'm not talking mind-over-matter jive. There's no such thing, it just hurts like holy hell. But it's not dangerous.

It also helps not to be afraid of fire. *That* was actually the hardest part for me.

[pun.livejournal.com]

Same thing happened to me. The first 8 out of 10 were jobs I've either held or considered pursuing. And many more were like that or things that I would indeed love but aren't really possible. (Like professional athlete)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Pretty amazing. I think that the test is more about how honest you are with yourself about what you truly do and don't like than it is about perfect careers, but I guess those things go hand-in-hand.

[deaver.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's super acurate. Mine was wildly not so. And because mine was so not even int he same realm as my current job I have completely freaked out all my co-workers with the possibility that I will now run off and try any of the 40 random possibilities!