Spontaneous Idealism

I’m trying to find my perfect career…or at least something I’ll be good at that will pay me some money, so I’ve just taken an online personality test to see what jobs I could do that aren’t teaching.  It didn’t particularly offer any specific career paths, but it did come to the conclusion that I’m a ‘spontaneous idealist’.

As one of my many ‘skills’ is apparently reading between the lines, I’m going to decipher what this says about me.

According to the test, I’m ‘creative, lively and open-minded’.  OK; not sure about the ‘creative’ bit, but I’ll go with the other two (most of the time, anyway.  Depends on amount of sleep, usually).

I’ve got a ‘zest for life’ and ‘enjoy being with others’.  If that’s not inferring that I’m a p***head, then I don’t know what is.

I am ‘a master of communication’.  In other words, as my Gran has been telling me since I was three years old, ‘a chatterbox’.

I am a ‘keen and alert observer’.  Read ‘nosy’.

I’m ‘oversensitive’!  Oversensitive?  Who do they think they are, criticising me like that and trying to ruin my life with accusations that have no foundation whatsoever?

I become…erm.  I become…just hold on a minute, someone’s just sent me a text.  What am I going to make for tea?  I really need to put the recycling out.  Sorry, where was I?  Oh yes, I become bored easily.

I ‘don’t like accepting a subordinate role’.  Just ask my husband about that one.  (Alright, nudge, nudge, wink, wink if you want to take it into the gutter.)

I like to be surrounded by ‘a colourfully diverse group of people.’  Ah, what a sweet and tactful way to describe my friends 😀

I ‘need to receive positive feedback and recognition like other people need air to breathe.’  So pay me compliments or I will cry like a baby.

‘Variety, challenges and fun are important ingredients of [my] area of responsibility’.  Yep, can’t disagree with that.  On the other hand, ‘too much routine, too much detail work and the necessity to stick with one project for a long time is not [my] thing.’

So, in conclusion, I’m a nosy, touchy, talkative narcissist who drinks too much, gets easily distracted, can’t take orders and won’t see a job through to the end.  But at least I’ve got nice friends.  Hmmm, can’t imagine why I’ve not been snapped up yet 🙂