Cruising careers
I don't do many memes, but this one sounds like fun...
1. Go to Career Cruising, www.careercruising.com
2. Put in Username: nycareers and Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top twenty results
5. Put the careers you have seriously considered in bold
I'm going to put the ones that I've done as part of a larger job in italics.
1. Director of Photography
2. Multimedia Developer
3. Set Designer
4. Costume Designer
5. Website Designer
6. Special Effects Technician
7. Industrial Designer
8. Desktop Publisher
9. Computer Support Person
10. Sign Maker
11. Computer Programmer (my actual career)
12. Technical Writer
13. Automotive Painter
14. Tilesetter
15. Fashion Designer
16. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
17. Animator
18. Security Systems Technician
19. Actor
20. Interior Designer
Computer programmer is my actual career. I've had a computer support position, but it was a temporary stepping-stone... I'd never tolerate it as a long-term job, let alone career.
Note that a quarter of the entries have "designer" in the title. Add in the other creative careers, and there's a strong trend toward my desiring a job requiring creativity... and looking at the list, I realize I reject out of hand any career possibility that doesn't involve creativity.
Oh, and I have a pretty high level of correspondence with my wife's list. Except for the math-oriented careers, since I indicated that I hate math. :)