Career Quiz

I already know what I want to be when I grow up--and yes, I'm practically grown up--but I decided to take a career quiz this morning, anyway.

For anyone who's planning to enroll in a degree program, the Princeton Review Web site has some nifty tools. Not only does the Review offer test-taking help for the GRE, MCAT, LSAT, etc., it also offers tools to find the best colleges, career paths and majors--just in case you're not sure.

Usually when I take these career tests, the results are mediocre and don't describe me all that well--I mean, how can they? They're just tests with set answers.

This one from the Review did quite well.

It said my interest color and usual style are blue, meaning I like to work quietly with as little human contact as possible, but still be supportive to others, and that I'm creative, humanistic and thoughtful. In the real world, that means I'd make a good journalist, editor, professor, writer or PR lady--all of which I've either done (PR and journalism) or want to do in the future (professor and writer). A lot of the other careers in the list also appealed to me in a big way.

You can click on each career to learn more about it. While the descriptions aren't exhaustive, they're fairly clear-cut.

So if I'd come across this list five years ago when I was a scrappy young high schooler (OK, not so scrappy. Read: preppy), my head probably would have exploded from the possibilities. And that's OK. Because I didn't know what I wanted to do, other than something that involved writing.

So yeah, the Princeton Review is a useful tool for anyone preparing for a Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in the near future.

Oh, and this stuff online is free.