Things to be Excited About

This month has really tested my patience with life. However, I do have reasons to celebrate: Alan's birthday is coming up. I'm planning a birthday party for him and I'm really excited about it. Plus Halloween is just around the corner. Halloween is one of the best cultural inventions of America. During Halloween you get to play dress up, express yourself in unconventional ways, and eat all the candy you want. I especially love the candy-giving part of Halloween. It feels very gratifying to make little kids around your neighborhood happy. When else do you have the opportunity to give candy to total strangers? When else do you get to make art out of pumpkins? When else can you pretend you are a super-hero with magical powers?

Personality Assessment

I am currently finishing an Organizational Behavior class for my MBA program. The class includes writing a 10 page paper about my personality patterns and leadership-style trends. In order to complete the paper, I took 11 personality assessments (half online and half in class). Most assessments, especially the online ones, seemed full of hocus-pocus and were just trying to sell me something. However, there are definitely some interesting trends that emerged from all the assessments. For example, I apparently should have focused my career on becoming an engineer, or joining the military, or become a farmer. These career options were a pretty consistent trend among many of the assessments.

I don't know how those three very different careers kept coming up on my assessments, but they make sense. After all, I still have my dream of owning a miniature-cow farm one day.

Some of the free online assessments I took are here, at Quintessential Careers.