decidedlyodd

Lisa always finds the funnest memes. The login info didn’t work but I found this entry point after a little searching.

What the “Career Matchmaker” says I should do with my life:

1. Computer Engineer
2. Mathematician
3. Computer Support Person
4. Actuary
5. Foreign Language Instructor
6. ESL Teacher
7. Cartographer
8. Computer Programmer
9. Corporate Trainer
10. Air Traffic Controller
11. Computer Trainer
12. Project Manager
13. Biomedical Engineer
14. Mining Engineer
15. Petroleum Engineer
16. Agricultural Engineer
17. Astronomer
18. Civil Engineer
19. Materials / Metallurgical Engineer
20. Electrical Engineer
21. Industrial Engineer
22. Operations Research Analyst
23. Physicist
24. Chemical Engineer
25. Multimedia Developer
26. Professor
27. Mechanical Engineer
28. Aerospace Engineer
29. Land Surveyor
30. Oceanographer
31. Meteorologist
32. Occupational Therapist
33. Business Systems Analyst
34. GIS Specialist
35. Database Developer
36. Web Developer
37. Architect
38. Webmaster
39. Military Engineer
40. Video Game Developer

#1 doesn’t appeal to me that much actually, mainly because I’ve always had a rocky relationship with the design of electronics and low-level computer hardware (bad undergrad memories of EE 42 and EECS 150). #2 is too head in the clouds for me. Done #3 and it’s ok, but pay and respect both kind of suck. #4 is something I never really thought much about pursuing but seems sort of interesting. #5 and #6 kind of surprise me actually. I do like languages, but I was never very good while learning them in school. #7 sounds really cool, mainly because I absolutely love maps. Seriously, I can just look at maps and be completely stimulated for hours on end. It’s one of the few things I (sort of) collect. I never really considered that there might be professional cartographers in the world still. Obviously, #8 is what I currently do, which is well within the margin of error I suppose #9 is something I’ve vaguely considered in the past since I really like teaching. #10 sounds way too stressful.

#14/15/19/24 is generally what I thought I wanted to be when I was 17 and applying to college. I wanted to be #26 for a while, but it didn’t work out. Search through past blog entries while I was in grad school if you didn’t know me back then. I’ve done #36 and #38 in the past. I turned down a job doing #40 to work for Microsoft as #8 instead.