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When did you know a career was either the perfect or the worst match for your personality? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm trying to give someone advice on choosing a career that will suit them better than the one they're in and hate. I wanted to get together a list of good questions for them to ask themselves so they can use the answers to compare options like "do you prefer to work sitting or moving around," "do you want to not work weekends" etc.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well certainly not the career aptitude testing in high school, which put me in ministry (the religious kind), philosophy, or military.

I was a cashier at a bunch of places and kept ending up working in the back office, then developing ways to do the bookkeeping on the computer (this was so long ago they were using paper ledgers). I did accounting systems for years, but doing accounting now, with coworkers I like.

I would not call it a passion but an aptitude. And as my former boss says - so much better to have a job you don't love with great coworkers, than a job you enjoy with people you don't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This kind of test told me I should be a librarian. Needless to say I am not that today and it would have been too boring (as a career no less) .

People don't know shit and cannot tell you what is best for you. Even bosses and so on have no idea and you need to tell them what you would like to do for your development.