What is your ideal career?

[Mich the Tester]

I wouldn't pay someone to be Mr Boasty McSmugs.

I can't boast with my tongue sticking out like that.

[MaryPoppins]

I can't boast with my tongue sticking out like that.

Deal. Let's get cracking on working our way through the urban dictionary.

[eek]

When you find out what I'm good at and just how good I am you'll be paying me for it.

Well its not testing

[RichardCranium]

Oh dear. A 'personality profile test'.

Another Heap of Wank™.

Fine for children and idiots. Utterly and completely useless for the self-aware, the soft-skilled, polymaths and anyone else with any interest in self-development.

Good for putting people in little, inappropriate boxes and telling said caged pet that this is the only world they are fit for. I.e. permies.

For some years, whenever presented with a personality profile test (usually just 10 f**king questions) I inform the HR tart in front of me that I would not work for any organisation that uses such pathetic and brainless selection criteria.

FFS, we're human. We can hunt, we can nurture. We can kill, we can heal. We can be cruel, we can rescue. We can invent, create, build and destroy. We can all cook, clean, think, communicate, reproduce, travel, imagine, sit, stand, paint, sing, laugh, cry.

We can all do anything to varying degrees. We are, by far, the most flexible and adaptable species on Earth.

Reject profiling. It is a self-imposed cell.

[Bunk]

Oh dear. A 'personality profile test'.

Another Heap of Wank™.

Fine for children and idiots. Utterly and completely useless for the self-aware, the soft-skilled, polymaths and anyone else with any interest in self-development.

Good for putting people in little, inappropriate boxes and telling said caged pet that this is the only world they are fit for. I.e. permies.

For some years, whenever presented with a personality profile test (usually just 10 f**king questions) I inform the HR tart in front of me that I would not work for any organisation that uses such pathetic and brainless selection criteria.

FFS, we're human. We can hunt, we can nurture. We can kill, we can heal. We can be cruel, we can rescue. We can invent, create, build and destroy. We can all cook, clean, think, communicate, reproduce, travel, imagine, sit, stand, paint, sing, laugh, cry.

We can all do anything to varying degrees. We are, by far, the most flexible and adaptable species on Earth.

Reject profiling. It is a self-imposed cell.

So what did you get?

[MaryPoppins]

So what did you get?

[MarillionFan]

some long winded, uninteresting ranty style guff from CUK's own village idiot

Still benched huh!

[eek]

So what did you get?

At a guess FAIL

(it will be INTJ as he shows all the traits of being that).

[Mich the Tester]

Oh dear.

Yep. I always wondered what kind of terrible accident, nurtured, genetic or otherwise, would lead someone to become an 'HR Manager' or a 'careers advisor', and consider them the least suitable people to advise me on what to do with my life.

And of course I am not simply a tester. My 'career' does not define my life or my character.

I am a technologist, an entrepreneur, a scientist, an adventurer, an athlete, an (piss)artist, a hunter, a gastronome, a romantic and a lover of life. Software testing is just a convenient way to bring in some money to do all the stuff that means so much more to me.

[eek]

Yep. I always wondered what kind of terrible accident, nurtured, genetic or otherwise, would lead someone to become an 'HR Manager' or a 'careers advisor', and consider them the least suitable people to advise me on what to do with my life.

Isn't the rule:

Those that can do. Those that can't teach. Those that can't teach consult.