Did you ever have to take a careers aptitude test at school?

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One which would ask you a set of questions, and then list of bunch of potential jobs based on your answers. I had to take a bunch of them in school, but I mainly only remember one set of results. Except another that included comments of my personality (I think I scored ninety five percent neurotic, oh dear ). Presumably based on the non-technical use of the word:

Anyway, my top results were:

-Psychologist.

Fun fact: I did consider briefly consider this route at one point. However, I was discouraged from doing so. The people in my life didn't think that psychology would be a good fit for me. Remarking that I am "too introverted, lack the sensitivity required, not patient enough, too straightforward and blunt", in addition with "being better suited to work more with services, animals and/or objects instead of people". I once put down psychology for a college taster day (where we'd see what college is like in the subject of our choice). However, my art teacher intercepted, he tracked me down and told me that I "clearly hadn't thought my choices through properly". Then he asked me to pick a different subject, so I picked IT instead.

Sounds like a joke, doesn't it? I wanted to be a psychologist, but I'm bad with people so I joined IT.

-Music Teacher (High School).

Considering that I can't play a musical instrument or read sheet music, this seems a poor career choice for me.

- Historic Artifact & Building Restoration Cleaner. (Not sure what I picked that matched me with this).

- IT specialist and help-desk employee.

Certainly a strange combination. I'm hoping to get a job in the digital media industry. Perhaps a web designer and/or developer, video editor, graphic designer, or sound engineer. Not fully sure yet.

When I was in college, Please understand Me, personality online test . 20 jobs claimed to match. All STEM , bachelor and above. The academically easiest was civil engineer.

Cold f**k

Your jobs come from a wide variety of fields

Well rounded could be a good thing but specializing could be a good thing in other situations


Music teacher sounds random. There are many different subjects you can teach. Where I live , bachelor degree, teaching credential, chest, cset only.


Being a psychologist takes more education and pays more money than high school teacher. PhD. But psychologist doesn't sound like a good match for autistics. Nonverbal communication is an essential part. But everyone is different and I don't know you. And I am not telepathic or precognitive



Historic artifact , not many jobs


IT desk plenty of jobs

I got unskilled laborer but I struggled in lots of skewl subjects due to dyslexia & had NO desire to do further skewling after high-skewl. Plus I was born with various physical disabilities & I never felt I could do anything that was very skilled.

I did. I don't remember what the first result was, but the second one was "butcher," which is hilarious because I am one of the biggest animal lovers in existence, can't bring myself to even squish ants, and at the time I was a vegetarian.

I was told to be a mortician because I like working indoors, independently, in a quiet environment.

I did the test a second time, and was told to be a cruise ship director? That doesn't make sense because it would be outdoors, with noisy people, and cruise ships are my personal idea of Hell.

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Never took one.

It was thought that I had Attitude, not Aptitude

Yeah, I took one. A complete waste of time. The results showed I had an aptitude for whatever I wanted to do, but gave me no indication of what career I should take up.

I took one and it only suggested one job, furniture restoration. The career adviser asked me to do a different test and I got exactly the same result, one suggestion, furniture restoration.

No, but I would probably get something crappy like "English Teacher" when 1. I suck at social interaction and 2 I suck at english. And anyways, the recommendations would matter to me anyway cuz im hard-set to being a mechatronics engineer.

Back in high school, we were forced to do one. Mine pointed directly towards STEM fields, with scientist being the main choice. Since I was planning on going that route anyway, it just reinforced my intent to get where I wanted to go. I was made fun of at the time for my career goals, not so much anymore.

Being from a very rural area, many of my classmates were planning on taking over the family farm once they finished either high school or community college. Unfortunately, changes in the economy prevented some of them from achieving their plans. They had to make adjustments to try to make a living, but not all were successful in transitioning over to a new career path.

lmao I took one and it gave me these careers that I would either 1) suck at or 2) seriously hate

Exactly: I was a great cashier as a teenager but holy cow did I ever hate doing it. I think mine was something business related (why I took a Commerce Degree) yet not only did I not land any business-related jobs, I would have probably hated them anyway.

I've taken quite a few of those tests - they either pointed towards research-oriented jobs, or "hands-on" types of jobs...

A few of those:

- Cook (though i'm a good cook, the pressure of a restaurant kitchen is too much for me...)
- Doctor (Field of interest, sure - but wasn't keen on doing another 15 years of school at that point)
- Astronomy field (Also a big interest for me - again the educational requirement kept me from it. Today, I regret it, though, the field has really taken off since then...)
- Trade jobs - eg. carpenter, plumber, electrician or mechanic... (Interned as an electrician and a mechanic - was disheartened by the often overly macho tone of voice in the field - also, i've never been physically strong, so i'd quickly end up as a target for ridicule)

Though, the last one always stuck with me in a way. I've often been told by employers that i'm good with my hands - but I better like the kinds of jobs where I have to think or be creative.
I ended up in IT, as a software developer on paper - with good hardware skills on the side. I've worked in both of those fields with moderate success, although my straightforward no-BS attitude has a tendency to clash with bosses and others in the workplace that have an ego...

I plan on heading into the field of IT security, probably in a role as a consultant, data protection officer or pentester. While it will be an important field in the future, the business world still has a LOT of catching up to do.
Trust me, i've seen some upright scary s**t when it comes to sensitive data - and consulting does have the potential to earn a good amount of coin

I was told I should be an artist or a performer. It was weird and I didn't like how it suggested a field that is very tough to get into. However, the same test back in the day suggested my mother become a priest and my dad join the army so it's really strange I think and needless to say, I didn't take it too seriously.

I took a second one a few years after high school through a vocational assessment place for individuals with disabilities and it said I should work with computers and data and I liked that result much better. I'm a Computer Science and Cybersecurity major now and I love it.

They gave us a Career Aptitude Test in high school. The part that tested my abilities was fine, even if it revealed that I was not perfect in some areas. That did not bother me. But the part that tested my preferences made me cry - I mean, I actually cried, so loud that the person giving the test came to ask me what was wrong. The problem was that I had no self-awareness back then; I could figure out what each answer would reveal (for example, choosing "likes working with animals" would suggest veterinarian) but I had no idea what I liked or disliked. That upset me. I do not know what the test ended up recommending. And I never had any direction through the rest of my academic and vocational career. Tragically, I finally found out what I might like to do just before finding out that I cannot really work. Maybe sometime in the future, I will be able to fix or find accommodations for the limitations holding me back...

What did you think you might like to do?

I scored very poorly or at least somewhat poorly in the part that tested my abilities. I also disliked a lot of stuff or at least did not have much interest in it.
I took some kinda test for college interests. It was something to help you decide what you might want to major in college. It was about your interests & what you wanted to do & not about your abilities. I only had two suggestions. They were film & radio communications. Film is mostly about directing, writing, & acting which are all things that I know I could never do. I only got film cuz I liked watching TV & movies. I don't know much about what radio communications is but I assume it's a lot of technical stuff & I'm bad with technical stuff. I got radio communications cuz I liked listening to music & the radio & I had a slight interest in DJing. One of my high-school friends was DJing at the community college during our senior year of high-school & it seemed interesting. I did DJ for an online station over 10 years ago for a short time. It was not a commercial radio station. They were no commercials(they were some adds on the site thou) & we could play whatever we wanted as long as it fell in the rock category & we could play comedy stuff as well. I liked doing it but the station got shut down. I'm sure DJing for a commercial radio station that's broadcasted over the airwaves would be very different. I wouldn't know how to get into DJing without needing a degree in radio communications or getting a job at the station doing behind the scenes work which would be a lot of technical stuff that I'd be bad at.