A pair of those ubiquitous personality quizzes.
I just took an online variant of the Myers-Briggs test. The test types me as an INFP (Introvert, Intuitive, Feeler, Perceiver). Here’s some more of what the test had to say about lil’ ol’ moi:
People like you are generally nonconforming, deeply passionate, and highly dedicated to your personal values. You’re reserved, which covers a sensitive spirit easily hurt. You’re highly imaginative and creative. You’re curious and often study others quietly. You’re flexible in small matters. You don’t dance to other people’s tunes, but you can pretend you do. You get what you want by talking, not screaming.
You’re loving and dedicated to people you care about, but you do not compromise your principles for them. Your sense of what is right comes first, even before yourself. You respond best to people who respect your privacy until you let them in, then provide you with emotional intimacy.
You’re not the world’s most tidy person.
Your primary goal in life is to be true to your deeply held beliefs and to live in harmony with your values. Your reward is to have your ideas benefit others.
I’ll buy that. That’s pretty much me. I like getting paid well, but I never really did the Days of Whine and Raises - my salary was towards the median for my profession always, because I knew that this backlash would eventually hit (and now I don’t have to try and make myself re-learn how to live within my means, ‘cause my means aren’t changing.) The test went on to state that good careers for me included human resources professional. Now -=that=- part I disagree with. After what I’ve seen at this place in Burnaby, and what my family has dealt with (mom’s an HR director, and everybody cheer for her - she’s got less than 800 days until she retires!!), the -=last=- place I’d want to go career-wise is HR professional. I can’t wait to get out of the HR group at this place - and I’m just their overpaid underworked HTML jockey, not an HR consultant! ...all right, all right, all right. The test is the Star Trek Personality Test. (Quit laughing, you, or I’ll shoot you with my phaser.) I am compared to Kes and Garak. I could do without the Kes remark, but Garak was a pretty cool character. And no, I don’t live in my parents’ basement. I haven’t even lived in my parents’ house for over a decade now.
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