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.....What's
Your Ideal Job?, by
Donna Deeprose
ASSESSMENT: |
| 1) | Which is closest to your ideal job? |
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Working with refugees in a disaster-stricken country |
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Running a high-tech start up with great I.P.O. potential |
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Leading a research team in a think tank (topic of your choice) |
| 2) | Which would you rather invent? |
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A faster Internet connection |
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A faster way to learn a foreign language |
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A faster way get people off welfare and into good jobs |
| 3) | If you were stressed out, what activity would help you relax the best? |
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Reading James Joyce's Ulysses |
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Spending quality time with your family |
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A long run outdoors |
| 4) | If skills were no limitation, which team would you rather work on? |
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A TQM team mapping workflow |
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A team searching for an AIDS vaccine |
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An NBA basketball team |
| 5) | What would improve your current job? |
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Opportunities to innovate |
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Opportunities to learn more |
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Opportunities to coach other people |
| 6) | Which vacation would you rather take (sorry, no beach allowed)? |
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A week with Habitat for Humanity (building houses for the needy) |
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A seminar at Oxford University (topic of your choice) |
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A climb up Mt. Everest |
| 7) | If you were a quiz show contestant, which category would you choose (assume you are familiar with your chosen topic)? |
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Great adventurers |
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Great spiritual leaders |
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Great philosophers |
| 8) | Where would you be least likely to invest your money? |
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Day trading |
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An environmentally conscious mutual fund |
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Your nephew's high-risk dot-com company |
| 9) | If you could transfer into any unit in your company, where would you prefer to work? |
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Employee Assistance Program |
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Research and Development |
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New Business Initiatives |
| 10) | What would you prefer to do when you retire? |
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Start your own company |
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Go back to school |
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Tutor children or adults who can't read |
This is a quiz about what turns you on. It's not going to reveal any primordial human drives. But it will remind you of what you really like to do, as opposed to what you think you should be doing. Three categories will be rated in this assessment, and the one with the highest rating reflects your predominant focus.
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Heart Quotient |
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Head Quotient |
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Adrenal Quotient |
Click on the best answer to each of the following 10 questions.
Your answer...