Jim Eshelman wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:19 am
Without that information, I can tell from your chart that you are best equipped for survival, exerting effort and
earning your success rather than having it given to you, and probably with making, constructing, designing, and materializing. You like to play with ideas and are generally
cerebrotonic, i.e., driven by your nervous system, oriented more to being on your own than social and mixing. (You may well be sociable, but when stress builds you need to be by yourself to resolve it. Your Uranus-Saturn-Mercury temperament is more solitary or individual.) I'm not sure yet how you deal with authority - it probably depends on your investment in the situation - though your first choice is to be allowed to be self-reliant and self-directing. Still, you love to have your intellect tickled and stretched, exposed to new things, like you're on an adventure quest.
Or something like that... am I on the right track? Your completion of the vocational analysis questionnaire will let me apply the chart assessment to your history and wishes.
I'll make a few remarks on your relationship inquiry in the next response.
Sound on the right track yes.
To help out with your assessment here are my answers;
What sorts of vocation interest you?
Music career. being in a band. I have pursued it and developed it, have done gigs and marketing etc but have never been in a long-term fully-functional band. So conjoining that perhaps with the world of business and finance, not bank- work but owning businesses. I scraped by at maths in school. Not music teacher, not working in a music shop or as a producer in a studio as such but fully functional rockstar- artist.
I've had friends become famous albeit temporarily. One member of my family was quite famous so I always felt astro-genetically entitled lol. Likewise, my sister went to drama school and has had very famous people in her orbit. My first ever kiss with a girl, that girl is now sort of famous (a sort of minor politician who appears on TV news programmes now and again). It's almost like the Gods have gotten involved with my extended social circle. My guitar teacher left for L.A. and got a record deal, a girl I knew at school went on to act on a big TV series, a dude I knew as a teen, likewise. They never sustained fame. My sister wrote a play , the BBC aired it. My cousin, at one time, wrote scripts for a big national TV soap. Some school friends went on to become big pop stars for a short time, had a big TOP 20 hit then broke up.
What kind of work have you done before that you liked? That you did not like?
I was generally unemployed throughout my late teens and my entire 20s but did temporary and/or voluntary basic office work here and there. I worked in a voluntary charity who give free legal advice help the downtrodden, that was admin work. I had difficulty getting a real job. I dind't want to try and get a degree at the time. Hey, it was the 90s. Generation X and all that lol. Those temporary office- jobs were like wearing a straight jacket, generally horrible at the time but long journeys on public transport got me down.
Whilst unemployed in the latter half of my 20s I sort of boosted my esteem by attaining a degree which I did part-time at night, my mother paid for it. It was a Business degree ( not a subject of interest really, i scraped an Economics A level attainment as a a teenager) and I never felt that I had the opportunity to put that Business degree to any use. This initially caused heartache (violins are playing) as my hopes were up,at the time, for attaining to some sort of degree-based career. Think about it, it's a vague degree, not like law, marine biology or geology. I worked in an admin office from 1999/2000 to 2012, generally convenient but grinding drudgery with some fun social aspects. Then I got laid off circa 2012 I think and had to take what was given to me, I took lab work which is not my background at all. That is, I am not qualified for and have no prospect of truly progressing properly. No major educational backgrounds is required, it's all technical. I like to think it's better than spells of unemployment.
It is a lot more stimulating than the admin work, this is working with doctors directly,its weird, I train up the new recrui scientist graduates then a couple of years later they're my boss. Not ideal. I don't want to do a science degree as part of career progression.
Are you already studying, certified, or licensed in a field? How do you feel about those areas?
Please name three or four or five fields (or kinds of work) you want to seriously consider. For each, please give a sentence (just one or two sentences) about what each job means to you (why you feel positively or negatively about it).
I want to be a rock star and work in the world of business acquisition as a side interest. When i say rockstar,not necessarily Freddy Mercury status but living a comfortable existence as an underground- scene and internationally-known artist who isn't really a household name. Although massive fame would probably be cool also. I go for jobs as a compromise to not be unemployed. I took acting lessons,they said i was good but i prefer music.