The View From The Foothills

Stolen shamelessly from Jaquandor:

1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.

2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.

3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions.

4. Post the top ten results.

So here are (ahem) mine:

1. Multimedia Developer

2. Industrial Designer

3. Computer Programmer

4. Interior Designer

5. Fashion Designer

6. Desktop Publisher

7. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator

8. Computer Engineer

9. Video Game Developer

10. Website Designer

Remembering the questions they asked, it’s clear that the folks who put this together have a different notion of “creative work” and “design” than I do. Fact is, I can’t draw worth a darn, which would seem a requirement for a number of these.

(For those who don’t know, I’ve spent the last seventeen or eighteen years working as a software engineer. As to whether I’m well suited to it—well, I’m supporting a family of six, so objectively I’m reasonably successful, and as for subjectively…I do this stuff even when I’m not getting paid for it.)