I'm with Genius

[kaitou]

While I was up in Michigan for Christmas my dad gave a book called "Now, Find Your Strengths." It's one of those self help/business/soft science books. And Dad usually has excellent taste in those, so I dug right in. It's really an interesting read. It's about capitalizing on your strengths instead of trying to get better at the things you suck at. And there's a little test you get to take since you bought the book and they tell you what your strengths are.

This is where the book lost me. I don't know, maybe it was Dad's hype plus the interesting direction the book was going in, but I was really excited to find out what kind of 'strengths' I have.

According to them my strength is 'Input' where you are good at gathering knowledge on all kinds of things. Well....DUH. I knew that already. I have the brain of an ADD Magpie. Last month I needed to know everything about tea, this month it's the battle of the Somme, next month it'll be soap making. How this translates into a career skill I'm not sure...unless you're Ken Jennings anyway.

So far I've found that I'm really good at:

Gathering useless knowledge
Making things out of construction paper
Telling people about cool things
Organization / Analysis
Analyzing Shakespeare

So I think what my perfect job would be is...Making things out of construction paper to make organized presentations about Shakespeare and other interesting things.

For Extra Credit: What odd talents do you have? How would you make them into a dream job?

Comments

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Weirdly enough, I *have* worked in a job where I used artistic-but-primitive methods (like, say, making scenes in construction paper on a bulletin-board) to explain stuff like Shakespeare, Deep Southern swamplands and Egyptology; it was the children's section in a library. XD So don't despair! Go, seek library jobs!

Seriously? It was a freaking cool place to work; I really loved it most of the time.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, it pretty much confirms that teaching small children in Japan was pretty much the perfect job for me.