I couldn’t resist doing this one.

1. Go to Career Cruising
2. Put in Username: nycareers and Password: landmark
3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions.
4. Post the top ten results

I’m posting all 40 results. Not a one of them is at all surprising. In fact, many of them are SO not surprising, I am highlighting in bold the ones I have already called “job” at some point in my life or am otherwise actively doing or have done (but not necessarily gotten paid for doing).

1. Website Designer

2. Desktop Publisher

3. Judge

4. Criminologist

5. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator

6. Animator

7. Actor

8. Multimedia Developer

9. Anthropologist

10. Director of Photography

11. Costume Designer

12. Set Designer

13. Political Aide

14. Casting Director

15. Activist

16. Civil Litigator

17. Criminal Lawyer

18. Lawyer

19. Comedian

20. Computer Animator

21. Critic

22. Artist

23. Public Policy Analyst

24. Graphic Designer

25. Musician

26. Writer

27. Print Journalist

28. Corporate / Commercial Lawyer

29. Market Research Analyst

30. Lobbyist

31. Communications Specialist

32. Politician

33. Composer

34. Medical Illustrator

35. Special Effects Technician

36. Translator

37. Fashion Designer

38. Paralegal

39. Video Game Developer

40. Legal Secretary

And now we see why I have ended up being a starving artist/writer/housewife. It’s not likely I will ever be able to go back to school for a law degree (which I would love to do), and I have already done or dabbled in all the others … and just try getting a real, paying job in any of those fields. Yeah, not so easy. LOTS of competition (and I suck at selling myself). I guess, in the end, this is telling me that even though I don’t have an income to count on (I still do odd artsy/craftsy/writing jobs here and there), I am actually doing exactly what I am “qualified” to do.

Just wish being an artist/writer/housewife with a silly sense of humor paid better!