So I was putzing around here a couple of weeks ago, stalling a little on getting dressed and out into the world, and I came across one of those free personality tests that is supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. It's only sort of free; after you've answered about a zillion questions (choosing the least distasteful of several unappetizing choices for each), the site spits out a report with a bunch of stuff redacted. You have to pay to see the ends of paragraphs, and the ones that tell you what you should do with your life are a mass of red dashes--no words at all. Anyway, some of it actually seemed pretty accurate, although I'm still looking for my lucky colors, numbers, and the body parts associated with my sign--I mean, my Personal Potential.
Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential (MAPP)
'Interest in Job Content'
Indri is conscious of existence, meaning, purpose, potential and destiny of humankind, people, and self. Indri is motivated by a self-felt, self-accepted calling to the cause of good, growth, and gain in the lives of others. Influential communication of ideas is a primary way of achieving those objectives. Perception and thinking tend to be holistic and conceptual; i.e., seeing the big picture. It is important to see which of the other traits are interactive with this trait because there can be many interesting combinations. This is a major trait in cultural, intellectual, academic, and creative activities. It includes ideas, concepts, theory, ethics, and values.
Here's what it says about how I relate to people:
"Mentor: a trusted counselor or guide." Indri is interested in and consciously prefers to consider the existence, meaning, purpose, potential, and destiny of mankind, people, persons, and self; with self-felt, self-accepted responsibility to influence and/or cause good, growth, and gain in the lives of all concerned. Indri has intuition and philosophical curiosity that causes an awareness of personality, intentions, emotions, ethics, values, and moods of other persons, and of self. By itself, this is not benevolence. If Indri is highly motivated for benevolent activities, this trait is compulsively central to personal and vocational activities. If there is a lack of personal motivation, then the preference for consideration tends to be more philosophical or academic in nature, but still service oriented.
In other words, I could very easily be turned to the Dark Side, if you were persuasive enough.
Totally contradicting the fact that I can and like to fix things, under 'Things' we have the shortest bit yet:
Engineering activities, regarding mechanics, systems, etc., do not fit Indri's vocational interests.
Clearly they are unaware that I recently installed a new foot peg on AX's motorcycle, and am usually the person in any setting who ends up fixing the toilet.
This is the truest part:
Indri prefers and needs change and variety. Change is motivating, stimulating, and energizing. Indri looks for new options, challenges, assignments, acquaintances, relationships, and even new careers in new places. Indri tires of sameness, repetition, and routine even in activities that were interesting at the start. Once things become routine for Indri, this becomes a motivation to move on to more interesting things.
Read: Jumps ship easily. This is completely accurate; during my twenties my resume was littered with 3-4 month stints here and there between longer stints at the dream factory. But then I don't think that's unusual.
Finally, in the tell me something I didn't know category, under 'Language Capacity' we have:
Indri is highly motivated to consider creative writing and communicating at professional levels. Preferences are holistic, conceptual, imaginative, and creative. "Ideas trigger more ideas" can probably be said about Indri. High motivational levels for this worker trait indicate an interactive combination of literary and philosophical traits. As Dean W. R. Inge said, "Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art." That probably makes a great deal of sense to Indri. Motivation at this level indicate preferences that probably include writing fiction, poetry, scripts for movies or television, advertising copy, marketing copy, teaching creative writing, etc.
Advertising copy? Ewwwww.
