Today’s post will be more of a general update on things.
Yesterday, I took a RIASEC / Holland Code quiz, which I have done before, but I ended up getting different results than I had gotten years ago.
More accurate results, dare I say.
It seems that way, at least.
My three letters are… AES… short for AESthetic.
It’s official now.
The three letters stand for Artistic, Enterprising and Social. These letters are my top three letters of the six… letters…
And I’d like to mention my thoughts on the summaries given… hopefully it’s okay for me to quote.
The results are from the UCAS Careers Quiz. Here, give it a shot if you’d like:
Anyways, I’ll be quoting… in… short… bursts… while adding comments in between…
Artistic
“Creatives who often rebel against rules and structure.”
Okay, um… I’ll take the compliment. This doesn’t sound good nor bad, if you think about it. Maybe more good actually.
If we didn’t have anyone to rebel, then things wouldn’t change; wouldn’t improve, right?
But yeah, I’d love to call myself a creative. And there’s a memory that comes to mind, relating to this whole idea of rebelling against structure.
This was a few years ago, when I was speaking to this lady at my secondary school. I won’t share any personal details of hers besides the fact that she used to be present in my classes as the teacher’s assistant.
This is relevant because she would have known about what sort of person I was, how I behaved, and so on.
I believe that “teacher’s assistant” would be a good enough term to use.
Anyways, some time after she’d moved up to a different position/role, we spoke in a room, one-on-one… I don’t exactly remember why.
But she told me that she found the fact that I wouldn’t let anyone change me impressive. I’m pretty sure that’s what she said.
She must have meant that I wasn’t pretending to be someone I wasn’t, or that I was authentic. Or something.
I feel put on the spot, don’t judge me.
As I was saying, she then explained to me that I didn’t fit. That I was supposed to be or become a square, but remained a circle, and didn’t fit the… hole? Sounds weird.
(I’ve just realized circles fit into squares… let’s just say I was “larger than life”, and that my metaphorical circle was too)
I don’t remember whether or not I mentioned this at the time, but looking back on what she said, I realized that school sounds like a machine of sorts.
A machine that we all go through to become the same…
To be used as parts of a machine… and to replace each other, when the other gets thrown away…
Okay, some of what I just said came to me right now.
I’m not saying that schools are terrible, or anything like that… but I’m not saying that they’re perfect either.
I’d just rather remain myself, and focus on improving my strengths, rather than trying to erase my weaknesses.
Trying to reach an equal point as everyone else in the world.
I feel like that came out wrong… it’s just that it’d be harder to find a job when you’re competing against people who have the exact same level of skill as you.
- “Imaginative”
Yes. Any day of the week. That’s one of the best words one could use to describe me.
- “Unconventional”
Different. Nice. Lovely. Hope so.
- “Emotionally Expressive”
Well… back in secondary school, I got called a robot quite a few times. Why? Because I don’t share my thoughts, emotions and all of that with just about anyone (you’re special) and I didn’t feel safe doing that at school.
But heck yeah, I can express all of my e-m-o-t-i-o-n-s… if I feel like it.
“…inventive, open, and find enjoyment in making things.”
Inventive, huh…
“having the ability to create or design new things or to think originally”… “showing creativity or original thought.”
Yup, let’s go with that.
Open? Sesame? Sesa… me?
Isn’t it funny that I’m opening up to you? What a coincidence.
And finally… “find enjoyment in making things.” Gosh… I wish.
That is what I want to do. Make things. I was happy as a child. I’d make things all the time.
Those two pieces of information are probably linked. Definitely.
A creative person who doesn’t create anything just withers away and… doesn’t create.
So yeah. I definitely agree with all of that.
“…prefer working in environments where they can be spontaneous, and can produce work which is inventive and unique.”
Yes. Spontaneity. That lovely thing.
You see… I was planning on writing a blog post about a particular song, and also playing a game that features said song. Today. But I don’t want to force myself into doing anything.
At least not any more than I already do.
Inventive? …we’ve spoken about that.
Unique? Oh, yes, of course!
…aren’t we all?
That was a trick question. Unique means more different than the majority. Just kidding – I don’t get to decide what it means.
But an idea just came to mind.
Okay, let’s pretend that every human is a number. And since every number is different, and unique, so is every human.
…1, 2, 3, 4, 5…
The people aren’t all one number away, some people are more similar, some are more different.
If you view the one as a 1.09, and the two as 1.98, while viewing the three as a 3.01… then the one is more similar to two, than the two is to three…
…like with people.
Let’s imagine that there is this unique person.
This person is more different to the rest, than the rest is to itself, if that makes sense.
…1, 2, 3, 4, 5… 7… 9, 10, 11, 12…
Just like this seven.
This seven is unique. It stands out.
(My brain is going numb. Forgive me for going off on a tangent.)
And I’ve just decided to finish here for now. This is already a really long blog post.
…
Just imagine that reading this blog post is like climbing up Mountain Everest.
You don’t do it all at once.
You take breaks.
If you’ve read up (down) to here, you brave soul, then I commend you.
It doesn’t matter how long it took you, you have my respect.
…
Thank you once again for reading, and have a lovely day.
– Abby
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