So after having the photographer out yesterday from CareerCruising.com, I thought I’d dig into their site a bit and see if cartooning was indeed the right job for me.
I answered somewhere between 75 and 100 questions and (drum roll please) …
Yep! It works! Pretty well, really. I’d say it nailed me fairly quickly.
Here are the factors that apparently mattered the most:
After reading through the job description, earnings and working condition portions of the site, I’d say they have good realistic info on cartooning as a career as well.
Boy, this stuff’s come a long way from when I was in high school.
I remember filling in little dots and having them calculated some weeks later into a list of careers that might suit me. Tops on that list? Dancer and garbage man.
When I was halfway through college I took one of those long aptitude/vocational tests. I scored high on the creative side (I was a trumpet performance major at the time and loved to draw and write, eventually switching to journalism). I also value organization and systems and schedules, so I scored high on whatever the test-makers considered to be on the opposite spectrum of creative (because surely all creative types must be disorganized and irresponsible!) The guidance counselor had a little book that gave occupation suggestions based on the test-taker's particular results combinations. For many of the more typical combos, there were dozens of occupations listed. For mine, there was one: fur designer. The counselor looked embarrassed when he saw this. "Well," he shrugged, "these things aren't always accurate." That was one wasted Thursday morning!
Fur designer? Wow, that's an odd one.
For the record, I'm a fairly organized creative myself. And it's nothing to be ashamed of.