Color Me a Career

I discovered the Color Career Counselor the other day and thought it was so cool. Figure out the career you're best suited to by picking favorite colors. So I tried it. Amazingly, the results were perfectly right.

I still have a 'real job' and everyone always asks why I don't just write. The thing is, I love to write but I can't imagine just writing. I love spreadsheets and figuring out how to sell products to customers and learning what customers want to buy and I love client meetings (I'm in marketing).

So when the results said that I am a Creator (Nonconforming, Impulsive, Expressive, Romantic, Intuitive, Sensitive, and Emotional) suited to a career such as.....wait...author, it was right on.

But it also said I am an organizer (Self-Control, Practical, Self-Contained, Orderly, Systematic, Precise, and Accurate) who would enjoy writing business reports and making charts and graphs.

It sounds like the two different career paths are diametrically opposed to one another, which is how I feel all the time. I love wearing a suit and running a meeting and I love sitting in a big chair in sweatpants and a t-shirt and writing by myself. I love making up stories and not knowing where they'll take me and I love being able to figure out problems that have concrete answers.

The summer after I graduated from college I was out with a friend and she asked me what I wanted to do. I told her write. She said, "You can't just sit in a room by yourself all day and write." And she was right. I can't. But I can do it half the time and still have a lot of fun.

So what do the colors tell you? Take the quiz and see what you're meant to do.