My take on personality tests...

As a highschool student I'm not to sure on what kind of career I want in the future. When I was a kid, I thought I wanted to be a doctor. I thought it would be the coolest thing to do and that it would pay off.

Then I hit a time in my youth where I started to change my mind. I started to research on the process of becoming a doctor, and I was not interested in the amount of time and studying it would take to become one. After college, I don't want to go study even more years for a career. I just want to start my career right after college. To add on to that, I thought being a doctor would be to stressful and complicated.

I was getting kinda paranoid when I was supposed to select my interests for my future career options for school. What do I wanna do? So, I selected some courses I thought I would be interested in, including Innovation Academy. This would just be my journey into discovering what I would want my job to be. I would just learn about various subjects and see what interests me most.

Anyways, getting on to the topic of personality tests. During my phase of paranoia, I was taking personality tests, hoping that it would guide me to my future. I gave it a shot and got the results. I based that on my future career interests.

Some of the careers the test reccomended were interesting, but I was not in love with them. Well, whatever, right? Anyways, last week, I was done with my homework and bored outta my mind. I decided to retake this personality test thing. This is when my true hate was born towards these personality tests. I got different results....

I was kinda angry when I got these results. For months I had relied on the past results and thought that it would define me as a person for life. This is when I realised that people change overtime. Its amazing how I got completely different results as of now. Making the decision on what career I want in the future, at such a young age, shouldn't happen.

Maybe what I am saying shouldn't be applied to every one, but I believe it should apply to some people. Don't take a simple online test, and use it to define who you are forever. Use it to define where you are at, as a person. Skim through the results, do you want to change something? There were certainly some bad habits I had that I wanted to change as soon as I started my new school year. Some of them have been changed, and they have changed me as a person.

Projects in the Innovation Academy have changed my perspective on education, and they have changed me a bit as a person. I am not saying that you should change your personality, but I am saying if you have "bad" habits, changing them could definately make you a slightly different person.

To finish up, I would just say that people shouldn't think personality tests define them as a person. I see the test as something to show you where you are as a person. Its your choice on whether you have any habits that you need to change that gave you the results from the test. I like personality tests, but I don't like how it makes you think you are someone that can't change who they are. By the end of my years of studying, I absolutely know I'll have new perspectives on things. From now on, I'm gonna be taking these personality tests every month to see where I am as a human being. I hope that I find my true interest for a career before my years of studying ends.