# Career Test

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/career-test/508706>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 3, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/career-test/508706 "2009-09-03T01:18:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/career-test/508706/1 "2009-09-03T01:18:00Z")

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Are there any Internet tests to see which career would be good?

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/career-test/508706/2 "2009-09-03T01:42:17Z")

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I dunno about online, but I had to take one of them when I applied at the local junior college to get some useful job skills after getting my BA. I knew it about nailed me when the counselor looked at the results and asked, “Are you sure you don’t want to be a permanent student?”

“Yeah, but the money’s lousy.”

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**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/career-test/508706/3 "2009-09-03T02:29:07Z")

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The Kuder Inventory is a career interest test with a lot of data to support it. I took a paper version back in college for my psychology class in testing and measurement.

#1 Bookstore manager  
#2 Librarian  
#3 Psychologist

I totally agree that I would love managing a bookstore, but nobody seemed to have told them that the business model would be falling apart.

Still, they’ve kept their stuff up to date and have an online, although not free ($35), version: [http://www.kuder.com/](http://www.kuder.com/)

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/career-test/508706/4 "2009-09-03T02:34:05Z")

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I’m not sure why you chose to put this in Cafe Society. Moved to IMHO.

**samclem** Moderator