You can lie to you but YOU know the truth

A couple of weeks ago while cleaning out some papers in my closet I found where I had taken a career assessment exam in August of 2007. I remembered how disappointed I was when I took the exam because I wanted it to tell me that I would be an excellent Pharmaceutical Sales Representative. It didn’t. It was about eighteen pages of my personality broken down, and it gave me my top careers, none of them, what I wanted to here at the time. The Narrative Interpretation had statements like: “Meamya is conscious of existence, meaning, purpose, potential and destiny of humankind, people and Meamya is motivated by a self-felt, self accepted calling to the cause of good, growth, and gain in the lives of others.” I was like What?!? That is not a trait for a sales person.

The assessment test listed my top ten ideal careers as, training, communications, marketing and promotion, guidance, spiritual, teaching, nurture, art, design, and creative writing. “It also stated that my perception tends to be holistic and conceptual in other words, I must be able to see the big picture, and it better have a positive outcome in order for me to buy in to it. I found it very strange that two years later, I am doing some form of all of those tasks from home and without much pay. The point I am trying to make here is that you can lie to you but “You” know the truth.