Maybe this will make you feel better.23468. iiibbb - 1/28/2008 10:19:49 PM
This
23469. judithathome - 1/29/2008 12:19:40 AM
That wasn't hostile! I just happen to think that Meyer's-Briggs stuff is sort of a crock. Sheesh, am I not allowed to have an opinion that differs?
You asked...I answered truthfully and get accused of being hostile?
Let's be sure to avoid the subjects of politics and religion from now on, okay? ;-)
23470. arkymalarky - 1/29/2008 1:02:31 AM
Imo, it has some uses, despite CalGal's (typical) excesses on it, mainly for determining what your own best job personality is. We do interest inventories that are influenced by it, with kids, in helping them plan post-high school education and job hunting. It's when people try to use it as a concrete, objective definition of someone that it's being misused.
23471. arkymalarky - 1/29/2008 1:08:02 AM
I think I was INTJ--IN something, anyway.
23472. wonkers2 - 1/29/2008 1:46:36 AM
At best these gimmicky exercises get people started thinking in a somewhat orderly way about choices they have to make. I recall taking the Meyers Briggs test more than 50 years ago with the result that I my aptitude was to become not a CPA, but a Senior CPA. It struck me as pretty silly at the time, but later I took a couple of accounting courses and hated them. My ultimate career was about as far from accounting as I could get. The problem with these gimmicks is that some people put too much credence in the results.
23473. arkymalarky - 1/29/2008 1:50:25 AM
Exactly. People use them as a detailed map rather than a general guide and one of many tools to help them make career decisions.
23474. Ms. No - 1/29/2008 2:29:58 AM
I think they're a lot of fun, but I'm a weirdo in more ways than one. I tend to score right down the middle with little variation to either side, and depending on what day I take the test I've scored both I and E, N and S, T and F, and P and J. I'm either wishy-washy or freakishly versatile.
Or it could just be that I'm crazy.
23475. wonkers2 - 1/29/2008 3:15:30 AM
The one that said I should become a CPA was not Meyers-Briggs but the ancient Kuder (Cooter, Cootie?) Preference test. I've taken Meyers-Briggs more than once, but I don't remember the results. Whatever they were I ignored them. That's probably why I'm whiling away my life on the Mote and HubPages.com instead of doing something constructive.
23476. judithathome - 1/29/2008 5:29:22 PM
Maybe that's the basis of my "hostility" toward them: I never worked!
23477. arkymalarky - 1/29/2008 6:00:58 PM
Finally have my appointment with the cardiologist today. Bob's going with me to remember what he says.
23478. Ms. No - 1/29/2008 6:26:35 PM
Ah, Bob, beloved notepad. ;->
23479. iiibbb - 1/29/2008 6:38:40 PM
Message # 23476
With that attitude... who would hire you :)
23480. judithathome - 1/30/2008 12:06:48 AM
I'm curious to know what you think is so wrong with my attitude. I know you added a smiley face and so will I...see? ;-) but I don't understand what provoked you into thinking I am outwardly hostile simply because of my remark before. Arky explained exactly why I felt that way and while you might have missed the CalGal/Briggs-Meyers years here on the Mote, they had an effect on me that wasn't all that pleasant and have caused shudders to erupt in me each time I see groupings of letters like the ones you posted. (insert another smiley face here, because I'm really trying to be humorous)
You don't seem to think Arky is hostile...just wondering why I'm being labelled so?
I never worked not because no one would hire me but because I never needed to. No one balked at hiring me, I just chose to be a stay-at-home mother and got rather used to being idle. ;-) Cue the hordes of SAHMs who work their asses off and will say so!
23481. wonkers2 - 1/30/2008 12:46:04 AM
Whatever happened to CalGal, the Wicked Witch of the West? I once called her "My Last Duchess," and she accused me of threatening to kill her, as I recall.
23482. iiibbb - 1/30/2008 3:24:13 AM
Message # 23480
Perhaps because it was a one-sentence reply (in particular the "BS" and "on-and-on") in which I don't have the benefit of your inflection or knowing your past whatever it was with CalGal.
In fact your admit in this post that you have bad memory about whatever conversation that was... well it shows.
Whatever. I personally think it's interesting and gives me a few insights about why I behave the way I do in certain circumstances... I don't know how you could use it to decide what job is right for you. I look at it more from the social side of things.
23483. David Ehrenstein - 1/30/2008 3:26:55 AM
23484. Ms. No - 1/30/2008 8:27:50 AM
Wonk,
She runs her own site -- The Perfect World -- where a lot of former Fraygrants and Moties congregate as well as refugees from Salon's Table Talk and the like. It's a big, active place with regulars you'd know. There used to be a Mote thread there --may still be-- where you could look for folks.
23485. Ms. No - 1/30/2008 8:30:17 AM
Well, thanks for that vision of lovliness, David! I'm sure to have sweet dreams this evening.
