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Scored as an "Artistic Thinker", but there are no artistic endeavors listed! Here's a quote from the synopsis of my test: "You might enjoy coming up with original music lyrics - or with new mathematical theories." However there aren't any musical or mathematical kind of jobs listed - half of them have to do with psychology/psychiatry and another quarter have to deal with tutoring/therapy. About the closest thing to what I actually do for a living, software engineering, is Industrial Engineer - listed at the very bottom. I think you need a little more diversity in the career choices you pull especially for something qualitative like "artistic thinker."

Got categorized as that as well. The suggested careers are pretty good in my case, many of them are ones I'd been interested in reading about, particularly mathematicians, physicists, and medical research.

It took me a long time to realize that art and engineering are not as divergent as mainstream culture would have you believe, particularly when you get into the research side. Every interesting field gets a bit weird as you get into it.

Yeah I know art and engineering are fairly intertwined - it was really all of the medical choices that showed up. I'm interested in psychology but not so much that half of the career choices shown should be that haha.

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