I have this little quirk. I always think that really the system is set up for everyone’s benefit. And I include myself in the definition of everyone. Doctors are there to make me well. Police are there to protect me. The Small Business Administration is there to guarantee my credit. School is there to prepare me for life. Guidance counselors are there to guide me.
Yeah. Well, anyway, guidance counselors use these weird Calvinistic multiple choice tests to figure out what you should be when you grow up. There is nothing so marginalizing as taking a test to tell you how to fit in. Especially, when your guidance counselor looks at the results and shares keen insights, such as “uhmmmm . . .”
Someday, when I’m not writing antisocial BLT articles, I think I might try to use my social psych degree for good instead of evil. I’d sincerely like to try to create a test which would help fucking freaks like thee and me figure out what we want to do. A careers test which would have options like: publisher, nude actress, model management exec, cartoonist, temp, drug dealer, hitman etc. Well, maybe not drug dealer or hitman. Such talents and predilections could productively be turned to more acceptable and longer-lived activities, such as vampire line developer for White Wolf or leveraged buyout accountant.
Maybe I’ll make that test. Or maybe I’ll just complain that nobody else has done it. Sound familiar?
