Education Thread

[ZoraxDoom]

If you want a quick 'ideal career' thing, you could try this:

Discover Your Perfect Career Quiz | Monster.com Career Assesment Tests


I am an ESTJ, my ideal careers are:

* Business executive
* Military officer
* Chief Information Officer
* Sports merchandise sales
* Paralegal
* Real estate agent
* Budget analyst
* Administrator: healthcare
* Database manager
* Corporate financial attorney
* Pharmacist
* Credit counselor
* Insurance agent
* Teacher: trade, industrial, technical
* Property manager

Military Officer...hmm...

 

[Skater]

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  [*]Special education teacher
  [*]Alcohol and drug addiction counselor
  [*]Diversity manager / trainer
  [*]Speech / language pathologist
  [*]Career counselor
  [*]Therapist
  [*]Director of religious education
  [*]Editor / art director
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[ZoraxDoom]

All sound like things you would like...no Maths!

 

[Skater]

They can forget about RE dude though, no way am I gonna teach religious crap to kids.

Maths = evil. I, again, just don't see how ANYONE could enjoy it. WHY would anyone do it when they don't have to?

 

[ZoraxDoom]

They can forget about RE dude though, no way am I gonna teach religious crap to kids.

Maths = evil. I, again, just don't see how ANYONE could enjoy it. WHY would anyone do it when they don't have to?

Because they enjoy puzzles and problem solving? They like trying to find solutions that others can't see? They like trying to apply their knowledge to deciphering clues and arriving at a conclusion?

 

[barmyarmy]

The trouble with the quiz you posted is that it wants you to pigeon-hole yourself whereas most people are a combination of introvert/extrovert, sensor/intuitive etc.
Anyway having been split on every single one as to which to choose I got:

Lawn service manager

 

[Leicester Fox]

* Chief Executive Officer
* Network integration specialist
* Management consultant
* Franchise owner
* Financial planner
* Real estate developer
* Marketing executive
* Intellectual property attorney
* Investment consultant / planner
* Economic analyst
* Chemical engineer
* Educational consultant
* Judge

Judge made me lol, I'd love to get Gerrards case. Fairly accurate jobs there aside from the chemical one which I would hate

 

[Animator!]

Hahah, I got exactly the same.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Oh, and about teaching Religion - you do realise the main aim of Religion is not the Gods and Prophets and all that, but the lessons that are taught by them instead? For example, in Hindu religion, all our Mahabharats and Ramayarn and all these religious stories and told to us not so that we know the names of these Gods and their family links and their abilities or anything, but so we learn the virtues of Honesty, Faith, love for your Family and Friends, the values of Bravery and doing what is right even if you are outnumbered. In the Quran, there is so much more than just the lives of Prophets and Allah, it is all about their teachings. A lot of the stuff mentioned in the Quraan relating to how your lives should be lived -The Prayers, preperation of food, sanitation procedures- all have been proved to actually, directly improve your standard of living. They provide direct health benefits, and were noted down and passed along before science discovered it.

And then there is the aspect about Religion giving people something to believe it. Giving them confidence in what they do, cause they know someone is watching over them, who would give them a hand if they slip, and who is happy if they just do the right thing, even if the results don't come. Gives them the will to go on. What is wrong in that?

ZoraxDoom added 1 Minutes and 7 Seconds later...

The trouble with the quiz you posted is that it wants you to pigeon-hole yourself whereas most people are a combination of introvert/extrovert, sensor/intuitive etc.
Anyway having been split on every single one as to which to choose I got:

Lawn service manager

Yea, I agree. I really only got split on Extrovert/Introvert. I was able to pick for the other three.

 

[Skater]

Because they enjoy puzzles and problem solving? They like trying to find solutions that others can't see? They like trying to apply their knowledge to deciphering clues and arriving at a conclusion?

We all like doing that but that's not maths. You seem to have a very different idea of maths.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

We all like doing that but that's not maths. You seem to have a very different idea of maths.

I've done O level Maths too. And AS level. It is exactly that. Trig, Circle Theorems, Algebra, all just tools needed to solve the problem. Nothing else.

 

[Skater]

I've done O level Maths too. And AS level. It is exactly that. Trig, Circle Theorems, Algebra, all just tools needed to solve the problem. Nothing else.

Algebra = useless crap. I will never go into a shop and replace the number of apples I have in my bag with 'X'. Don't need it. Pretty much the same with the rest of the stuff.

And how can maths get me so angry when I haven't done any maths lessons since 18th June?

 

[Animator!]

You won't ever use Algebra but there are still hundreds of people who will. Education isn't orientated solely around you.

 

[Jaztheman]

* Chief Executive Officer
* Network integration specialist
* Management consultant
* Franchise owner
* Financial planner
* Real estate developer
* Marketing executive
* Intellectual property attorney
* Investment consultant / planner
* Economic analyst
* Chemical engineer
* Educational consultant
* Judge

Judge made me lol, I'd love to get Gerrards case. Fairly accurate jobs there aside from the chemical one which I would hate

That's what I got. Was torn on few questions, where they should perhaps have a middle option, and didn't really get any that I want to do when older, to be honest.

 

[Skater]

You won't ever use Algebra but there are still hundreds of people who will. Education isn't orientated solely around you.

Well that's where it goes wrong. Teach me what I need to know (addition, subtraction, division and multiplication), then let people choose what to do for the rest.