Career Exploration and Planning Day One

I'm in the day one of the Career Exploration and Planning Track of the DoD's Transition Assistance Program. We just did the O*NET Interest Profiler again. I'm reminded of what I originally said I would do after the military.

• Church or parachurch ministry
• Education
• Government Service

And I think it was in that order. I've also been thinking about law lately, but if I did that, it would fall into government service. Now church ministry doesn't seem to be a viable option, and I've been thinking a lot more about psychology and social work. So I guess now the list is

• Psychology/Social Work
• Education
• Government Service

So I guess the list hasn't really changed that much, but that's still pretty broad. 

I went through the Profiler when I went through the main TAP workshop back in November. It was actually the same person leading it too--Kasey Kobs. Back then, my top three were conventional, artistic, and social. This time they were conventional, enterprising, and social. She asked us to write how we saw ourselves on the blackboard before we started, and I wrote conventional, investigative, and social. So two out of three seem to be set in stone. I'm wondering if I can put in my own numbers and see what it shows me. Let's check...

I didn't figure out how to plug in my own numbers, but I did see what jobs it showed for just investigative, and they were pretty much all academic research type jobs, which strangely doesn't appeal to me. Mostly because I think there are lots of different academic research areas, and a lot of them aren't interesting. Oh and doctors. Research scientists and doctors. So that's funny, because I always thought of myself as a researcher, but maybe not so much.