Show HN: Career Finder – A quiz that gives you career recommendations

Hah! I'm a big loser!

    Our in-depth psychological assessment shows that you
    might like a career as a cheese taster, scuba diver
    or professional TV show watcher.

To be fair, it does list some alternatives. E.g., I could be a political scientist. But, then, I'd get fired and be downvoted into oblivion.

I could be a user experience designer or an online reputation manager [watch it!], but that sounds far more like a supplier than a job description.

I suppose I could be an epidemiologist. But I'm lazy, so that would only work for really interesting diseases. Gotta stay motivated, don't you know!

I could be an animal scientist or trainer. Maybe that would work if I could be as sensitive as another recently posted author (octopuses). But I seriously doubt it, I being a slacker!

I could be a cartoonist, except I can't draw worth shit. I could be a lyricist or a poet or writer. But that takes talent. Which I don't have.

I could be stonemason or a plasterer or a stucco mason. But, did I mention, I'm a slacker!

Baker. Getting warm. Bread being baked does smell nice. Yeah, that's promising. Except I'm too rich.

I got the exact same results. I suppose this means I'm in the right field.

"artistic thinker", what is that suppose to even mean?

That said, I'll bit, I'd love to know about more of the inner workings of the match. How many possible outcomes are there? How does the scoring working, are they questions weighted evenly? Are the jobs preset for a specific match, or are they dynamically selected based on the questions? How were the jobs profiled to meet the aforementioned criteria? What is psychological basis for the questions and their formations... give me the dets yo.

I've been finding these tests are like a lot of "personality" tests where they're highly dependent upon mood and such, except for this it's moreso a function of "what do you like to do these days?" or rather "what would you rather be doing?" For some people this is pretty stable and for others it changes constantly. The ones that try to match your personality to your career may do a tad better but it's still only so accurate I'd presume. I do like how this isn't really a personality test at all though and just asks what you like to do. Most career recommenders are glorified Myers-Brigg topology tests I've found.

Got business thinker when I've been mostly a software engineer. What's interesting is that on the suggestions list they have technical and/or likely software centered careers like physicist, VC, quants, and actuary but nobody actually writing software or systems as their primary job. Not a single software developer type career listed but industrial engineer and geneticist are higher recommendations with economist at the top? I dunno if the results are telling me that I probably wouldn't enjoy writing code primarily or if this type of thinker shouldn't be writing code.

But really, none of this means you'd be any good at it. Maybe there needs to be more of an assessment of different skills instead of the usual self reporting to contrast with these types of tests.