Hi. Thanks for the feedback. It is so good to read feedback. I really don't want to irritate anyone here. It has been hard for me to step out of my world to put stuff up here. I have always avoided chatting to strangers. But you all seem to be so neat. And because of what I do all day I have a hard time holding back when I realize I know a web site with info that might be helpful.I can't stop responding. I spend most of the day on the internet finding information about Careers for students who ask me for help. I get asked all kinds of questions and I guess I can't stop myself from finding answers. I keep in touch via email with the other CIA's across our city and we constantly network information. So you understand I am a bit obsessive and perhaps I must learn to stop browsing when I get home. But hey, I've only been here for two weeks now. I am green and probably irritating. Please forgive me. I can always leave. As the world turns I am last to write at home on my home computer from the north west coast. I see your new writings in the mornings. And I respond at night from home with my cat begging me to stop and pay attention only to her majesty. She has a habit of sitting on the keys and crashing my computer. Her name is Babette. I adopted her from a shelter group in January. She had been abandoned and was starving. Now she thinks she is in heaven. My old cat of 16 died in November and I was so depressed. But then I adopted Babette. And she is a little light in my world. In BC, many secondary schools have Career Centres which support teachers students and counsellors by providing information about the many aspects of career paths such as University and College programs, other schools and training, opportunities for students for government youth related opportunities, scholarship information, careers information and so much more. I can hardly keep up with it. The world is changing so fast. I have an excellent space full of resources as well as five internet connected computers in the centre and my own wonderful little office. I have been doing this for the past four years. Before that (it's a loooong story) I was a working full time graphic artist and an illustrator, before that a liturgical artist and a fabric artist, a children's book author and before that a mom. I am also a grandmother. I work with young energetic students all day long in a huge secondary school. In Vancouver's 18 (I think) secondary schools, Vancouver has eighteen CIA's which means... Career Information Assistants. I am one. We all have a slightly different mandate according to the school administration and the community. Some schools are more focused on tech. Some are more academic. My school is definitely more academic. The BC Ministry of Education (I think) provided government funding about eight years ago to provide CIA support staff in order to provide this assistance in the schools. When I came into my first closet sized Career centre in 97 there were two computers and a bunch of university and college calendars sitting dog eared on shelves. Since then everything has changed and most post secondary institutions have web sites with courses, registration etc. online. I have access to some of the neatest resources online and I have a classroom size career Centre in the new wing of our school. Thanks for letting me know you find this career information useful. I really don't want to take up all this board space jumping in when it might not be appropriate. Here is a neat, and very easy website with another way to look at your personality type and career data that might give you some ideas for exploration. This version of the Holland Code is simple but perhaps useful for ideas. Of course, since I am new, you may all be aware of this information already. But perhaps there are some who might not know about it or at least don't have it at their finger tips.
http://career.missouri.edu/holland/