Many decades ago when I was in my 20's I worked for a company that sent me to a place called The Human Engineering Lab. I don't know if it still exists. It was a place that tested you inside out and upside down and it took all day long. I love tests so I had a lot of fun. They showed me a graph of various professions and how I would do in each of them by my scores. The results didn't really surprise me but I did learn that I had an aptitude for problem-solving. What I ended up being was an Internal Auditor much to my surprise. In school math was my least favorite subject. Who knew?
Here's what was so appealing to me. As an auditor you had to take everything apart and examine every component and figure out which parts were defective. A puzzle that gave a distorted picture that you broke down into pieces and reconfigured once you had analyzed it. I LOVED it. But if you had told me that's what I would be doing to earn a living I'd have laughed at you.
So did what you ended up doing to support yourself surprise you at all? How?
