Who studies at McGill?

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Occupations suit you by your Interest Level

Found an interesting interest quiz on www.canlearn.ca

Here are my results; what's about yours?

Quiz Results

Congratulations, you have completed the Job Futures Interest Quiz. Have a look below at your score for each category. The maximum score in any category is 8, so the higher the number, the more likely you will find occupations in that area that might interest you. Remember, these results are just a guide to some potential careers you might find interest you. Follow the links in each category and find out a lot more about some of the occupations out there.

Occupations by Interest Level

Your results suggest you like working with People and Information. Look here for occupations that incorporate both interests.

Score(8) If you are an information junkie... You have fun expressing yourself through writing, music or art; doing experiments or researching a topic; solving puzzles or problems; or studying or reading. Occupations

Score(6) If people are your passion... You enjoy caring for or helping others; persuading people or negotiating; working as part of a team; or leading or supervising others. Occupations

Score(5) If things are your thing... You like working with your hands; using tools and machines; maintaining and fixing equipment; or finding out how things work. Occupations

What really leads to success

Every lesson at the university of McGill our prof of English, Rick W. Juskow gives us something interesting. Last time, it was a short video with Richard St. John, the author of 'Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky and Rich' book.



Maybe, he just reiterates the golden rules well-known from the fairy-tales about Cinderellas but he does it very effectively.

By and large, I tend to agree with him about the dominant factors that leads to success. Also, I rather support his antithesis against the myths about success: smarts-looks-luck.

I would shorten the magic 8 to the following three:

• love what you do
• be persistent
• be smart

As you see, the latter contradict a little bit with what he supposed but I think it is just because of my slight English misunderstanding .

I know some people who have none of these qualities above but they are rich.

In Russian, we have a funny saying: if you are so smart why not rich?


Having seen this very impressing presentation, I thought about a definition of success for myself. What is it? To become rich? Or die trying? I am not sure...

The only thing I am absolutely sure about is that to write a book is a good way to become rich.