Comments on: What We Actually Need Is a Sorting Hat http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/what-we-actually-need-is-a-sorting-hat/ Everything About Money You Were Too Polite To Ask Fri, 24 May 2013 04:47:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sallymander http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/what-we-actually-need-is-a-sorting-hat/#comment-34899 Sallymander Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:54:38 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23319#comment-34899 Yep, this is good old-fashioned Communist thinking! My parents got "sorted" into their professions by aptitude. Yep, this is good old-fashioned Communist thinking! My parents got “sorted” into their professions by aptitude.

]]> By: Maeve Gearing@facebook http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/what-we-actually-need-is-a-sorting-hat/#comment-34896 Maeve Gearing@facebook Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:49:39 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23319#comment-34896 @DonnaTheDead@twitter I've done Johnson O'Connor testing! Yes, it's expensive, but if you can afford it, it's totally awesome and interesting. It focuses not on what jobs you should do, but where your talents lie, on the theory that you'll enjoy a job more if you're good at it. @DonnaTheDead@twitter I’ve done Johnson O’Connor testing! Yes, it’s expensive, but if you can afford it, it’s totally awesome and interesting. It focuses not on what jobs you should do, but where your talents lie, on the theory that you’ll enjoy a job more if you’re good at it.

]]> By: BananaPeel http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/what-we-actually-need-is-a-sorting-hat/#comment-34883 BananaPeel Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:51:42 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23319#comment-34883 Oh! Oh! I played violin from ages 10-17ish and yeah, sometimes it was a struggle to get my pinkie to do what I wanted it to. And right now, doing the test, isolating my pinkie to bend it, it required such an effort that it made me a little queasy! Spoiler: I am not a professional violin player. Sometimes I play with a group at church. Oh! Oh! I played violin from ages 10-17ish and yeah, sometimes it was a struggle to get my pinkie to do what I wanted it to. And right now, doing the test, isolating my pinkie to bend it, it required such an effort that it made me a little queasy!

Spoiler: I am not a professional violin player. Sometimes I play with a group at church.

]]> By: Deb of last year@twitter http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/what-we-actually-need-is-a-sorting-hat/#comment-34874 Deb of last year@twitter Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:45:58 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23319#comment-34874 @DonnaTheDead@twitter I've taken a few aptitude tests and they've all ended up telling me I should do exactly what I'm doing now. Except I don't want to do it anymore. But I am good at it, so the tests were partly right, I suppose. @DonnaTheDead@twitter I’ve taken a few aptitude tests and they’ve all ended up telling me I should do exactly what I’m doing now. Except I don’t want to do it anymore. But I am good at it, so the tests were partly right, I suppose.

]]> By: Michelle http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/what-we-actually-need-is-a-sorting-hat/#comment-34869 Michelle Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:11:38 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23319#comment-34869 Yeesh, that ballet mom sounds like a nightmare. Yeesh, that ballet mom sounds like a nightmare.

]]> By: readyornot http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/what-we-actually-need-is-a-sorting-hat/#comment-34866 readyornot Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:32:13 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23319#comment-34866 @Quinn A@twitter Oh, I was thinking that a spy was an agent, probably why I could count myself with Logan being confused. You just mean an informant? I still feel like they'd want to put some sort of filter on to ensure they were getting accurate information, not just saying something to be paid. @Quinn A@twitter Oh, I was thinking that a spy was an agent, probably why I could count myself with Logan being confused. You just mean an informant? I still feel like they’d want to put some sort of filter on to ensure they were getting accurate information, not just saying something to be paid.

]]> By: Quinn A@twitter http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/what-we-actually-need-is-a-sorting-hat/#comment-34865 Quinn A@twitter Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:10:46 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23319#comment-34865 @readyornot Not sarcasm! Debt is not a good thing if you want, like, a good job with the federal government wherein you deal with sensitive material. I couldn't do my current job if I had failed the credit check. But to be a spy? Honest to God, the CIA does not give a shit why you want to do it. They wouldn't hire you to be an agent, I don't think, but they pay desperate people for information all the time. @readyornot Not sarcasm! Debt is not a good thing if you want, like, a good job with the federal government wherein you deal with sensitive material. I couldn’t do my current job if I had failed the credit check. But to be a spy? Honest to God, the CIA does not give a shit why you want to do it. They wouldn’t hire you to be an agent, I don’t think, but they pay desperate people for information all the time.

]]> By: DonnaTheDead@twitter http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/what-we-actually-need-is-a-sorting-hat/#comment-34849 DonnaTheDead@twitter Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:10:18 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23319#comment-34849 I was just out to dinner with friends and was saying pretty much the same thing. I just want to take some personality and aptitude tests and get sorted into a job. One of the ladies I was out with started telling me about this place - http://www.jocrf.org/. Lo & behold! It is pretty much a scientific, grown up Sorting Hat. The big downside is that the full testing runs around $600, which, is I had that kinda money to spend on things other than rent and bills, I would consider myself to be doing pretty good, at least in comparison to my current sitch. Anyhow, I am finally transferring from my beloved little community college to big girl University, and I have no idea what to tell people when they ask me what my major is going to be, as that is heavily influences by what grad program I would like to go into later on. I;m thinking of asking for contributions towards this for my upcoming birthday. Because really- the best thing anyone could give me is some help in figuring out what the hell I'm doing with my life! I was just out to dinner with friends and was saying pretty much the same thing. I just want to take some personality and aptitude tests and get sorted into a job. One of the ladies I was out with started telling me about this place – http://www.jocrf.org/.
Lo & behold! It is pretty much a scientific, grown up Sorting Hat. The big downside is that the full testing runs around $600, which, is I had that kinda money to spend on things other than rent and bills, I would consider myself to be doing pretty good, at least in comparison to my current sitch. Anyhow, I am finally transferring from my beloved little community college to big girl University, and I have no idea what to tell people when they ask me what my major is going to be, as that is heavily influences by what grad program I would like to go into later on. I;m thinking of asking for contributions towards this for my upcoming birthday. Because really- the best thing anyone could give me is some help in figuring out what the hell I’m doing with my life!

]]> By: TARDIStime http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/what-we-actually-need-is-a-sorting-hat/#comment-34848 TARDIStime Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:07:29 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23319#comment-34848 I went to school with a kid who'd escaped from Communist Vietnam - They actually kind of do this Sorting Hat stuff there. At about 8 years of age the govt decides who will do what for their careers as they grow up based on test results/examinations of all kinds and that is all they will study to be from then on. This kid in particular studied Classical Piano (he had crazy long fingers and perfect pitch, so he had the physical aptitude for it) and was a technical wizard with a keyboard. Forget asking him to compose, though - rote learning only (creativity: not encouraged for the proletariat). I hear it's particularly rough for escapees who study farming because they're not taught to read or write. School is really hard for them. I went to school with a kid who’d escaped from Communist Vietnam – They actually kind of do this Sorting Hat stuff there.
At about 8 years of age the govt decides who will do what for their careers as they grow up based on test results/examinations of all kinds and that is all they will study to be from then on.
This kid in particular studied Classical Piano (he had crazy long fingers and perfect pitch, so he had the physical aptitude for it) and was a technical wizard with a keyboard. Forget asking him to compose, though – rote learning only (creativity: not encouraged for the proletariat).
I hear it’s particularly rough for escapees who study farming because they’re not taught to read or write. School is really hard for them.

]]> By: TARDIStime http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/what-we-actually-need-is-a-sorting-hat/#comment-34846 TARDIStime Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:04:33 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23319#comment-34846 @deepomega But what about Lee Whatshisface who does the Quidditch commentary? Or is he just a token black kid for them to put in the Prospectus' "student diversity" section? @deepomega But what about Lee Whatshisface who does the Quidditch commentary?
Or is he just a token black kid for them to put in the Prospectus’ “student diversity” section?

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