A Job to Love

An evening on your own is never a challenge. It gives you a chance to plot and to think. It annoys you how some people always just want to chatter.

You like being alone; boredom rarely troubles you.
– You recoil from guided tours and tour groups.

For you, growing up has been all about getting away from people who can control you.

You know you have to be careful where you deliver your ‘lessons’; people don’t like to feel patronised, but you like nothing more than filling in the gaps in the knowledge of others.

If someone made a mistake you wanted to put them right.

When other people get in a panic you find yourself getting more focused; you like that about yourself.

You like it when leadership is earned, not just conferred.

You like it when others turn to you for advice. You don’t just say whatever comes into your head. You want to solve their problems. You want them to be able to trust your judgement.

You feel that work is meaningful because it makes a difference to other people; in some way it brings them pleasure or solves a problem they have and you really like hearing about this. You like the idea of seeing the consequences of what you do in the lives of others.

In make-believe games you like rescue scenarios; someone was going to be eaten by piranhas and you’d pull them back onto the raft (which was actually a sofa) just in time.