Intelligence

I did a multiple intelligences test last night. I thought I knew myself pretty well, but I was surprised at the results. "The Multiple Intelligences concepts and VAK (or VARK or VACT) learning styles models offer relatively simple and accessible methods to understand and explain people's preferred ways to learn and develop."

My highest intelligence was musical: "awareness, appreciation and use of sound; recognition of tonal and rhythmic patterns, understands relationship between sound and feeling"

Second highest - interpersonal: "ability to relate to others; interpretation of behaviour and communications; understands the relationships between people and their situations, including other people"

Third: - linguistic: "written and spoken; retention, interpretation and explanation of ideas and information via language, understands relationship between communication and meaning"

I think the biggest light bulb moment for me after seeing my results was a career suggestion from a friend. He told me it would the perfect job for me - singing and spending time with people in hospice situations. It fits my top three intelligences. Me thinks I should look into it.

The Best Job Ever

I am at this place in my life where in many respects I am very free. I am not married; I do not have children; I do not have a house or a mortgage; I do not have car payments; I do not have a boyfriend; my job does not have a contract. And in the more immediate sense I am not in any weddings; I have not been asked to sing in any weddings; and no one looks like they are on the brink of death. The only real commitment I have is loan payments. Those can follow me anywhere - even beyond grave.

You can imagine my excitement then at hearing about this. It's being called The Best Job in the World. The gist of it is - you go and live in an amazing 3 bedroom place on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef as the caretaker of the islands. You get paid, they fly you down and what do they want in return? They want you to take pictures and videos so you can blog with them. Ex-squeeze me, baking powder? Oh and maybe I should mention the 6 month position pays around 120,000$. So lets recap - if I got the position they would pay for me to fly down (and give me medical coverage for the time I was there), I would live in an island paradise where they would have a number of touristy things set up for me to do, and I would have to blog weekly about all the beautiful things while getting paid to do it. Can anyone tell me why this would not be the perfect job for me?

The initial application consists of making submitting a minute long video explaining why I am a good candidate for the job and showing some of my knowledge of the Great Barrier Reef and a brief application. Rest assured, when I finish the vid, I will put up here for your viewing pleasure.

Wish me well.

Life (updated, with a big side note)

The side note comes first. Side note on the side note - did I make that up? Is there such a thing as a side note? Or is that a term I invented in my head and use with such frequency that others both believe it and use it?

Ok - so in the past month or so I have found out 3 pieces of information that people should never, ever have told me. The information they gave me is oh, so very dangerous in the hands/mind of someone like myself.

1. One friend told me that when I change my facebook status she gets a text messagey buzz thing to her phone. That's right, every time I change my facebook status her pocket or purse or desk buzzes. Oh the power.
2. Another friend told me pretty much the same thing, but its with emails. He is doing something in construction or landscaping. So I'm pretty sure if I send my emails right I could be responsible for having him fall off a roof or taking his foot off with a shovel.
3. I was also informed that the labour organization for which I am a contract worker, uses Google Alerts. Thusly, when they are mentioned online a dude in Vancouver (I think) gets an email telling him about it. And I am not going to lie, that totally makes me want to embed the 4 letter abbreviation for this organization (to be named later in the post) in random posts that have nothing to do with it, just because I know someone is going to get an alert about it. And does that make me immature, irresponsible, silly, power hungry, a little dumb? Yes, yes it does.

So, a slight clarification on my job. I do not actually work for that labour group. I am an independent contractor, doing some work for them. I'm doing some pretty cool work with some often very complicated documents. The end result will be a lot of good for a lot of people. So I'm actually pretty tickled to be a part of the process. I'm also tickled to be getting a pay cheque - oh to be able to tell Rogers to reactivate my cell...sigh.

Its a pretty sweet deal. I work from home and make my own hours (there some stipulations in there). So I love going to bed at night and wondering, "hmm, what time do I want to get up and go to work tomorrow?" Its all pretty much determined by what else I'm doing in that day. I also love the whole dressing for work thing. I can get up, put on the same pair of basketball shorts that I've been wearing all week, throw on a clean t-shirt and I'm set. Mmm, I also enjoy being able to swear both at the computers and the documents in the privacy of my dinning room. That same privacy is nice when I have to get up to stop my back from hurting and I do crazy dances, or hop on my exercise ball to loosen up.

It lacks a little more sugar (hello pay cheque) and a comfy chair (borrowing one tomorrow) and then I'll pretty much be the queen of contractors.