#Personal

For my first 19 years of life, I had a very structured outline of how I would conduct my life. I did well in school, made some great friends, had some incredible and terrible experiences, and basically followed the plan. I spent my entirety of high school choosing a career, bouncing between law, medical, finance, finally resting on cybersecurity within the military. I come from a low income family and to make a long story short I can expect no financial support from my parents. After high school I worked and invested to go on a religious mission, which I did. After my experiences there I found myself once again doubting my career choice. I come home to nothing, having spent basically everything I had. I lived in my friend's parent's office space for a few months, got a job at a restaurant, and moved into a different place where I rented a room. I started college and have been trying different careers since. My mother expects me to finish college, as when my great grandfather passed he left all the money he had for me and my sister's education. It would be enough to cover about 3 years at a state college which is an incredible gift. As a result of this gift, I want it to be spent in the best way possible and so I dove deeper into trying to make a decision. I joined a cybersecurity program on campus while working three other jobs and still at school, trying to support myself, get educated, and decide on a path. Honestly, all that came out of it was a feeling of dissatisfaction. I've gotten my own place now, still work at the restaurant as a server and have started investing in my future. College only made me more angry at our education system and its stupidity, working all this much has frankly burnt me out, and I'm still no closer to a real decision. Some say focus on passion, which if I went with would be to major in religious studies and become a professor. Unfortunately for that path, there is no real money at the end of that rainbow and I'd likely hate the school I work at. Teaching would be incredible and I find it extremely rewarding but not at an American school. Then some point to money and say just to make as much money as possible, then do your passion. Which I'm like, "ok that makes sense." But then you look at stories of success and nearly every one of them tell you that if you just go in for money you're gonna hate yourself and likely not succeed anyway. Which I'd rather not do. So then you get right back at education. Keep getting educated and trying to find a career path, although I could be wasting the precious few funds I have on something that I'm not likely to get much back from that I couldn't do myself. If my American history class is literally a study of the Constitution, I can read wikipedia. I own a copy of the Federalist Papers, I can be educated on these topics without spending all this money. Unfortunately, self-education has little in the way of credentials and modern work life demands more and more often to produce a degree. Now every time I sit down and try to come to a decision, I feel paralyzed by the sheer amount of choice. I know dozens of ways I could just go make money or do something I really enjoy or go for an education. If you've made it this far down the rabbit hole with me, what would be your advice? What's the best way to sort through all the crap without wasting time or money and avoiding hating myself in 10 years.

I got issues with this quiz too, but because a 'neutral' option exists, it ends up superior to political compass on balance as well as due to the depth of the results.

This is my result today, feel free to post yours and to keep updated lists, even with combined plots.

For the record, I think the test is poorly designed with many questions eother leaving only one answer correct or alternatively being worded in a confusing way via 'if' and 'sometimes' etc making it confusing what precisely is being asked.