Sep. 25th, 2003

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The more I think about it, the more I think I would enjoy contracting (or better yet, Consulting) at this point in my life. I'm tired of committing my heart to new companies only to be disappointed and abandoned. I'm tired of falling in love with a product only to find that product management has lost interest in it before it's even released. I'd like to just provide a service to somebody, give them my best work, know when I'm done, and leave on an upbeat note.

So, I'm looking for tips. Anybody have an engineering-oriented consulting/contracting company they would like to recommend? Or maybe you work someplace that could benefit from an experienced QA professional coming in to analyze requirements, write up some test plans, maybe manage a short-term testing cycle. Or, better yet, design a technical training course (for either customers or internal audience). Networking is my specialty, but I like to think I'm pretty good at picking up the details of almost any technical project and identifying the key concepts (which is the first step in either a training plan or a test plan).
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I've always figured I was an ENTP, and this latest test confirms it. I'm not sure I ever took an actual MBTI before. I just read a book called Myers Briggs in the Workplace with great attention, and by the time I was done with that I had very little doubt where I fit on all the scales. At the time I figured I was a high N, a very high T, and pretty close to the middle on the other two scales. This was shortly after I had been transferred from Software Development to System Test. I've been in Test ever since, and as the years have gone by I've felt myself slipping further and further down the scale from N to S (from abstract to concrete, more or less). I still LIKE theory, but when you're a tester you get really tired of hearing theoretical reasons why the bad behavior you're reporting isn't really a bug, and the next thing you know you're snapping, "Look, it either works or it doesn't. I don't care why you coded it that way!" Sure enough, I seem to be much closer to the middle of that scale than I used to be. There is, I believe, some controversy in Myers-Briggs circles about whether scores can change over a lifetime or whether they should represent inborn, unchangeable temperament. I believe that basic temperament is inborn, but personality changes over time, and the MB measures both.

Anyway, here's my score:

ENTP - "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 5% of the total population.

Extroverted (E) 52.78% Introverted (I) 47.22%
Intuitive (N) 52.94% Sensing (S) 47.06%
Thinking (T) 75% Feeling (F) 25%
Perceiving (P) 58.06% Judging (J) 41.94%

And here's the link: Take Free Myers Briggs Test

Incidentally, what I REALLY want everybody who takes this test to report is: how did you fill in that field on the first page asking you to "Write a uniquely relevant test question which would identify someone with your personality?"

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